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| Q&A: finally answers to brent's questions |
| 08.26.06 (10:16 pm) [edit] |
1. I often question the point of allying oneself with a political party. Under
what circumstances would you vote for a Democrat for president?
short answer: never.
long answer: the democratic party stands for beliefs that I oppose, and
correspondlingly the republican party stands for beliefs quite similar to
mine. I would never vote for someone who doesnt believe the same things I
believe in reference to how a government should be run.
there is a common list of what the republican party believes and is called "i
am a republican because...":
I BELIEVE the strength of our nation lies with the individual and that
each person’s dignity, freedom, ability and responsibility must be honored.
I BELIEVE in equal rights, equal justice and equal opportunity for all,
regardless of race, creed, sex, age or disability.
I BELIEVE free enterprise and encouraging individual initiative have
brought this nation opportunity, economic growth and prosperity.
I BELIEVE government must practice fiscal responsibility and allow
individuals to keep more of the money they earn.
I BELIEVE the proper role of government is to provide for the people only
those critical functions that cannot be performed by individuals or private
organizations, and that the best government is that which governs least.
I BELIEVE the most effective, responsible and responsive government is
government closest to the people.
I BELIEVE Americans must retain the principles that have made us strong
while developing new and innovative ideas to meet the challenges of changing
times.
I BELIEVE Americans value and should preserve our national strength and
pride while working to extend peace, freedom and human rights throughout the
world.
FINALLY, I BELIEVE the Republican Party is the best vehicle for
translating these ideals into positive and successful principles of
government.
I agree with them all and strong like the way the party stands on social
programs and self initiatives and i like that the party believes on small
national government which is fiscially responsible.
2. What did you do during most of your free time freshman year? I barely
remember seeing you unless I went straight into your room.
likewise. well the first half of the year i actually was rarely at rose. the
whole hometown girlfriend kept me away. then later i started hanging out with
other people like dave, nate, and danna.
3. Do you think your life would be different if not for the "cow incident"? I
know you take medication, but besides migraines, what else do you think would
be different?
i actually first took my life seriously lying in the hospital. hearing a
doctor tell you that there is no medical reason why i should be alive really
made me think how lucky i am and how fragile life is. cliche i know. mostly,
i started appreciating my friends more. i realized that life is short and
loving your friends is what its all about. i also started looking for answers
to the god question and found my beliefs. i started to be more relaxed and
have fun, taking the van wilder approach. "you shouldn't take life so
seriously, you'll never get out alive." additionally, i realized that i have
my one life to live and i should live it by giving to others. we're all in
this life together. i beleive in hand-ups not hand-outs. so i find myself
doing things now where i help people, especially to learn and build a better
life for themselves. thats when i first wanted to go into peace corps, which
i am still planning on doing.
4. There are two times in your life when I'm sure you were scared: the cow
thing, and the migraine attack during Greek Conference two springs ago.
Besides these, at what point in your life were you the most scared, and how do
these two events I mentioned rank relative to this one?
well, probably most reciently has been this whole 'what do i want to do with
my life career' deal. its scary to do something for three years, then finally
admit to my denial and realize that i don't want to do engineering forever.
and tell my parents! so finding out what i want to do and mostly carrying
through with it is a bit frightening...
5. Are you planning on hanging out with the Purdue Pikes on any kind of
regular basis? Why or why not?
that is the current question on my mind. you have heard from others just as i
have before i came here the personality of the beta phi chapter. and from
what i've heard from the students here, it's true. when i meet someone new
here and i happen to have a PiKA shirt on they always question it. when i tell
them that, no i was a pike at rose they tell me not to be one here. i
actually had dinner with ben fucking leonard tonight and asked him about it.
he has not talked to them either. he said when he first got here he thought
about it, but didn't want to and knew he would have no time to commit to the
chapter. as for me, currently i want to tell them that i am here. i think i
will offer to help with initiation. as for a stronger involvement, i don't
think that these guys stand for the reasonse why i joined pike-rose. i
realize that i should as a good alumni...(DO IT)...and i have quite a while to
feel out the situation. its just a shame that the chapter here is not up to
par...especially on the G. you should just be proud of iota delta and how
awesome we are--don't let it go to crap. remember the reasons why it was
founded, and don't forget to have fun and phi phi kappa alpha.
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| at purdue |
| 08.20.06 (5:03 pm) [edit] |
i'm moved in to purdue now...i still haven't met the roommate...his stuff is here, but we haven't been in the room at the same time yet. kinda worried...randomly assigned guy. cameron needs to be my roommate...
my internet is still not hooked up in my room. i think purdue is retarded or something...apparently ppl dont have computers here like rose and they dont know if ppl want internet. and it cost $55 just to hook it up...and $80 for a parking pass...geeze. it was better when it was built into the billion dollar tuition and you never realized you paid for it.
well classes start tomorrow...that'll be fun? i'm betting they will be (relatively) easy as hell. MWF classes. seriouly? what do i do the rest of the time? no wonder state school kids are alcoholcs!
oh and i'll answer your questions soon, brent. (welcome back to the states!) something tells me i'll have a LOT of time to think about them.
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| Q&A club |
| 08.06.06 (1:44 am) [edit] |
answers halfpenny questions. if anyone wants to ask me some more...comment. or if you want me to ask you, comment...
So first big question, what was it like to have that “kind” of romantic encounter, not the details of the act itself, but the after effects, do you feel, act, and/or think differently?
-i know what you are talking about, but if you think im going to talk about this in a public forum you are crazy. im not going to incriminate myself. talk to me in private. -oh and im glad you too could ::finally:: have your own type of experice with your own special ::little friend::.
Why do you think you never succeeded at Rose in an Academic sense?
-mostly because i didn't want to. the mind has tremendous power. i didn't want to stay at rose from my freshman year, i enjoyed everything else but the classes. i was too greedy to pursue an academic career which would be productive towards my life. do i regret it? no. i learned more about life than classes could teach me while at rose. so what if i pushed back working after i get out of college for a few years--i'll be doing that the rest of my life. why not enjoy being young for a while if i can? to be honest, i was down right miserable when i came to classes. hated them. one of the happiest days that i can remember is the day this spring when i actually decided to transfer. i remember i was doing some homework-and i just stopped and asked myself why i was doing something that i did not want to do. i couldn't find an answer. one thing that really helped (which it was a little thing that you wouldn't ordinarly thing matters) was when i was sitting in on a signiture that brent was giving to an associate. he was asking what the frosh wanted to do with his life, saying to follow his passion and to be sure what he was doing with his life was what he wanted to do--that is doesn't make sense to do anything else. i thought about that for a while, and it rang true. i guess it was a combination of things though. to top that off, i was having problems with my brain medication that put me into a deep depression over this past year. no one knew and i guess i did a good job at covering it up, but it was bad. (ps i got new medication and fixed the problem) and it was cyclic. the worse i did in class/on exams the less i wanted to do well.
Two part’er. First if you had to be trapped on a deserted island with one pike who would it be and why. Second, same question but it had to be a girl. Keep in mind food and necessary resources are easily available, but there’s a snow balls chance in hell of being rescued.
-first part: a pike. well since you put stipulations on it that i wouldn't be rescued...i hate you...ok, not really. i was going to pick someone smart to devise a plan to get me off the island, but since i can't leave i think what you are asking is who would i want to (and be able to) live the rest of my life (or a 3 hour tour) with if it were only a pike. probably tappy because if that snow ball's chance in hell happened to be a plane..he could fly out....ok seriously....well i first thought someone that i know i wouldn't get pissed at easily and someone with whom i could have indepth conversations. i thought of covele, you, or homan. but actually i decided that i would want to be on the damn island with my little brother. despite my original desire of being closer to my little than voll and i are, it never happened--now its too late and im leaving (ok so im already gone). i picked kowski as a little for his character (yeah, believe it or not ;) ). I know that there is a lot to that guys life that i feel i could help with, but yeah i suck as a big bro. hopefully, i can get to know him as we get older, but not actually on a desert island.
-second part: a girl. so many directions i could take this one. some hot super model that i had sex with all the time? well honestly, i would get bored with that. im probably the only guy in the world that would say that, but its true. i absolutely cannot stand ditsy women (see a copule of posts ago). again you are asking who i would want to spend my life with, so i would want to spend the time with a girl that i could converse with (to give more of a variety of activities than a super model) and be easy on the eyes (props to brent for saying that were not bastards because a guy wants an attractive girl). a girl that is open and honest and doesn't give PMS as an excuse to be a bitch. she's probably going to have to be a republican, too. hehe. conclusively: barefoot, pregnant, and in the kitchen....ok just joking.
What is the funniest experience you’ve had as a result of being color blind?
-funny, eh? i could give you some sad and depressing stories...like how it seriously limits job opportunities...or how everytime someone finds out i'm color blind they always look around-find something green or red and ask what color it is....ok but funny story...thinking...thinking...well there are a couple. to be funny i guess i it must be a story where i make fun of myself and laugh at my own expense, which i am comfortable to do easily. :)
one memory that sticks out is when i had this picture of a hot girl in a santa hat on my computer background for christmas. I put the actual picture and then i put the picture through a filter to show what I see. (just look at it) I had to explain it to a lot of people when they saw my computer. I was explaining to someone and they were completely confused. I tried explaining it again, but they didn't understand. I was confused. They kept saying that the two pictures were the same. I busted out this program that tells what color things are when you run the mouse over it. It said they were the same color too. I was confused. Then **EDIT: big** george told me that he had found my computer unlocked earlier and replaced my background with a picture of the girl twice. I never even noticed. It was funny. Apparently people think what I see as skin color looks like a zombie. Evidently I see hot girls as zombies.
Now microsoft is putting this colorblind program that I talked about into the accessibiilty features into the next build of windows because of me. I rock..(and bander b/c of his connections at Microsoft).
Where do you want to be in your life in ten years?
-oh, the original question that everyone asks. albeit a good question. one must keep long-term goals in perspective i suppose. hmm 31 years old..? well for a long time i thought i wanted to go some place warm, but as sad as it sounds i think i would miss the midwest. so eventually i actually want that wife, 2.5 kids, a dog, and the white picket fence. i want a fairly humble life, nothing extravagant, yet nothing mediocre. a fairly secure job that i enjoy an look foward to spend 8 hours or so a day doing and where i have plenty of room for advancement. yes, im assuming that i can finally get out of school in 10 years. actually probably 4 years or so for undergrad & grad, then a couple of years for peace corps (ive wanted to do since h.s.), leaves me only a couple of years back here to build a life. kinda scary, i'll be old--but i'll be mature enough that i will be fairly set in my ways as a person. A lot of ppl get married young and sadly get a divorce. My parents did that, and i dont want that to happen, so i will be very cautious before i marry. so honestly, 10 years: although it may seem like a long time, i can almost bet that i won't be married; i'll have a j-o-b; and hopefully a nice house with a few acres; and a weimaraner and a leopard gecko. i also want to be an active alumni of pike-maybe not our chapter, but involved wherever i go.
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| PU and V |
| 08.03.06 (12:41 am) [edit] |
so i went to purdue today...to schedule classes.
i left about 20 minutes late. then wabash was closed so i took a detour, and despite living in this city for three years, i got lost....putting me another 20 min late...then i hit construction on 231...putting me another 10 min late...but i managed to get there only 30 min late...ok so i may have sped a bit. well i got a semi-plan for the next 4 semisters. she said i could get out in 3, but i was like why not go the full year? so maybe its a plan...maybe not..? we'll see how the next semister goes to see if i like the direction or i want a different concentration. probably will. :)
i bought V for Vendetta today...definately one of the top 5 movies ever. if you haven't seen it yet...come by and see it with me. its not like i have much to do for another couple of weeks.
-why does life suck sometimes?
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