So, I'm into the third day of school this week, about halfway through the entire course and I've realized a number of things about myself and the school system in general. It .. well sucks... 60-75% of what we're learning is NOT applicable to the job that I actually do for a living. We're learning how to insulate shit for commercial applications, COMMERCIAL. I work with the big boys in INDUSTRIAL. So unless I plan on quitting industrial and decide to slap up bundles of Pink Panther(tm) into people's celings, I'm not likely to ever use this knowledge.
Another thing I noticed is that every day I'm so tired. I get at least seven hours of sleep each night, but halfway through my school day (a mere four hours), I start getting seriously drowsy. Today I did some strategic sleeping where I'd wake up to take notes, and pretend I'm reading my book while the teacher extrapolates and pontificates on the advantages/disadvantages of using PVC instead of canvas finishing. Its all in the notes, why do I need to hear him ramble about the mundane details that will likely not end up on the test? I didn't. So it was amusing when I was sleep-reading to hear the teacher go "looks like we got someone sleeping..." and then me waking up and casually turning the page of my book, it was seamless, oh yeah I'm good!
Tomorrow we're going on a "field trip" ON THE YELLOW BUS! So if you see a bunch of retards thwacking our chests with the side of our hands at Grant MacEwan's main campus, thats us, THATS THE INSULATING GUYS!
I've realized another thing, this course is bloody easy and difficult at the same time. I can get by on only an hour of studying each week and get at least 75% on my tests. But at the same time, I'm falling behind in shop class because I don't like to rush things. I miss 1st year insulating school because we had four or five people who were absolutely terrible and made me look good by comparison. Not so this time around, oh well.
An interesting quote by Roman Kroiter (pioneer in AI research): "Many people feel that in the contemplation of nature and in communication with other living things, they become aware of some kind of force, or something, behind this apparent mask which we see in front of us, and they call it God."
I'm not surprised, Ken and Ryu have been using this power for years. How else would they be able to summon globes of energy to fire at their opponent?
