Blood, Sweat and Tears
This week I have made an executive decision to only write two blogs. I hope this decision doesn’t get me fired, but I have had two papers and two tests this week so you can only imagine how busy I am. This also piles onto the campus wide lust for our week long Thanksgiving break that begins Friday.
My most recent conclusion about Wabash is that we are a campus of masochists. I am busy, but so is everyone else. On Wednesday, I registered for classes. You should here some of the courses that my pledge brothers are taking—upper level Math, Science, English, language, etc. Why do we put ourselves through this unnecessary suffering?
The answer is mixed, but one thing I feel is a main goal of every student here is to have a well rounded education. I will be the first to admit it, but I am terrible at Math. Horrible. But yet I will be taking it next semester as well.
I was having a conversation with Jacob Nettnay about my current math class. He is an Econ major, and he was encouraging me to continue to take upper level Calculus so that the principles I learn there I can use across every subject offered. He stated that the reason we take classes we don’t like is part of the Wabash philosophy, to teach men to think critically, act responsibly, and lead effectively.
Regardless of your feelings towards math, or English, or whatever, you come to Wabash to learn. And we subject ourselves to late nights working to become the educated men that will be successful later on. Blood, sweat and tears go into our education, but no one here would have it any other way.
I will be blogging next week on my usual Monday, Wednesday, Friday schedule, so check back for more. And as usual, email me at jrmartin13@wabash.edu with any questions or comments. I always look forward to them.
Comments
What you go through now is hard and challenging as it should be. But its only the training wheels on the bike of life. When you look back someday this will be the good stuff. The real work comes later. The best part of the work you do now is that someone is going to tell you if your doing a good job or a bad job with the grade you receive. No matter what just give it the good fight to experience it is to learn it. I was a step above math incompetency, but the calc classes all helped to make me the exceptional concrete construction supervisor I am today...... :) Keep up the good work.
Posted by: Schawn Schoepke | November 23, 2009 10:45 PM