December 13, 2003
Pomp and circumstance
I went to my sister's commencement ceremony today. She graduated from CMU with a bachelors degree in sports medicine. I was a bit disappointed that the ceremony took place in a room that hard to raise up its basketball hoops to accommodate. Why are sporting event the only thing people gather in large numbers for? OK, that's off topic; i'll leave that for another day.
I had plenty of time to think when not listening to the administration deliver their "welcome to the real world" speeches, hearing the speakers mumble the graduates' names they could not pronounce, and reading the oh-so-cleaver phrases written on the top of motor-board caps. With every one dressed in black processing about, it reminded me of a funeral; the death of education if you will. I guess that's why i have no interest in ever walking. I don't think i could ever say i'm done learning. There is a big difference from leaning and school and learning from actually working a job. I'll think i'll always need time to step away from the purely practical knowledge required at work, and play in the more academic and ideological knowledge of school.
Posted by Matthew at December 13, 2003 11:08 PM