The beginning of the end, finally.
Well, I start school back up again tomorrow. It will be my last semester at Modesto Junior College. I feel like I’ve said that a few times, but this time it really will be. By the end of the semester, I will have finished all my credits to move onto a four year college.
My education is the crown jewel of all my accomplishments, and I’m only half way done. Some days I feel like a douche-bag, being at a junior college for more than 8 years (including one-year while in high school), but then I just think of all the people who don’t even get as far as I do. Who don’t even pursue education after highschool because of whatever situation they are thrown into, or just pure laziness. I like being in school. I don’t like stagnating knowledge.
This semester I will be taking a cultural anthropology class and an astronomy lab class which compliments the lecture class I took a few semesters back. It was one of my favorite classes ever and I’m sure the lab, which is taught by the same professor, Dr. William Leubke, will be just as awesome if not more since I will get to apply what I’ve learned. Hopefully a lot of night time star gazing sessions.
One of my favorite things to do is stare at the frame in my telescope lens until a planet or star moves out of frame. Watching it leave frame is really cool, because you get an idea of how fast the Earth is rotating.
It’s the closest thing I’ve ever come to having a “divine experience.”
“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” - the philosopher Seneca (also Semisonic)
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