Small bites

Counting chickens?

Unless something changes rapidly, it looks like I’ll have to repeat this economics class, if not my finance class too. This risks delaying graduation another quarter, despite my counting down the days. As lesson, to not count your chickens before they hatch. There is a part of me that says to extend graduation – to take the customary 3 classes each quarter, a pace I’m familiar with and enjoy the last stretch of time here. There’s the other part of me that says just fit it in somewhere and then be done with it- on time- like planned.

This would answer the “Do I walk or not” question. If I delay graduation – I doubt I’ll be allowed to walk in June. Is it the journey? Is it the destination? Is it the manner in which you get there?

Something to note here. Math is not my strong suit. Or at least, I’m not as fast as others. We all knew this. I chose my weakness and have attempted to strengthen it. I didn’t pick something that I was naturally good at. Honestly at this point, nothing really comes to mind in reference to my strengths. The ego has taken its beatings, today it’s seeking to Unless something changes rapidly, it looks like I’ll have to repeat this economics class, if not my finance class too. This risks delaying graduation another quarter, despite my counting down the days. As lesson, to not count your chickens before they hatch. There is a part of me that says to extend graduation – to take the customary 3 classes each quarter, a pace I’m familiar with and enjoy the last stretch of time here. There’s the other part of me that says just fit it in somewhere and then be done with it- on time- like planned.

This would answer the “Do I walk or not” question. be comforted and reassured. I know that if I called my dad to let him know it’s highly likely I’ll have to repeat this class – his response will be “WHY?? You should have been preventing it!” in the way that all “tough love” kind of dads are. While immediately, he’s the first person I want to call regarding this – I have not. Which leads me to where I’m going regarding people being who they are.
I had a conversation with my friend Jeff the other day, where he’d said something along the lines of “people are who they are” – in reference to personalities and their responses. I (in rare form) was defending the argument that all personalities could be taught – the manner in which the lesson is learned – for some- could be tragically difficult. I was thinking of Sense and Sensibility – in reference to Colonel Brandon’s comments. He was making the argument that some folks (one in particular that we were talking about) do not. That people are who they are. She was never going to see where her fault was. Is never going to want to look too closely at it to address it.
Which leads me back to math and what that says about my personality. Is it in my nature to never be good at anything – always being medicore at everything? Why I’