[berkeley]

>>If I give up on you, I give up on me, if we fight what's true, will we ever be?<< the Calling's "Stigmatized"

Impulses
I was surfing random blogs when I found a 17 year old girl's web journal. She's an aspiring photojournalist and her work looks great.

I wonder why I never considered majoring in Photography back when I was a Senior in high school. Oh yes, I remember now. I brushed it off because it wasn't a real major. Silly me. I like Engineering Physics, but it would have been fun to have gone to NYU or Brooks Institute of Photography in Sta. Barbara to become a photographer---much more interesting than being an engineer. Talk about clouded.

Well, I've chosen my path. I find comfort in the fact that I can get better at photography if I work at it. Even five minutes a day will make me a tiny bit better than I was the day before. Talent and luck inevitably limit the most determined person, but even the Average Joe can go pretty far by putting in the time. I've still got a long way to go.

"Cogito ergo sum..."
Artists have hands down way more sex appeal than tech people. Suppose you're at a party, one person quotes something in Latin or an excerpt from Steinbeck, while another begins to expand upon the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle and Gaussian Wave Packets...I'd be willing to bet that people would be more attracted to the Humanities guy than the Science guy. Oh yeah, the title of this section? "I think therefore I am" by Rene Descartes.