Signing Off
My career as a part-time blogger has come to a screetching halt. I haven't posted anything in a long time. It's been almost a year since I started this blog, so it seems appropriate that I sign off with a few final thoughts.
I'm writing this as I'm waiting for a taxi to take me to the airport. I'm heading to South Africa (Lesotho, to be exact) to join the rest of my teammates who are currently building the first of three solar power units comissioned by the World Bank. I'll be there for three weeks, high in the mountains of Lesotho, in a small village called Bethel. Away from e-mail, phone and the small conveniences of modern life. I'm not sure what to expect, but it will be an interesting experience.
A few weeks ago we won the MIT $1K business plan competition with a business plan aimed at commercializing the system we're developing in Lesotho. Winning this small competition was a bit of a surprise, but it put a lot of wind in our sails. We're now considering forming a for-profit corporation to mass-produce these systems and make them available to a wider customer base in India. We'll see what happens...
Although my blogger career is ending, my student career is still going strong. I've extended my stay here at MIT for another semester to take a few more classes. I've also been offered a teaching assistant position which I couldn't refuse. If all goes well, I should finish by May at which point I plan to travel for a few months while pondering my future move.
I should end with a thought that has come to mind quite a bit. Friends and family always ask me "What have you learned at MIT?" My first reaction is to answer with a long list of methods, tools, techniques, etc. but I realized a while ago that the most important thing I've learned is to be a critical thinker, to analyze a situation and accept the fact that, most of the time, there is no right or wrong approach to it. What matters is "how" you think, not "what" you think. MIT has made me a better thinker. It has made me question everything around me and, in the process, generate more questions than answers!. But that's ok. Life is just a series of unanswered questions that constantly feeds my curiosity. With that thought, I'm off to my next adventure...
I'm writing this as I'm waiting for a taxi to take me to the airport. I'm heading to South Africa (Lesotho, to be exact) to join the rest of my teammates who are currently building the first of three solar power units comissioned by the World Bank. I'll be there for three weeks, high in the mountains of Lesotho, in a small village called Bethel. Away from e-mail, phone and the small conveniences of modern life. I'm not sure what to expect, but it will be an interesting experience.
A few weeks ago we won the MIT $1K business plan competition with a business plan aimed at commercializing the system we're developing in Lesotho. Winning this small competition was a bit of a surprise, but it put a lot of wind in our sails. We're now considering forming a for-profit corporation to mass-produce these systems and make them available to a wider customer base in India. We'll see what happens...
Although my blogger career is ending, my student career is still going strong. I've extended my stay here at MIT for another semester to take a few more classes. I've also been offered a teaching assistant position which I couldn't refuse. If all goes well, I should finish by May at which point I plan to travel for a few months while pondering my future move.
I should end with a thought that has come to mind quite a bit. Friends and family always ask me "What have you learned at MIT?" My first reaction is to answer with a long list of methods, tools, techniques, etc. but I realized a while ago that the most important thing I've learned is to be a critical thinker, to analyze a situation and accept the fact that, most of the time, there is no right or wrong approach to it. What matters is "how" you think, not "what" you think. MIT has made me a better thinker. It has made me question everything around me and, in the process, generate more questions than answers!. But that's ok. Life is just a series of unanswered questions that constantly feeds my curiosity. With that thought, I'm off to my next adventure...
posted by sorinescu at 11:15 AM
3 Comments:
Well-said, and well-done. Good luck!
I just came across this blog while googling "perfunctorily" for some sort of definition. I'm sad to hear something I just discovered's already gone, but THANK YOU for the laughs. :)
So many people don't care about global warming. They disregard the need for conservation and instead drive SUVs. They don't care about the Federal deficit/debt (outside of partisanship) and they don't care earning $400k for an $80,000/year job will eventually bankrupt the country. They have awarded themselves $400k pay and retirement packages, loading up their friends on the payroll during the boom 90s through the real estate bust while all services which the program were intended to fund now get cut to pay for it.
They think they are going sometime during/at the end of this life, and disregard the poor souls who are left behind.
Sounds like the Italians who were used to plan World War II and the Holocaust, and not by accident.
These are the people who will be here in the United States when bankruptcy is declared and society deteriorates into chaos. And they will deserve the anarchy which ensues.
The gods used the Italians to ruin life in the 20th century.
The gods used the Italians to ruin life in A.D. with The Church.
The Church controlled Western Civilization. As the largest land owner in Europe they controlled the monarchies. They were responsbile for slavery, revenge for African invasion and rape of Italy. They created religious discontent, ultimately leading to the disfavored dumping ground known as the United States.
And each generation of these Italians were sold on "earning", only to be reincarnated as a lesser life form subsequently, punishment for their evil.
"The West Bank, where the end of the world will begin." With xtianity.
And they were reincarnated into the ghetto to be punished as crack babies and in drive-by shootings, both intentionally inflicted on the black community and poetic justice for inflicting these horrors on their hated enemies.
On their brothers.
The gods are the commensurate rapist pathology, focussed on control.
It is appropriate the picked the Italians for the downfall of man. The perception offered is exactly how the gods are. Unfortunate for the Italians, they were deliberately altered to match this pathology so the god's behavior could be justified in the context of their positioning.
I will forever regret and resent being picked for this event.
I may not have learned as much as I have but I WOULD have gotten more done and made more progress, and at the end of this life that's all that matters. We are all reincarnated and must re-learn about the gods and their methodology.
This is the worst possible senario in my life.
Despite your attempts to force your positioning, "protection" and their fulfillment of the promise I am t have a "real chance" in a future life, I will take my hatred forward to the next life.
The empty promise is I will have a real chance of going, and if I retain this experience there is no way in damngod motherfuckers that would ever be possible. Secret is they have the freedom to remind me of this life, "executive priveledge" retained, sabotaging all progress up to that point. And they WILL utilize this tactic.
This is a lost cause. They are degenerate filth who positioned in a guarentee to fail, ensuring the are not to blame for their failed promise.
The upside down star is my symbol. There is of course no Satan. That's just the gods with different clothes on.
Another feature which the Gods offer as a clue is very foreboading and ominous. Mt. Zion is a mountain to the north of Diablo (the eye of The Beast) and one which has a working quarry at its base. Consistant with the decay we experience in society, Mt. Zion is being eaten away, slowly stripped of its resources, until one day paradise will be gone forever.
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