These last few weeks I have had the image of two primordial men drawing on an ancient cave wall with a piece of slate, counting down to the day school fires up again, stuck in my head. It is a bizarre, abnormal, and what some may call crazy way to look at things. Optimism, in my case, is almost based solely upon the fact that in a little less than two weeks, I will be walking through the halls that I love so much. School gives me a purpose in life, a drive to get considerable amount of work done, and the opportunity to be surrounded by incredibly intelligent people. I cannot say that I enjoy waking at the sharp hour of 5am each morning completely, but there is something wonderful about the routine I get into, which in many cases involves the fine music of the classical radio station WQXR, or the wonderful reporting of WNYC, a local NPR affiliate. Most would find all of this quite mundane, but in my case it serves as a magnificent highlight, and often times gets me in a very favorable mood. Academia appeals to me upon so many levels, that is almost becomes impossible for me to articulate them all here( in brief at least).
In any event, the days of summer are few in number, and everyday is starting to feel more limited. I am incredibly eager to walk back in to school, and it is nearly torturous to continue on with these final days of summer. This is not just me, of course, everyone is starting to get depressed now that summer is becoming a melancholy memory, rather than an ongoing event. Many nights I had fun—thinking back a lot of fun—but all things must make room for the new, and this is certainly the case in academic advancement. Can you imagine a summer frozen in time, continuing on forever, leaving you in your current state? In my case, I can assure you that such an event would be very much unwelcome, and I much prefer the natural way things progress. So, it is with all of that nonsense that I await the start of the school year, when all things in life become a rather large deal. The time of fooling around is no more.
-Steven P.
August 21, 2010
