Train your ninjutsu daily,

In university, I've found that I have a heart to study to find answers, and perhaps also a heart to be tested and fight for results... But a heart to learn about and understand the world... Still no answer to that. No pulse.

The next 5 semesters are about to begin. Last semester's exams left me with a feeling of cobwebs in my brain (and a distaste for Durkheim, that f***wit). They also made a strong impression on me, leading me to think that there is a perhaps a valuable distinction to be made between the words "studying" and "learning".

Just like it sometimes takes energy to be interested in listening to someone, it can also take effort to become truly interested in learning new things. It takes effort to put aside your own ego and opinion to hear what others have to say. It also takes effort to put aside the things we are so comfortable with (e.g.Pwning ppl at Dota, picking up girls at bars) to take an interest in new ones that we know little about.

My new year's resolution for this coming year is to become alive inside, to go from an interest in solving Durkheimian word puzzles and riddles to an interest in the world around me.

I'd also like to accomplish this while getting attached.

And without a drop in my gpa.

But I guess my main objective and my side objectives can meet somewhere down the middle.

I really hope my gpa doesn't drop this year, or I'll be mad at myself for for doing both 205 and 214 projects the night before the due date. And for possibly screwing up the last questions of each paper.

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I think I'm going to be brave and do HP102 next semester.

The maths will work different parts of my brain, and stave off potential Alzheimer's disease.