Good people good times

I just finished talking with Timothy Dougherty a minute ago and he gave me some good news, he is going to grad school to the U of M. Tim has been really proactive in pushing what I call green awareness on campus, so he hill be very much missed around here. This inspired me to borrow a phrase from Kennedy "And so, my fellow [Auggies], ask not what [Augsburg] can do for you; ask what you can do for [Augsburg]." This is mainly but not only for first year students to become more active in Augsburg's development. There is so much you can do to put the world's spot lights on our community.

Olympics quick comment

I was looking at the formation of athletes that are going to the Olympics from a few countries (Georgia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Norway, and the US) and I could not help to notices the following:

Nicaragua has only 1 competitor (ha haha, arriba!)
Georgia surprisingly has 24
Mexico: quite a few but their pictures look like the wanted list of the FBI
The rich countries of course have 50+ with nice profiles


Anyway we'll see how many bronzes Mexico gets this time.

Charity in MSP

Since Augsburg is committed to community service I thought I’d share about one volunteer opportunity I recently heard about. It’s called the Mother Bear Project and was started about 5 years ago. The goal of the project is to collect hand-made bears that are then shipped to children in various countries in Africa. There are many ways to participate in the project, starting from actually making the bears to helping pack the boxes for shipping. If you are interested, you should check out their website at http://www.motherbearproject.org/ Any time or money you donate will make a difference!



THE MISMO!!!

e-mail quotes

You might have noticed that many people have quotes at the end of their sent e-mails. In making use of my radical freedom I decided that I wanted to put something that meant more than words but that at the same time would be simple and complex. The result was that my e-mail signature is a drawing by Picasso (the dog). It is funny because so far no one has acknowledge that I had god taste in putting that image in my e-mail signature. So far the only comments I have gotten are: what's that? why are you sending me a dog? you should delete that? that looks unprofessional?

Ha haha, I guess all I can do is laugh at them for their ignorance... I mean ok you might not be acquainted with art, but you can still read that the drawing has Picasso's signature. Oh well like I said people are afraid to be different... me I'm just striving to stay creative.

Apologies #?

I know... I know this is about the 1000th time I post apologizing. A number of weeks ago I promised that I was going to go around campus rating the restrooms. Because of chaos and uncertainty in my days, I have not been able to do such a thing. For the ones (0) that are dying to see the results... All I have to say is oops.

Something Fun

More on circumstancialism

I want to share some more of the philosophical work I have been creating.


Circustancialism is not a Humanism.

The making of circumstancialism started thanks to the inspiration from the work of a handful of philosophers, economists, intellectuals, and entrepreneurs. As you might guess Sartre caused the greatest impact on my life and my way of thinking. I retook Sartre's work because I have found deep similarities in our way of assessing life situations. I am not at all suggesting I can come even close to him, rather I am just saying my way of seeing life is similar to JPS. Long before I started studying Sartre I believed that we can best learn how life works by understanding the circumstances of our life at a given time. This is remarkable because Sartre said during an interview (in the 70's I believe) that life taught him the force of circumstances. That is, he believed in what I believe only that it took him a while to realize that. which after reflexion and work motivated me to reassess his work, but adding on the circumstantial factor. There was yet another thing that pushed me to pursue the philosophical direction. People, analyzing people the way we act and live our "every day life's" revealed me something rather terrifying. We live a systematic life, only a few people have the courage to go against main stream. The way society acts nowadays makes it impossible for people with no credentials to come up with with good stuff. I also noticed that people project themselves onto others. With that I mean that people are afraid to try to be proactive in their best personal interest (here we have to be careful in defining our personal interest and what society dictates), because THEY ARE AFRAID to be judged. I have to phenomenal examples to proove my point:

1.- Well the first has to deal with academia (obviously). I have also happen to work on some mathematics this summer. I have been working on an aspect of the theory of numbers, but I have been turned down because I am just a student whose primary interest is not even math. In addition, I was quickly underestimated by someone who is known to be critical. It took this person about two minutes to figure that I was not good material for grad school because two reasons, my GPA, and my lack of involvement(ha haha). I think it was hilarious because I did not even had time to share more of myself and what motivates me and so on and so forth. No! the person cut me and also had the decency to say "I don't want to make you feel bad" (more ha haha).


2.-The example of "real" life and "best" personal interest pursue. I was over a friends house for BBQ, sometime in July I think. Everything was going great until his dad again negatively impacted me with his very personal views of what to do to succeed in life. This person is setting his kid in the most comfortable and systematic situations. They both believe that getting an internship is the ultimate goal in life and after that getting a job in order to get married, get insurance, open a 401 k, and wait until a miserable age to retire. When I said I was looking to go to grad school their first reaction was "good luck paying for it." They think because my friend is a conformist I am too, ha haha. Well no, I am sorry to disappoint everyone. FUCK being like every one else I am not YOU so stop FUCKING being such a champion of sincerity and take care of your miserable ranged life...

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