The Fruits of Education

Dear Reader,

As you may well have noticed (or will notice upon a cursory glance at posts below), it's been a while. Well, I've started university, and really am not in the mood of writing anything worthwhile reading online, even though I guess I should be. I'll try to make a superhuman effort to write some more readable stuff, like a small treatise on relatives and absolutes.

Or maybe not.

P.S.
Anyone with job giving power is most welcome to offer me a part time job, or else just give me one of the following:

1) Apple MacBook Pro 2.16 GHz
2) Aprilia RS 125
3) Clothes
4) Food
5) Shelter
6) Money
7) Motu Traveller Soundcard
8) Gibson ES335 (in black, please)

Of Mice, Men and Maintenance Grants

I do not mean to sound ungrateful to what Government is doing with the money my father gave it, however, the not-so-recent decision that people doing Science courses should get more money (Lm 370 yearly; 470 in the first one) via stipends and maintenance grants, could, and should, get people thinking.

First of all, one has to recognise a fact of life so clearly emphasized during a handful of SOK lectures- some people are of a scientific aptitude, others tend to be more artistic.

People who understand a washing machine manual; people who can read between the lines.

People who will dismantle a camera and rebuild it; people who will actually use it to the limits.

The issue is that, while our country is choc a bloc with a lot of brilliant and some mediocre engineers, doctors and programmers, it is also choc a bloc with charlatan designers, colourblind video editors, manglish writers and pseudopoliticians.

Although there is more career potential in the technical fields, would it be a mortal sin if people with creative leanings would be provided with a technical background to perfect their art, or at least, develop it?

No, all artists are provided is a Higher National Diploma, which takes a while to get, but in the end, counts less than a degree.


Back to the bone of contention, money, iWonder™ what these science students will be spending my father's money on. Portable labs? Possibly. MP3 players and Nike, Converse or Adidas sneakers? More likely. Oh, and maybe some books.