Stepping into the modern age...

I have a fancy new phone. It goes on the internet. It's a touch screen. It has apps.

I've decided to view this purchase as a step towards further adulthood; though I'm not really sure how a phone that lets me pass away the hours by watching videos and playing games is going to make me more of an adult. Though so far it has made getting places easier. I've yet to judge it's lasting effects on my ability to get lost - I think that might be something that no piece of technology will ever overcome.

So far I think it's pretty cool.

And people say we don't need affirmative action anymore

While looking into schools (more on that later) I came across the following statistics regarding this particular schools student population:

Students of Color

Undergraduates

• African-American: 3%
• Asian-American: 15%
• Latino/a: 9%
• International: 4%

Graduate students

• African-American: 8%
• Asian-American: 9%
• Latino/a: 11%
• International: 16%

While I've always felt people who claimed that minorities were given too much 'special treatment' were delusional, I was still surprised at these stats. We have a lot further to go to bring up those numbers. While I have never been one to stop at just statistics, I think putting faces to numbers is more important, sometimes the cold hard percentages are necessary to show where we are, and remind us where we should be.

Reasons why I don't belong in corporate america...

+ I'm not rich (or on the path to becoming so).

+ I'm more concerned about the trees you are killing with all the (useless) reports you are printing than the money they could make you (this is probably the reason I am not on the path to becoming wealthy).

+ I think there are more important things in the world than getting you airline miles for the flight I booked you. And I refuse indulge your concern over them.

+ I am a hippie

+ Cliche business phrases (behind the 8-ball, the ball is in your court, we really need to buckle down, lets think big picture) make me laugh...out loud.

+ Pretending to be nice to important people leads me to drink.

+ Making significantly less than people who don't know how to use a copy machines leads me to drink more.

+ I don't own stock. And I don't have a problem with that.


I don't want to entirely give the impression that all things that are inherent in corporate america are bad. They are just not for me. While I strive to have enough money to pay all my bills and have some for fun, money will never be a number one priority for me, other elements of a successful life are more what I measure myself by. So to each his own I suppose - I just need to keep working on that life plan.