Freedom!

Isn't that what Mel Gibson screams at the end of "Braveheart"? I don't remember...

Ahh, sweet freedom... from physics anyway. Today I took my last test, got a B in the class, and sold my book for one hundred bucks. 'Twas glorious. I forgot how liberating the end of spring semester is. And now I'll never look at physics again... except when I'm taking the MCAT... and the GRE. Damn.

And I think I'm getting sick. Bugger. I have this one pissed off, swollen lymph node on the side of my neck the size of ... *touches to check*... a skittle (not as impressive as I originally thought...), and I can feel my throat starting to get more sensitive. But just one side of it! Very strange.

So that's my life. Study. Test. Study. Another test. Sell books. Clean out room, and then I'm gone!... for a few weeks. And then I come back!

Sometimes I wonder what will become of my roommate. Because she doesn't have classes anymore (her next two weeks are also devoted to studying and testing) she doesn't leave the room anymore (except for dinner). She spends two-thirds of her day at her desk watching anime/doing homework/studying?/watching more anime. She's a linguistics major. I'm not really sure how much work that entails, but for most of the year she has only been on campus for (at most a few hours a day) and then comes back and sits at her computer.

The point of this rant is that I worry for the future of civilization (the United States, specifically). And I secretly (and... for the most part... silently) wonder what will become of the hundreds of thousands of youths who do what needs to be done, but then spend the rest of their time on the internet or playing video games.

Maybe it's a phase they'll come out of. Or maybe they won't. Or maybe (just maybe), their mentality will become the norm and that will be the lifestyle of the majority of the population 10 or 20 or 50 years from now. I shudder to think...

I'm not one to criticise (okay, yes I am), pero with a such a huge active campus to explore and only 4 years to do it, I would hate to spend the majority of that in front of a computer. I'm not the most socially active person (yes, there have been entire weekends devoted to movies and episodes of Scrubs/House, M.D.), but I get out. Every once in a while...