I am becoming much more pragmatic...

Yep, as I age, my moral outrage is eroding into something much more practical.

I feel bad about that.

but also bemused.

 

That is a shame

 

two years ago, I would have been outraged at the fact that my dream school had a shit english department (even though I admittedly am not going there for english, I would avoid taking the english classes if I could as they are a waste of time)

now, I look at the work of their A students and just think "shit, I'm going to be their star pupil if I sleep through those fucking classes.... go core curriculum.."

on the upside, it's offset by the most rigorous non-post graduate curriculum in the country in the field I am seeking a degree in (obv. planning on going elsewhere for post grad work) And, if I get a decent score on the SAT, I'll be in this time next year, so.......

Pragmatism seems appropriate

but it makes me sad that I am not morally outraged at

"200 hundred" being considered passable in a campus publication at an engineering school.

and it makes me wonder if one of their grads was responsible for the communication fuck up that caused that mars mission fuck up (where half of the mission was programmed metric, and the other half was programmed imperial)