Monday, August 21, 2006

Back to school gear

Well for those of us who are in pursuit of a college degree, the fight resumes in a couple weeks. I received an interesting e-mail from amazon.com recently. It contained a link to a page where I could purchase things useful for returning to school.
The page can be found here. The first three items pictured are: a long sleeve t-shirt, a pocket knife and a mountain bike. Why do we need a pocket knife to go back to school?

Posted by Todd C. at 12:49 PM

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What does all of this do to the best minds among the students? Most of them endure their college years with the teeth-clenched determination of serving out a jail sentence. The psychological scars they acquire in the process are incalculable. But they struggle as best they can to preserve their capacity to think, sensing dimly that the essence of the torture is an assault on their mind. And what they feel toward their school ranges from mistrust to resentment to contempt to hatred – intertwined with a sense of exhaustion and excruciating boredom.

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