When I have a clean room

When my room is clean I am a completely different person. When I wake up in the morning and don't have to step over a pile of dirty laundry I changes my whole day. I feel more happy and energetic and I always get more done. I know it would be a real benefit to my health, education and personal life to keep a clean room.

For some reason it never stays clean. There is a good chance that 90% of my productive time is spent in the 2% of my life when my room is clean. So why can't i use that productivity to keep the room clean?

I have no idea. I tell myself I'm going to do that every time but as soon as i hit a bump in the road like a big test to study for or having friends over, I get completely thrown off track. The congestion in my mind is directly translated to a dirty room. Its insane.

I'm no philosophy major, but i can definitely see a correlation here. I wonder if anyone else had had this same feeling?

My education

Ken Steele, an education marketing consultant, organizes student motivation for entering college into four categories:  

1.   The scholars: " interested in education for its own sake…m otivated by altruism…l ikely to go on to graduate school"

2.   The careerists:   "attend college as a means to an end: getting a job"

3.   The conflicted:   "like the careerists but are not sure where they are going… pushed into college by society or their parents"

 4.   The drifters:   "interested in the creature comforts of a campus and would rather go to college than get a job"

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 I believe I am a bit of a hybrid. My reasons for attending VCU are at there very core, rooted in a careerist view of education. I would like to be successful and this education provides me a compass to guide me toward that success. However, wanting to be an engineer, I posses a strong desire to know how and why things work. For this reason I believe I may also  be classified as a scholar. 

There is no other way to understand the enormous amount of material necessary to be a successful engineer other than to attend a university. Not to take away from the merit in having experience in the field, but I believe that a thorough knowledge of how a system works will be much more beneficial when attempting to solve a complex problem. Both are essential however.

There is one last thing I would like to talk about. I have thought this since the day I entered the university and my experiance has only strengthened my opinion. As far as I can see, the major flaw in the education system is in the classification of majors. Students learn in individual classes. If given the choice, even students in the same major and discipline might have different goals in there education and desire to take different course loads to have different strengths within the field. These strengths are what should be presented to employers.

With this type of education I believe students would go to college with a different attitude. They would not only go for one of Ken Steele's reasons, but they might also go to strengthen the exact skills they desire.

Things I love

1. America
2. God
3. My family
4. The summer
5. The Godfather
6. The steelers
7. My dog
8. Halo
9. Having heat in my apartment in the winter
10. Hamburger Helper
11. Troy Polamalu
12. Will Ferrell
13. Late night trips to Donalds'
14. Talking to hobos
15. Driving my American, gas guzzling, SUV
16. Hunting down innocent animals that cant fight back and destroying them
17. Being on the beach
18. Taking one for the team
19. Playing like a champion
20. Hiding important things in high places where short people can't reach
21. Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue by Toby Keith
22. Putting clothes on right when they come out of the dryer
23. Going camping
24. Windows down in the car
25. Washing my car
26. Going fishing
27. Walking down the street being American
28. Eating a hamburger, drinking a beer, being American
29. Watching television just because i can, being an American
30. "Sure, I've been called a xenophobe, but the truth is, I'm not. I honestly just feel that America is the best country and the other countries aren't as good. That used to be called patriotism."-Kenny Powers

My Bucket List

1. Get all A's in a semester
2. Get into medical school
3. Donate money to charity
4. Go to Vegas!
5. Think of something no one else has
6. Save someones life
7. Live on a sail boat
8. Make my kids believe in Santa Clause
9. Make fun of my kids when I tell them hes not real when they're 30
10. Fly an airplane
11. Get drunk with my dad and my son
12. Finish a marathon
13. Get married... get divorced, get married, get divorced, realize women are ridiculous and unreasonable (Kidding!)
14. White water rafting
15. Bowl a turkey
16. Have a suit made entirely of American flags
17. Go to france, take a big poop under the Eiffel tower and bail.
18. Live long enough to see the Pittsburgh Pirates win a game
19. Learn another language
20. Drive to Mexico
21. Get sung to by a Mariachi band
22. Eat 10 Big Macs in one sitting
23. Hold down 10 Big Macs
24. Meet Nancy Pelosi
25. Punch Nancy Pelosi in the nose
26. Be bad at halo(will never happen)
27. Drink a $100 glass of whiskey
28. Drive a Ferrarri
29. Go watch the Jerry Springer show and see a fight
30. Go skydiving without a parachute(This one is last for obvious reasons)