It's friday night. Can anyone tell me a better way to spend my time than writing a blog?!? Just kidding, I chose not to go out and enjoy the snow because I didn't want to be up too late because I would then sleep late tomorrow and miss valuable studying time. Anyways, I'm blogin' about this whole "themes" thing that iFoundry so politely offers us. I'll start off by saying that legitimately every single one interests me. I love the idea of getting a broad knowledge base (maybe I should have studied liberal arts...just kidding, I actually want to get a job after college...ZING). Okay so yeah, a broad knowledge base is benefitial, in my opinion, in that it allows you to connect with so many different people. No one (okay, not NO one) wants to hear about engineering during a date or just having a general conversation. If I could go from engineering to philosophy to sports to psychology to cooking to biology...that would be awesome. I've even considered doing summer school and taking cool gen eds just for the hell of it. I also could save money and just read alot of books...hmmm.
Okay back to this theme thing. At first glance, the ones that interest me the most are the economics theme, the environmental theme, the forein affairs theme, the philosophy theme, and the "understanding people" theme. If we're talking practicality, the econ, environmental (for me being a CEE), foreign affairs, and the law/policy themes, in my opinion, seem the best. I figure that I can do my own leisure reading about philosophy and possibly the psychology one, so I'll cross those off the list. I'm gonna go ahead and put econ, enviro, and foreign affairs at the top of my list for this reason: they all deal with broad, relatively global topics that will come in handy in the increasingly globalized job of engineering. Econ would certainly give you an idea of how markets and businesses work. The enviro one gives you some environmental science then throws in some environmental economics, which is nice. And the foreign affairs one covers globalization and international relations, which would come in handy if you work internationally. Of course, I'm just a freshman so I have no idea which theme would benefit me in the long run. I guess for now I'll just stick to reading books over winter and summer break. So yeah, that's all folks. Stay classy, adios, goodbye, smell ya later, in a while crocodile, peace out, go well, live long and prosper. (just kidding, I'm sure I'll see you (whoever actually reads this at this point) around).
Andrew
