18 December 2004

The Moment.

So I've been putting off updating because I wanted to wait and make this entry. I am done. That is all. Done with my ungraduate schooling at this fine establishment I go to known as Cal.

It's one of those bittersweet moments. I couldn't wait to be done with the going to classes and feeling like a retard part. The typical story of a UC Berkeley student is being good, tops, if not best at most whatever they do up until they come to Berkeley. No one actually believes they are the best in the world. But to realize there are so many people that are so much better than you, it breaks you. At least it broke me. In the sense that I felt I wasn't good at anything.

So that sums up Berkeley in a nutshell. I'm advising my kids against it. But on the other hand, I have to say that I've had the most intellectually stimulating time here. The level of thinking can be tough, but it's a stretch that often rewards itself. I remember countless times of being awed by the pure genius of model or theorem.

It's sad that I still don't have a job though. One step at a time.

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