the blindspot: Dateline 5/25

When an subject is controversial, one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold. One can only give one's audience the the chance of drawing their own conclusions as they observe the limitations, the predjudices, the idiosyncracies of the speaker.

- Virginia Woolf

Wednesday, May 25, 2005

Dateline 5/25

After promising to call me in 3 days, Phillips finally gets back to me yesterday and wants an interview. So I do a phone interview this morning which amounted to a lot of nothing. The main person requested that I send him more info, but I just sent him an email asking him to remove me from consideration. The way I see it, by waiting so long, they put me in a lose-lose situation. If I take the internship, I have to break my commitment to AHRC (who I still need Med school recommendations from), if I go to camp (pretty much certain that I will) I will probably never get an engineering internship and the career development office will be pissed. Either way, it sure beats unemployment.

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: Name: chris; Location: Philadelphia, United States

After deep introspection, I can only say that I have lived a comparatively short and generally boring life. To get the obvious but necessary content out of the way, we can start by saying that I was born into an average American, middleclass family (2 kids, dog, house, ect.) and spent the next 18 years living with them in sunny, beautiful upstate New York. The area I lived in had very bad public schools, so I attended private Christian schools, where I learned the usual academic stuff (which I wish I could remember) along with a lot of catholic theology (which I wish I could forget). My father is an auto mechanic who taught me that there is no shame and working with your hands and that you should only do what you love. At 18, I decided on a whim to go to Boston University. There I learned that you solve problems with detailed analysis, logical execution, and hard work, or just tons of money and a lot of bureaucracy. So being broke and hating paperwork, I learned the skills that I hope will make me successful in the future

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