So, before today, I was pretty excited about the upcoming semester. It was one of those feelings where I felt on top of the world, ready to face the new semester. But when it comes to challenging things (yes, college is challenging) those feelings tend to wear off pretty quickly. Persistence is much better than temporary zeal. Here, I'll relate an analogy that represents this idea.
2 summers ago, I went to Yellowstone National Park. It has many geysers, the most famous being Old Faithful. But it isn't Yellowstone's highest geyser. It only shoots about 100 feet into the air. In comparison, the Steamboat Geyser can reach nearly 400 feet. Why is Old Faithful so notorious then? The answer lies in its name: Old Faithful erupts many times a day, in a consistent schedule. The Steamboat Geyser last erupted many years ago, and has had several minor (30ish feet) eruptions, but nothing consistent or magnificent.
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| Those are full grown trees |
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The moral of the story is to be consistent day to day. Its not important to be amazing once in a while, or even your best every day. It's important to keep going and never give up, and that's what I hope that this semester can be like. The initial anticipation I had wore off, but I hope to be just like Old Faithful: Reliable and consistent.
First, I appreciate your use of analogy. (but you'd expect that of me) Secondly, I know that feeling all too well. But with me, that feeling of zeal lasts a bit longer. Specifically, until next Friday, when my first round of papers are due and I turn into dust. By my highly exaggerated count, I have 8 papers due then, and that will surely suppress my refound desire to learn. As I'm only now starting my logic class, I can conclude that your lack of steam is the result of a similar set of papers due today. I find that exceedingly harsh of BYU, and conclude that you must transfer to SUU immediately. But seriously, good luck with reliability Mr. engineer.
ReplyDeleteP.S. I'm trying to add a permenant link to your website from mine, any idea how to do that?