Tomorrow I start second semester of junior year. Yep, no holiday off for MLK Jr. Day.
I think I've reached the point in life where I've started to think seriously about what I want to do with my life. I would like to teach math at a university. A great part of me wants to avoid having to get to work in a suit and tie and perhaps a briefcase. I wonder if my fear is irrational and groundless. Wearing a suit and tie should not be so bad, and I cannot think of an alternative. But what if an employer or some other adult were to go up to me holding up a clothes hanger with a suit and saying to me that I have to wear it? It's not something that I can at this moment think of as something I would want to do.
I've been thinking quite a bit over the Christmas break about science. Everyone wants to know more about science; science explains the world. If you go to Barnes & Noble and look at their "Thought-Provoking" section, you will find that many of the books deal with some aspect of science. For example, there will probably be at least one book about neuroscience, and perhaps books about global warming, science and religion, and some recent bestseller. The current bestseller is about how science can supposedly "explain moral values," whatever that means.
The scientific method is one way of knowing about the world, but it is not the only way.
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