Bliss by Harry Bliss for May 13, 2021

She’s already thinking that.

I for one am NOT going to wear a mask for the rest of my life.

Among other things…

… or “This is when we thought that is couldn’t get any worse …” ?

Their shallow response to Covid is just as toxic as the disease. Unless one of the three of those are about to die, I’m not buying it.

College was once about advanced learning and exposure to different disciplines, not a self-centered “experience”. Making it much worse is over specialization in the undergraduate years when the goal should be diversity of thought and learning.

The power of positive thinking ….

My son will receive his Masters degree this weekend. No ceremony. We ask if he was upset. He said, “Nah.” Our other son’s girlfriend gets her Bachelor’s degree the following weekend. We asked her the same thing. She was a little more bothered because part of her junior year and all of her senior year were totally disrupted, and her graduation is online only. She said she would have liked to walk, but in the end, it’s the degree and the work it enables that counts.

I think it ruined the college experience for more parents than it did kids. The college aged people I know are pretty much taking it in stride. However their parents bemoan it (and whine about it) a lot.

Wahh waaaaa! Are they in a rice paddy in Vietnam? Or experiencing desert warfare in the middle east? I think not.

Of course Covid disrupted the college experience of everyone else in her graduating class, so it’s not like she was screwed and everyone else had normal college lives.

Of course, that is only if you were looking for the ‘Animal House’ college experience. Actually learning things is still going on.

Yeah. Almost 600,000 dead in the US alone but lets whine and moan about how unfair and inconvenient life has become.

When this graduating class looks back on life, I hope Covid will be the only thing that messed them up.

And there you have “the Making of a Snowflake 101”, brought to you by parents who currently have no life and even less in the way of brains.

I had to pay for my education. Took classes when I could afford them, did all classes possible at community college (smaller classes, less expensive, and not taught by grad students). Yes it took longer, but when I finished, I had a strong working background in my field, no student loans, and was paid $50K more than all the other grads in my field. Was it hard? Yes. Would I recommend the path to others? Parts of it.

If the intake tracts on my old motorcycle leaked as bad as ANY of these masks, that motor would have been toast in a short time. Think about it.

Looking back, except to learn life lessons, doesn’t do a lot of good, life moves on, the sun comes up the next morning. Take the lessons learned and apply them to life and move on. If you don’t learn the lessons, prepare yourself for less of a life than you could have had.

But she did spend more time studying and got her Ph. D., which is waaaay more bankable than a mythical “college experience” that wasn’t all that fun for a lot of us.