School

Classes resume on Monday and although I'm not looking forward to it, I'm also ready to get it over with. It's exhausting working full-time and taking 12 credit hours, while maintaing a vast variety of other hobbies, committments and life requirements. The break was nice and I'm looking forward to the day I can come home after work or do whatever I want all the time! :) I know I'm blessed to be able to attend school and acquire massive amounts of student loans. However, I wish we weren't such a degree driven country. I know plenty of highly intelligent people who never went to college and plenty of complete idiots who did. I often wonder why those with a degree get paid more than someone who doesn't have one, but is equally, if not more, skilled. I know the arguement is that they've proven they work hard...but I disagree. You prove you're a hard worker when you get into a job, show up on time every day and put your best effort into your work. When I think of a traditional college student, I do not think "hard worker." I completely agree some fields require a degree, such as doctors. I would not want a doctor doing surgery on me who thinks they are skilled b/c they put stitches in their dog, etc. For me going to school wasn't about being a hard worker, it was about getting a piece of paper that says I'm smart enough and deserve to make more money then I did when I was lacking a degree. Oh well, such is the way of the world. I'm sure there are many people who disagree with me, but that's why we all are entitled to our own opinions! :)

Last night at CF was wonderful. We worked in teams of 3. I worked with my dad and Cindy and we faired well. I believe we came in 2nd place of all the teams.

1/7/2009
AMRAP in 20 minutes

1000m Row
100 Burpees
100 Box Jumps

We completed 2 rounds and got an additional 1128 points with a 3rd round almost completed with 1000m row, 63 burpees and 68 box jumps. Close! I did pretty well, except for bending my finger backwards when going down into burpee position and hearing it crunch. It's okay today, just a little sore.