this is currently the hardest semester of my college life. all of my classes are extremely interesting. i have learned many useful and useless facts. for instance:
- the amount of energy your body loses when running into a brick wall at 11 mi/hr is roughly 1% the amount of energy that a cup of tea loses when cooling from 95 degrees C to room temperature. who would have thought?
- the reason “perms” stink is that the chemicals are breaking and reforming disulfide bonds in your hair. (this temporarily converts them to thiols, the same type of chemicals that give rotten eggs their odor.)
- going from advanced classes back to basic classes is much harder than one would expect. it is like temporarily unlearning information so that you can replace it with something you know to be oversimplified, and, therefore, partially untrue.
but above all, i have learned that nothing is ever as simple as it seems.
physics currently has me beat. isaac newton may well have been a genius, but i certainly am not.
physics teaches us that in an isolated system one can only move in relation to the rest of his parts, but not actually change the direction in which his system his heading. however, change can be accomplished if one’s system is acted on by an outside force. this means that no matter how hard i try, without God, i cannot produce real change in my life. only He can separate me from my downfalls. with God’s help the potential energy of any problem on my existence is zero as the distance between me and it is pushed into infinity by the mercy and grace of God’s working. the gravitational pull of my human nature cannot affect anything with God deflecting it.
That gravity… It’s a killer!