Archive for 28 December, 2005

Introduction to Post Modern Thought

December 28, 2005 8:20 pm

I was in college, Cedarville College…. now Cedarville University. Cedarville is a Christian liberal arts college. We had mandatory chapel every day. Most of the chapels were great, but after a while they became rather trite and were viewed, by the less than completely spiritual folk, as a bit of a necessary evil as part of going to college at Cedarville. Two chapels stand out quite vividly in my mind. The first and greatest was the chapel when Dr. Dixon, the president, found one pour sap sleeping and decided to unfurl his rage so as to make an example of him. The second was the chapel on post modernity. I don’t remember how it exactly started out, probably with the usual singing and announcements and so forth. But then they had some crazy video graphics up on the screens and some guy came walking out on the stage with a “big hair” wig on. He proclaimed himself “Post Modern Dave” and said he was from MTV. Well he was actually a professor of physceology at the college. He went on to introduce us to the latest evil that had been concocted by the world to thwart decent Christian thought and the progression of the gospel. I remember a few main points from is talk… 



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Its all down hill after the internship

7:57 pm

Your experience as an intern will never be topped in the rest of your working career. When I mention this as an observation to friends who are currently in the middle of the upward career climb, they usually agree with me without hesitation. You may make more money, have more respect, do things that are more meaningful… but you will never recapture the glorious feeling of being an intern. Perhaps I will someday have the good fortune of looking back on a career of accomplishments and be able to examine my own arrival at a place of accomplishment and importance mixed with the respect of my peers and in that moment I may feel as good about work as I did when I was an intern, but I doubt it. Now I am quite sure that many people have had terribly awful internship experiences… but I would still maintain that the intern in that experience would be better off that someone who was working full time at the same activity.



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