Random Thoughts Thread 004

ummm...ok...excuse me....UNIVERSITY! lol

 

a college can be nearly anything, and some only offer associates degree programs, and some that you see on TV saying you can get a degree in 6months or whatever. Universities typically provide undergrad, graduate, and doctoral schools. It usually takes 4 years for an undergrad degree (Like a Bachelor's of Science). Only then can you attempt to be accepted into graduate school. This is where you get your higher degrees, like Master's of Science, or PhD (doctor of philosphy) in a scientific field. Basically if you're field is science or engineering, you need a university. Most people who get PhDs and do post doctoral work stay in academics, doing their own research, contributing to the frontier of human knowledge rather than working in industry. though many specialist medical doctors often have PhDs, some have multiple degrees, like if you've ever seen a doctor with an name like "Dr. John Smith, PhD, MD, BS, MS" ... thats means he has four degrees.

 

i know...in no way, was i minimalizing your achievement here.....

I can be a humorist at times, depending on my mood...It can offset how serious I can be, as well...you did not know that yet?

 

yes, i haven't achieved much of anything yet ... i dont' have a "real" degree yet. I have a few certificates that's about it. It's a fairly long process ... not something you can do in 6months (unless you're getting an associates of arts in hip-hop dance .. you could probly do that in like 2 years)

There's a bunch of certs I want also, that you can't get in university, you have to test for them seperately:

GSEC
A+
SSCP
CISA
CEH
Security+

Some of those certs cost over 500+ to take the test .. :/ And I don't think can get financial aid to pay for those, at least not without breaking the law... i may be wrong though.

 

Umm...were you asking for a sponser?
I am not that rich yet.

 

No I just don't think it should take that much to take a test. I'm the one that studied for it, I'm the one taking it, they ought to pay me. It's not like most tests aren't completely automated ...

 

I miss Bosnia so, so much right now. I want to gooooo

 

That is good...I know...things should not be that expensive in this world...it all sucks....Hey, you know, if I were rich, I would not hesitate helping you, though....you have to know that.....

 

Hey do you think you could also pay for some of my stuff?

 

sure, when I get rich...ok?

 

No problem.
In the meantime, I could use a prayer or two, if that's your thing.

 

Does anybody else feel like their focus, their vision, gets stuck when they're doing close work and won't revert back to normal or distance viewing very easily?

 

rich people aren't gonna be helping us pay for our stuff ever. This is how they get rich you know, by making things expensive ...

 

Be of cynical mind and pure heart, and you will do just fine.....I think you are those two things, anyway. i recognize those traits in others.....

 

hehe ... i think ur pretty close lol

 

Yeah, they say when working on a computer screen you shouldn't be too close, and should take breaks where you look at something far off in the distance to let your eyes accomodate. I'm on the computer a lot, and it can definitely cause eyestrain, but it seems to be a lot worse when you're actually doing something mentally challenging, its as if your eyes have to work harder to something complex like process computer code than they do in order to look at pictures of cats or just regular light reading...makes sense, the eyes themselves do a lot or preprocessing to visual signals before ever reaching the brain.

The worst thing I've ever worked on that really fucked with my eyes was working on PCBs with a soldering iron all day. You use a magnifier, so you can actually see (the circuits are small), and then youre eyes are so focused (and like super wide, and its like when im doing something like this ... I dont blink, its like I'm struggling to get as much visual information through my eyes as possible for tasks like this), like after hours of that my eyes wouldn't focus right the rest of the day and felt scratchy, and there was like a few weird small veins in my eye around my iris ... like i had really strained my eyes and they weren't getting enough oxygen to process such detail so grew extra capillaries, but they went away. I'm sure the soldering fumes didn't help either, but that doesn't explain the blurry vision ... like my vision was REAL messed up, but it went back to normal so I don't think it can be a permanent thing but it can cause headaches. I mean my vision was really poor for a while afterwards, like i could barely see stuff that wasn't super close .. almost like I had done some kind of drug.

 

Yeah, I'm not around the fumes but when I'm sewing something by hand it does it. I think it's taken them almost an hour this time to quit freaking out and that's actually pretty good compared to other times.

I can't really go drive or anything when my eyes are "stuck".

 

It's ur brain saying "we need more data throughput" ... i've been told that when I'm working on something like code, or a circuit board that I look like I'm on speed or something, but at the same time calm. but bug eyed and eyes glazed over ... and a bomb could go off next to me and I wouldn't even blink. That's how focused I can get on some things...like a machine.

I guess working on detailed stuff requires a lot of information throughput from the eyes.

 

Hmmm...That's pretty interesting.

 

Yeah, sometimes you can talk to me and I won't even hear you, and won't remember it later. Some things are so detailed and intense, it's like I merge with it, becoming part of the machine for a while ... that's the only way to understand it, is to become part of it. My mind blocks out all other irrelevant noise, in order to get the maximum signal to noise ratio so to speak.