red eye
just got back from an extended weekend trip to the west coast to celebrate my cousins barmitzvah. it was quite an adventure 20 min bus to bus station 1 hr bus to airport 14 hr flight to the OC. then back again a couple days later. but in all honestly the time spent traveling is insignificant compared to the amount of enjoyment i had over the few days. i have always felt that there is no better way to spend time than with family. on another note time is flying by. honestly. i feel like i just got to Germany but i am already searching for co-ops. meaning i will be done with my first semester here soon. only a couple more semesters till i graduate college, ridiculous. my new focus is on gaining as much knowledge as possible. there is an overwhelming amount of knowledge at my finger tips with internet and books, i just cant seem to absorb all the information fast enough. a small side project i am working on is a time line of the world since creation, but focused around topics that interest and affect me. it may sound silly, but there is so much information and without a way of putting it in perspective there is no way to truly understand anything. here is a quick example: 4.5 billion BC the earth and its solar system was created. scientists have dated the oldest sign of life to 3 billion BC. then jumping all the to 65 million BC we have the oldest known dinosaur. just try and imagine the evolution of the first bacteria into the eventual dinosaur, hard to image but now consider the billions of years it had time to take place. then tens of millions of years later the first sign of humans show up. as humans we are such a small part of the history of the world. then in 70,000 BC man made fire. and it wasnt till 60,000 years later that man made the wheel. of course these facts are based on the findings of scientists and paleontologists and of course are subject to error, but they are the best figures we have to date based on the collaborative intelligence of experts, and I accept there findings. that was a random tangent….but some food for thought.