So, like. I am wanting to go to Australia to visit my ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
tyger for spring break. Perfectly reasonable, yeah? Only, like. I can't find a SINGLE ROUNDTRIP FLIGHT for the week I need to go for less than $2000USD.
Let me repeat that.
$2000.
To get to Australia from Los Angeles - several thousand miles FURTHER AWAY from the destination, mind you - is $898. To go from Hawaii to London - you know, on the other side of the PLANET FROM ME? - is less than $1100.
WHY THE FUCK IS IT MORE THAN TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS TO GO TO AUSTRALIA. WHY. I DO NOT UNDERSTAND THIS.
tyger for spring break. Perfectly reasonable, yeah? Only, like. I can't find a SINGLE ROUNDTRIP FLIGHT for the week I need to go for less than $2000USD. Let me repeat that.
$2000.
To get to Australia from Los Angeles - several thousand miles FURTHER AWAY from the destination, mind you - is $898. To go from Hawaii to London - you know, on the other side of the PLANET FROM ME? - is less than $1100.
WHY THE FUCK IS IT MORE THAN TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS TO GO TO AUSTRALIA. WHY. I DO NOT UNDERSTAND THIS.
I dun wanna skool today. But I'm already here, and I've already missed one session of this class, and. Argh. >_< Baaaah. It's another gorgeous day out, and I'm stuck working on stupid pointless crap. More 'career assessment' (wtf does that have to do with scholarships?! I know what I like! I know what I'm good at! I HAVE A PLAN!) crap that doesn't even have anything at all relevant to me at ALL. >_<
It rated me high for POLITICAL SCIENTIST of all things. Oy vey. Anyone who knows me more than super-casually knows I think politics is dreadfully boring. I mean. I realise that it's important, but so's sewer maintenance. Doesn't mean I want anything to do with that, either. Why do none of these things ever do more than briefly flirt with the hard sciences?
OH RIGHT. Because it's a 'career' assessment. And when you think of serious sciences, it's really less of a 'career' and more of a 'calling.' Would you say that Stephen Hawking has a 'career' in theoretical physics? Does Neil deGrasse Tyson have a 'career' in astronomy? Carl Sagan? Marie Curie?
A career is something you do.
A scientist is something you are.
It rated me high for POLITICAL SCIENTIST of all things. Oy vey. Anyone who knows me more than super-casually knows I think politics is dreadfully boring. I mean. I realise that it's important, but so's sewer maintenance. Doesn't mean I want anything to do with that, either. Why do none of these things ever do more than briefly flirt with the hard sciences?
OH RIGHT. Because it's a 'career' assessment. And when you think of serious sciences, it's really less of a 'career' and more of a 'calling.' Would you say that Stephen Hawking has a 'career' in theoretical physics? Does Neil deGrasse Tyson have a 'career' in astronomy? Carl Sagan? Marie Curie?
A career is something you do.
A scientist is something you are.
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