SYJ,MF!

I've been reading this book called Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! It's a really good book, full of anecdotes from this Nobel-prize winning physicist who had a really interesting life. Pretty funny, too. And you can tell where his background lies, cause he takes a pretty technical-minded approach to a lot of common problems in life. It's so interesting that it almost makes me want to be a physics major. But I'm glad I'm at where I'm at.

The one thing that gets me about this guy, though, is how passionate he is about the things he studies. It makes me wonder about what I'm studying right now. I mean, I like what I'm studying, but I never really think about it that much outside of my classes, or get that much more in depth into it compared to other EECS majors I know who get really invested in teaching or innovating new things or are just get that much more involved with technology.

I feel like most of my experience with what I've studied has been confined to my exposure to it in my classes... and then I look at Richard Feynman, who's off trying to fix radios and other physics related problems when he's ten. He just oozes with the kind of passion that obviously led him to study what he decided to study, and he managed to make so much use of what he learned in his everyday situations and circumstances. I feel like I'm just the opposite - I don't really try to apply what I've learned outside of my classes that much. I just learn because I want to know more stuff... but I don't really try taking it to the next level.

Sometimes I wish I had the same kind of passions that Mr. Feynman had. It would really twist my perspective on life around, a lot. But then again, I wouldn't entirely give up the interests I do have right now... although I don't know how much practicality obsessing over good stories has in the long run, compared with physics. Oh well.