Tim Cameron Ryan
Computer stuff maker from Boston, Massachusetts.
Student at Olin College of Engineering.
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Passion Pit Pursuits
Olin has these nifty things called “Passionate Pursuits” where you get to take an (essentially) one-credit course per semester on a topic of your choosing. For example:
- Ice Skating
- Pottery
- Clay Shooting
- Glassblowing
- Piano lessons
- Slam poetry
- Cooking for Singles
…you get the idea. You write up a proposal and get it approved though the Passionate Pursuits Board. You can even get funding, up to about $200, for lessons or equipment. It’s pretty ballin’.
Naturally Olin classes are workload enough and I’ve put it off first semester. But half-semester classes having just ended, I decided that starting a Passionate Pursuit midway through a semester (despite doubling the number of hours per week I’d need to work at it) would be better than nothing. I decided, ultimately, a good use of my time would be guitar lessons, since it’s been on my To-Do list for years.
Of course, the very week applications are due, I discover there’s no funding left. I’m left in the same boat as every other-last minute applicant. Whoops.
…until I realize, wait, I already have a guitar.
…and I already have lessons. It’s the Internet.
So paperwork be damned, I’m going to learn how to play guitar by summer. Just like Facebook, it needn’t be written down to still be official. (gg.)
Don’t you hate it when the only thing holding you back is thinking you need a reason?
