{"id":1975,"date":"2015-07-06T23:38:41","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T06:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/?p=1975"},"modified":"2015-07-06T23:39:04","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T06:39:04","slug":"a-brief-thought-about-summer-and-lingering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/a-brief-thought-about-summer-and-lingering\/","title":{"rendered":"a brief thought about summer and lingering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly before school ended I had a conversation with Geoffrey on the bench by Ledden Auditorium instead of going to class. We met a few years earlier.\u00a0He would tutor me in the AP&amp;M (Applied Physics and Mathematics) basement, and if it weren&#8217;t for him I would have <a href=\"http:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/you-must-love-the-math\/\">flunked out of calculus<\/a> my first year. He&#8217;s a Ph.D. student now and I&#8217;m still an undergrad, but we enjoy the same benches and beaches and books, and we bump into each other from time to time.<\/p>\n<p>Skipping lecture runs contrary to the good-student-role, but I also remembered to keep it in perspective. There&#8217;s more to enjoy and learn from lingering on the bench\u00a0with a good person instead of rushing from lecture to lecture, so I could cram\u00a0a few extra facts I&#8217;d\u00a0soon forget.<\/p>\n<p>We talked\u00a0about summer, among other things.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Summers are some of the best times of personal growth. You have time to reflect and take stock of all that you&#8217;ve done throughout the year. <em> Am I going where I want to go? What are my priorities? Do my actions align with what I consider important to me?\u00a0<\/em>and other questions that often get buried in everyday busy work.<\/li>\n<li>Also important is to cherish the current summer we have. There are really only a limited number of &#8220;true&#8221; restful, even idle summers in life. After I graduate (next year, eek!) there&#8217;s probably not going to be another summer when I can just stick my head in the clouds all day &#8212; unless I decide to go into academia. As for Geoffrey, he&#8217;s going on a cross-continental (the way he described it) road trip from California to New York and back over the summer, with a good friend from his exchange year. He says if he survives he&#8217;ll come back with good stories.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When I finally said goodbye, Geoffrey said: &#8220;I&#8217;m glad you stayed around as long as you did.&#8221; Me, too.<\/p>\n<p>~<\/p>\n<p>~<\/p>\n<p>30 minutes late. Too late to sneak in without a sound or people looking, but I went in the lecture hall anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly before school ended I had a conversation with Geoffrey on the bench by Ledden Auditorium instead of going to class. We met a few years earlier.\u00a0He would tutor me in the AP&amp;M (Applied Physics and Mathematics) basement, and if it weren&#8217;t for him I would have flunked out of calculus my first year. 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