Privilege

How many times have you heard an old man yell: "back in the day, we never had the things you young folk have today, life was so much harder..."? The truth is most people, especially teenagers, would brush them off as senile fools who've lost grip of the world. It takes a lot sometimes to sit back and reflect on how much privilege we really have, something reading a lot of sociology blogs has compelled me to do (particularly those on feminism).

Father's Day

It's been a day since father's day, well two technically as i write this well after midnight but i would just like to say a big thank you to all fathers out there because let's face it, without them, some of us would not be able to drive, play sports, attempt to fix things and pretend to know things. Also we would not know what it's like not to be embarrassed around friends or awkwardly have "the talk".

Conspiracy Theories

So the other day, being almost more than a week ago now due my laziness and tardiness to post, i was talking with a friend about conspiracy theories. For all those who don't know what i'm referring to, i'm talking about all the crazy phenomenon that can't be explained by science, and as a student of science, i am naturally intrigued. UFOs, 9/11, the Bermuda Triangle, the list goes on for conspiracy theories, and much like the porn theorem that states that if you can think of it, there probably exists a pornography that matches, as does the conspiracy theory theorem. My favourite of course is how there is always an inkling that my life is like The Truman show.

Holiday to home

They say it only takes two weeks to get used to something new in your life and i felt the full impact of this when i returned home for the semester break over the past three weeks. Quite strangely, it was getting used to something old in my life - the sights and sounds that i had grown accustomed to throughout my childhood were once again so ingrained in my routine for more than two weeks that it almost felt that i had never left, that i was home once again, but then reality hits and i'm back interstate for another semester of study.