Bubble Building and Bursting

Social experiment

I work in low income housing programing. For tonights event I ordered less than enough pizza. I am observing if people will on their own be less wasteful than the time I over ordered pizza (I saw many half eaten slices in the trash can) I will eyeball the results- half eaten slices and rejected crusts counting or hinting at wasteful.

I am also monitoring if people are more inclined to take more  since they are early, or if they demonstrate sympathy for those that will arrive late and find that the pizza is gone. (I will order more no worries but just to see).

7:11pm update

People started by taking one slice- except for a couple who took two each. (that’s half a pizza!). The kids this time however were only give one slice each, and the picky eaters (younger kids) were not given any.

7:27 pm update

A child came to the pizza table went right over to grab a slice. For the first time during my time here I heard a parent say NO, you don’t really want that. I believe this mother is thinking about the others who are now 30 minutes late.
In the end the child was given a second slice. There are now 2 more slices left (from 3 pizzas). 

7:35 pm Update

A child came to the pizza table (different one). There is a closed pizza box that is empty next to me. She snuck up to it and I looked at her- no emotion- but she stopped when we made eye contact. I looked away and she started again. she sneakily opened the box- saw there were no contents and left. I must add she has a half eaten pizza slice on her plate in the table in front of me. I do wonder why she wants more if she has not finished her first slice.

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"You know what they say: if at first you don’t succeed, f**k it."

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Gail Albert Halaban - Out My Window

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Now what

“I see education as a means to an end”

She said it so surely. So perfectly in her office in Downtown Washington D.C. Traces of her success plastered on the walls and her importance evident from the piles of files stacked on her ‘L’ shaped desk.

I didn’t realize it on the spot, I couldn’t, for I was flabbergasted at the glamour, BUT I probably will never be able to agree. ‘Education as a means to an end’, that motto proved to get her through law school, grad school, the job search, everything that lead to her rightfully claiming that seat across from me in that tall, tall building.

Seeing her in her success. Listening to how her life unfolded with her having a clear idea of what exactly she wanted, and using education to get there I should most  definitely attempt to internalize that idea- Education as a means to an end.

But I am not, I cannot. Though she is right, and I know it deep down, I simply am unable to view education in that way, as a tool. It isn’t a tool, it couldn’t be, it has never been, at least not for me.

In high school I couldn’t be so presumptuous, pompous, and positive to think that college would happen. Still I slaved away at my studies, not expecting the natural end of going to college, but expecting to achieve good grades for the sake of it. In college (after a small miracle that granted me the chance to actually go) I again attempted to keep up. This time I could not expect much at the end. The classes I took, the education I received would in fact, and have in fact lead no where. NO WHERE.

There is no majestic end. Education, for me in my circumstance can not be a means to an end, because in reality that end has been forbidden for students like me. the dreamers. So in fact, I learned, studied and excelled for the sole sake of doing those things. Learning for the sake of learning. Enjoying education for the majestic ride it is, not simply because it is a widely known tool to land a great job, a dream.

So what can I take away from that conversation. That I am prone to failure because I won’t be able to see education how it is supposed to be utilized. That I will have a harder time finding the end I want. perhaps. I think most of all I can take away that I am still a peculiar case.

As a teammate once put it- “you’re a strange bird”. Indeed I am.

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My Chemical Romance, The Black Parade. 

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Lol, oh nooo!

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