Don't post any bills in my mind.

I n a recent issue of 'The NewYorker' I saw and ad for Columbia University:

'Einstein did his greatest thinking while walking on the beach'

below that, gates of the school sat open, it was followed by:

'Where will you do yours?'

Is self contemplation dead?

Am I conditioned not to be alone with myself?

You are beckoned to be groomed for a life of office sickness, greed and helping your peers recieve a check every month as they sit aging with no exposed creativity.

The blackberry, Ipod, starbucks is there weaponed to keep you on the treadmill to and fro
There is no question Einstein changed our perspective on ourselves and our relation to the universe, but I will be damn if I can't discover my purpose while staring into the heavens as well.

Sure schools opens us to interesting philosophies, but only so we can compare them to our own.