I feel a little strange about doing this because in my mind, there are two types of people that write blogs: those who go out of the country for extended periods of time, and those who live in their mom's basement and spend what little time they're not on WoW writing about the latest technology news. Most of you know that I am not living in my mom's basement, and the geographically gifted amongst you know that North Carolina is not another country. So, given that information, most of you are probably assuming that this is going to be the third kind of blog, the kind that are written by people who pretentiously assume that everyone in the world wants to spend their time reading about what they had for breakfast yesterday and how disappointed they were by the stuffed french toast at IHOP and how they so totally should have gotten waffles. I can assure you that I will not be writing posts like that (I like waffle house way better).
Blah blah blah lame jokes about bloggers get to the point, right? Okay, here goes. Three reasons that I am blogging(in order of decreasing importance):
1. As I have been reading Jake, Gunnar, and Alissa's blogs I've been thinking that maybe if I went on a long term mission trip I would start a blog. Having been raised by good Calvinist parents, I have been lectured many times on the idea of vocation and calling, so I know that I should be a missionary no matter where I am and no matter what I am doing. I have struggled with my choice of major for years now, and have always come to the same difficult conclusion that it is nearly impossible that God is calling me to anything besides engineering. The difficulty there is that being an engineer is really easy for me. Being an engineer and making sure that I am serving the Lord to my fullest abilities is very difficult. It's easy for me to serve God by working hard to find an optimal control for the system or the most efficient, lowest cost circuit, or whatever I actually end up doing in school, but I know it will often be difficult for me to deliberately impact those around me. The goal is that writing this stuff down will help me be intentional and contemplative about my thoughts and actions.
2. I want to discuss ideas about faith, politics, ethics, and everyday life and have useful feedback from people that I respect.
3. My writing has suffered greatly since leaving college. Hopefully this will help, since I hear some grad schools make you write stuff.
So this is just my introduction post that's basically useless as you've noticed by now. Hopefully I'll have something worth reading on here eventually, but I wouldn't count on it if I were you. You can't say I didn't warn you.
