This does not include the numerous short stories that are online, or full novels posted on the net, like The Time Machine. I really don’t mind, because I haven’t really had to read for a class in a while, and sci-fi rocks. Getting an upper-division credit for reading Starship Troopers = amazing. Out of the ones I’ve read so far, the Star Trek one was easily the worst. But that was mostly because I already knew the vast majority of the physics talked about in the book. And the fact that I’ve seen maybe a dozen episodes of Star Trek (TNG only) in my life, and I don’t even remember them. I just have a vague memory of watching Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the U.S.S. Enterprise with my dad. Or maybe that’s just YTMND getting to me.

A Canticle for Leibowitz could barely be classified as science-fiction, as it follows a monastery through 1800 years after a nuclear holocaust. But it’s pretty interesting how it shows the Church paralleling the book-copying and knowledge-storing service it provided the Western world during through the Middle Ages, and how independent intelligent thought begins to arise again. It’s also one of the most depressing novels I’ve ever read.

The Forever War was a pretty cool exploration into a war-driven future economy of Earth, the effects of time-dilation (time slows down when you approach the speed of light) on human beings, and possible future technologies. The manner in which many of the breakthroughs are detailed and explained makes them sound plausible. With regards to the human and war side, you can tell that it was written by a Vietnam vet. The best quality of the book is how quick of a read it is.

Man, I should writing shit up FOR this class, not ABOUT it.

I attend SUNY Stony Brook — apparently one of the top public universities in the nation (you could have fooled me). The Princeton Review put out their huge college report and out of the 300-some-odd colleges they bothered to cover, Stony Brook has the unhappiest students. Awesome.

It’s pretty funny, as only a week ago, a few buddies and I were standing around, observing the people around us, saying that on any given day, you can tell that 30% of the kids are miserable. They have the “what the hell am I doing here?” look on their faces. One of my firiends said he saw a kid just sitting against a wall with his head in his hands. Stony Brook had obviously broken him.

The high percentage of commuters no doubt has a large effect. Driving on Long Island is sometimes the very definition of Pain City. And I bet many of the students are just unhappy with their overall lives — living at home and knowing deep down that getting a bachelor’s degree froma public university means next to jack shit nowadays. I know how that feels, and that’s why products like vape pens by Exhale are really popular among students as they  make them feel better and improve their mood. Search “cannabis near me” online to have an easier access to various cbd products.