You're Asian, you must be smart, right?

It's whatever time it currently is on whatever day it happens to be, and it's been a pretty interesting day in terms of weather. It's been raining on and off, with lightning and thunder coming along with the rain, and sometimes without. After the day's events of picking up my brother from Holmes, [sorta] entertaining Diana, bowling, and then hanging out at Sean's, I'm now in my room, with my window wide open looking out at the clouded sky. It's pretty dark out there, and I'm glad the light directly outside my room is half-broken, I wish it were just broken all the time though. Lightning has been striking all over the place, at least where I can see, and it's pretty sweet. I seem to find the sound of thunder the more entertaining part though. All the thunder takes about 6-10 seconds to get to me, so it seems like the storm is pretty far away, wherever it is. Most of the lightning has been just flashes, but a few times I've seen very distinct, and very large bolts as well. For now, this very much interests me, which is why I'm posting on it.
On another note, Sean seems to be going away on Saturday morning, Peter shortly after that. I may be going to the state fair later today (Friday), although, if the rain is hanging around, I might opt out.
And there goes another bolt of lightning. Huge one, and the thunder still hasn't sounded, so it's pretty far away. I really do wonder though, where is it hitting? Is it in the middle of a field? Did some poor, lonely tree just get blown up? Or maybe in a forest? I've yet to see a lightning storm occur in a city that I happened to be in, so I don't know how common that is. But the idea that maybe those bolts are hitting people's houses and buildings is somewhat daunting. And another one, phew. Well, it's time to sleep, although I'm probably going to stay up and just watch the sky for at least another 30 minutes ^_^.

Some people give me weird looks when I say I want to be a Philosophy major. Other people quite obviously have very little respect for the major, and there are also those who don't give a damn either way. Not to say there aren't those who support me and think it's cool, I just happen to be talking about everyone else at this point. I wonder though, how many people actually know what it means and what it involves to pursue a major in Philosophy. It's not as though I spend all my time speciously wondering about "Life, the Universe, and Everything". While some people think Philosophy seems flighty and "a lot of people doing a lot of talking, but little of anything else", it's really quite something else. I suppose it's for just that reason I like it so much, there's so much room within the major that I could study many, many things. Unsurprisingly, that's also my reason for studying Electrical Engineering. Anyway, Philosophy has many different subjects to study, and no matter what path you take, there will be work involved. Philosophy is probably most similar to a Comparative Literature major, (I would say English, but English majors deal with just that, English). Comp Lit majors need to be able to read and comprehend well, and need to be able to write and express ideas coherently. This is also exactly what Philo majors need, the two majors just happen to write about different things. Blech, enough of my ranting though, late night insomnia + clear night skies that bring up moments long past = this post and then some.