Finally...Encouragement, The Norm? & 2 DLT'd Posts

6:34 PM
So today i had to to AFL (alameda free library) for my "interview" for homework coaching..(it was less an interview more of a "get to know you"...since ive been there for 2 years lol.) Well, something happened before my interview that i felt had at least God's fingertip in it. You see, i arrived at 3:40 (interview was at 3:50). I was directed to a spot to wait outside the room. It just so happens that a slightly chubby (asian i presume) man in his 30's was sitting at the same table i was at, on his laptop. Well, after about 4 minutes, the stranger asks me what kind of interview i was here for, and i tell him. We strike up some small talk, and he tells me how its so much harder to get into colleges now, with so many people, and yet we are so lucky that everyone has a cell phone and that we have the internet. He asks me what career im going into, and i say, well..i dont really know... and Mr. stranger (i still dont know his name) gives me the only advice he could, that was a referral to a book called "What Color is Your Parachute" By Richard Nelson Bolles. Picture of the book
and that Mr. Bolles came out with a new one each year. He tells me that he read a version when he was 20, and that he wished he read it at 16. I could not believe that some stranger outside of my interview room would care the least about my future, even so much so to give me advice on it. After my interview, we shook hands and he gave me the last bit of advice, to have a firm handshake :P
I walked away, with a grin, quite happy that i had this sudden occurance. I tried to find this book in the library, but sadly it was either checked out or it was never in the library. I doubt this was ever a coincidence, and i do hope to see this man again.
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Whats a "normal person?" Is it just plainly the majority of people? If so, then how does one define the norm?
Consider this:
If say, 70% of a population was Caucasian, then a normal person would be caucasian.
If say, 80% of the people had blonde hair, then the normal person would be blonde.
If say, 74% of the population like chicken filled hot sauce fish burger beef steak, then the normal person would like it.
And it goes on, and on, and on...with every last detail, stating what the majority of the populus has or likes. Now, whats the probability of a scientist, singling out one person out of EVERYONE that has EVERY SINGLE one of these characteristics? um..can anyone say ZERO..well..Zero point zero zero zero one?
So in that case, is there really a "normal person?" Can we say, well the normal person has a 3.57 GPA? In theory, NO!!! Everyone has too many factors and characteristics to be put into one category of Normal.
Yet we still say, well..."hes not normal" or "a normal person doesnt do this"
people, you CANT establish a NORM!!! not 68% not 95% not 99.9%! (aka the 3 deviations lol..stats stuff :P)
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Oh yeah, i deleted 2 of my old posts on this blog. cuz i felt like it.
GL -> GJ -> GG :D
Good luck, good job, good game.
8:12 (took me almost 2 hrs for this lol, but i did take breaks.)