Capitalist Brain Blast

Just briefly, I am back at college. I moved into my new dorm with my best friend, Spencer Gilbert, last Friday and so far I haven't been disappointed. Well okay, maybe just a little in one isolated area. My new dorm is really ghetto compared to my last dorm. Everything is half the size. We have one bathroom with showers half the size. As I said on Facebook, they get up to about my nipples so I spend a lot of time hunched over in the shower. Good morning, right?

Other than that though, it really has been a blast.

Spencer is a fantastic roommate. He even comes to the gym with me when he doesn't want to and stays up doing random stuff with me into the night.

It is kind of weird to see my high school friends walking around my college campus. Partially because of summer semester, those parts of my life seem totally separate now. I imagine it is much the same feeling as one would get if they ran into an ex at their anniversary. Not that it's a bad thing though, I love getting to party with them and knowing select people around campus is loads of fun and has helped me meet even more new friends.

My classes are a bit...different from summer semester as well. I'm taking the book of mormon in a class hundreds of students big and Economics in a class that is significantly bigger than my entire graduating class at dear old AF high. I've also got Biology, which is a required, but hated area of learning, as well as two history classes. Combined with Economics, my US History class fills the American heritage requirement, and puts me a step closer to my history major for which I am taking the Historian's craft.

I'm also considering switching majors. a week after I signed on.

Why?

Because I finally had my first capitalist brain blast.

Since I was a kid, I've been trying to figure out that one niche I can fit into to become enormously successful. One need I can fill, one new idea I can have, something I can do better than everyone else.

No joy until a week ago when I found my new dream.

I was actually talking to Spencer about how he could be successful in engineering. I suddenly had the realization that space is the future so an aero-space engineer could do extremely well if he worked hard enough. Then I realized I wasn't thinking big enough and neither was anyone else.

My new dream is to open up space for the world. Not just the occasional shuttle launch into the earth's orbit. I mean other planets, other solar systems. Other places people could find a home.

Sounds pretty crazy huh? Not to mention nerdy...

But if someone could do that, if someone could make it cost effective to go into space, that would be a start. Cars weren't a big deal until people could actually afford them. The same thing goes in this situation. There is barely any benefit at all for the majority of people for NASA to be able to launch satellites that cost hundreds of millions of dollars. You need to drive costs way down to establish a real foothold.

The fact is that if you give people three things, the galaxy opens up. MTC: Motivation, Transportation, and Communication. If you give people a reason to need space, whether it be for corporate access to resources or a second home for the refugees of the world, they will look for ways to achieve their goals. If you find a way to travel at something approaching the speed of light, or even faster, then the motivation becomes real and the industry will skyrocket. From there, we just need a method of instantaneous communication and the galaxy is open.

I actually have ideas on how to achieve all three, but that would be telling wouldn't it?

Because of this goal, I'm considering switching not to science, but to an economic major. It is going to take more than just one man to achieve this dream. Someone needs to lay the ground work for an entire industry dedicated to reaching the stars. Corporations have to be built with a larger perspective than Space X. I can only do those things if I understand business and economics.

Well, I've clearly unleashed my dork side, but at the same time, the idea is too exciting for me to abandon just yet. We'll see what happens this semester before I ditch my history track.

Not really any new art I've encountered. The Walking Dead and the Office just keep getting better, but other than that, we'll have to see what happens this week.

Stay hot.