The summer is a wonderful time in the life of a fraternity member. We don't have to worry about many of the things that your average student does. I won't have to look for a new apartment for the fall and I don't even have to take classes to keep living here like people in the dorms. On top of this I still have a place where I can party whenever I feel like it. We also have freedoms that renters don't. I have a friend who can't leave his apartment empty for more than five days without paying extra so the landlord can keep up on the chores of the house. We definitely do not have anything here like that.
Now without classes and the majority of the student body being out of town for the next few months, it may seem like our lives here would get pretty boring. This of course is not true since we still have the organization of the fraternity to worry about. This inclusion is something that won't really ever go away for any of us even long after we have graduated and gone on to bigger and better things. My task for the summer has shifted from being a freshman servant for the last year of my life to being the interior decorator of the frat. I have to go around and do an inventory of all of the things which need replaced or updated to keep us up to code and to keep us functioning for as long as possible in the next year without having to buy any new supplies for house repairs or updates. These are the more technical things though because I also get to go out and find new bar stools since some were broken during the course of the year. We also need Counter Stools for the kitchen since we are getting it remodeled in July and then we'll have a full time cook as well.
This summer should be pretty fun for me here, all things considered. I'll get to lay in the sun and study code. I hit the bars and the hit the home furniture stores. I'll chill by the pool and then go home and try out my new Dining Chair which I will be having personalized for myself as part of a set for everyone. We'll see though, it might be more exhausting than I know.
Now without classes and the majority of the student body being out of town for the next few months, it may seem like our lives here would get pretty boring. This of course is not true since we still have the organization of the fraternity to worry about. This inclusion is something that won't really ever go away for any of us even long after we have graduated and gone on to bigger and better things. My task for the summer has shifted from being a freshman servant for the last year of my life to being the interior decorator of the frat. I have to go around and do an inventory of all of the things which need replaced or updated to keep us up to code and to keep us functioning for as long as possible in the next year without having to buy any new supplies for house repairs or updates. These are the more technical things though because I also get to go out and find new bar stools since some were broken during the course of the year. We also need Counter Stools for the kitchen since we are getting it remodeled in July and then we'll have a full time cook as well.
This summer should be pretty fun for me here, all things considered. I'll get to lay in the sun and study code. I hit the bars and the hit the home furniture stores. I'll chill by the pool and then go home and try out my new Dining Chair which I will be having personalized for myself as part of a set for everyone. We'll see though, it might be more exhausting than I know.
In my cell biology class the other day we had an ethics talk about new
things coming out and what is right or wrong in our opinion. An article
came up about two parents who were deaf and they wanted their son or
daughter (they didn't care boy or girl) to be deaf as well. So they
told the doctor to pick the embryo that would produce a child that was
deaf
like them so that the child could fit into their family better.
We talked about how we felt about this and most of the class thought that is wasn't right for the parents to be able to decide that for the child. Without the child knowing he was destined for a life of hearing aids and struggles. Of course it isn't terrible to be deaf, but having to wear hearing aids and having problems causing them to frequent doctors' offices shouldn't be what parents wish upon their children.
It was really a heated discussion. Most of the class agreed that the parents were wrong to do this (it is like wishing your child had a disorder or disease) but one person thought that parents should be able to do whatever they want with their embryos.
If I was a parent who decided to do this I would definitely need some sort of sleep aid to go to bed at night. I am completely against this and feel that you should want your child to be healthy in any way possible and should love them the way that they come out.
We went on to talk about a lot of other topics as well like knowing what diseases your embryos may carry and insurance policies and testing on humans and so on, but this one topic really stood out to me and stuck in my mind. I feel like people shouldn't be able to change who you are before you are born without you having any say in it. I guess though that's an issue that I will have to deal with in the field that I am going into (pharmacy and research) and I will need to form a strong opinion on my beliefs before I enter the field. I definitely want to practice fair and impartial medicine when I'm a pharmacist one day but then at the same time I need to make sure that I stay true to everything that I believe in.
We talked about how we felt about this and most of the class thought that is wasn't right for the parents to be able to decide that for the child. Without the child knowing he was destined for a life of hearing aids and struggles. Of course it isn't terrible to be deaf, but having to wear hearing aids and having problems causing them to frequent doctors' offices shouldn't be what parents wish upon their children.
It was really a heated discussion. Most of the class agreed that the parents were wrong to do this (it is like wishing your child had a disorder or disease) but one person thought that parents should be able to do whatever they want with their embryos.
If I was a parent who decided to do this I would definitely need some sort of sleep aid to go to bed at night. I am completely against this and feel that you should want your child to be healthy in any way possible and should love them the way that they come out.
We went on to talk about a lot of other topics as well like knowing what diseases your embryos may carry and insurance policies and testing on humans and so on, but this one topic really stood out to me and stuck in my mind. I feel like people shouldn't be able to change who you are before you are born without you having any say in it. I guess though that's an issue that I will have to deal with in the field that I am going into (pharmacy and research) and I will need to form a strong opinion on my beliefs before I enter the field. I definitely want to practice fair and impartial medicine when I'm a pharmacist one day but then at the same time I need to make sure that I stay true to everything that I believe in.