Once you have your Philosophy: Apply it

Anyway the previous post was meant to serve as my little philosophical moment to remind myself what my purpose is before I attempt this new challenge of mine.

Disclaimer: Stereotypes can be very dangerous presumptions about a certain group of people that can have negative affects on a person's emotional, mental and physical health when used to prejudge. Please do not assume anyone is a certain way just because of their initial appearance. With that said; stereotypes can be immensely funny, when they involve a hint of truth grossly exaggerated. Read on:

I was sitting contemplating what my friend had recently divulged to me. He said, "Coco, I am Asian, and being Asian I study everyday in the library for like 12 hours. I am basically there from 9am to 12am just reading."

" Concerned with his math I asked "Fan, you are aware that that’s 15 hours right?"

"Well," he said, "I do leave to take food breaks when I need to eat."

"Oh right," I said. At this point I had forgotten he was Asian, not a robot, therefore he does need food. Chinese food perhaps, but food non-the-less.

What does this have to do with anything? Well , as you can see by the former rhetorical question, I am about to tell you. Apparently in the most drawn-out way possible, if I can help it.  The illustration, or indeed "true" story above, inspired me. I thought to myself, self: I have far too much work and far too little time. And furthermore is it even humanly possible to spend that many hours in a library? Well I, unlike my Asian friend have a life and therefore have no stretch of free time that is 17, or even 12 hours long. However, I do have times in my life where I am not in class, at work or driving and I tend to spend the majority of this time not doing my homework.

BUT, what if I followed in my Asian friend's footsteps? What if for 1 week, every bit of spare time, that wasn't already assigned to a regular schedule (ie: at least 6 hours sleep, work, classes, church and Bible study), was spent in the library? Would I get all my homework done? Would I need a stronger prescription of glasses? Would I fall asleep? Would I meet a lot of Asians, or perhaps become indistinguishable from one? Perhaps I would even break the stereotype that Asians are the hardest studiers. Ok, don't dream too far.

So I decided to accept this challenge. This week I will spend all free time in the library, however I may break this by studying in a coffee shop, provided it is a coffee shop where there are many Asians and my time there is spent studying. I figure if the majority of people there are studious Asians, then it is by default now a library. I actually know a few places like that near my home.

So this week my faithful followers (aka: no one so far) I will attempt this challenge. We will see if by next Thursday I have successfully competed it. To make it more clear here are the restrictions and expected results:

Example of Coffee Shops I will Attend

1. I must spend all free time in the library (any library, but probably it will end up being the Biola  library) or a coffee shop that is predominately Asian/studious people Aka: Asian

2. Free time shall be defined as : the hours in which I do not have previously scheduled responsibilities

• Class (5-9 hours depending on the day)
• Church/Chapel (3-4 hours)
• Small Group/Bible Study (2 hours)
• Sleep ( I usually go to bed around 1am and wake up around 8:30am)
• Work ( I have three jobs, nuff said)
• Possibly Eating (not mandatory for studious robots, though regular robots may partake)
• Blogging my updates (limit 30 minutes/day)

3. Even though that seems like a lot of responsibilities I assure you I still manage to have enough free time each week for:

• Parties
• Watching SVU, Glee and Gossip Girl
• Eating
• Talking with my roommates about random life stuff
• Jacuzzi trips
• Eating out
• Concerts
• Light Painting
• Singing songs in Chinese, Portuguese and Hindi

So you see I will be forgoing a lot of important things

Expected Results:

• I expect to find out whether it is physically possible for one to spend all their spare time in the library , as my friend did, or whether they will have extreme side effects such as:
• Brain turning into mush
• Falling asleep, possibly never returning to full sane consciousness
• Turning into a Robot

  

  If I do turn into a Robot I hope I will be cool like this one
  

• Death by overachieving
• Turning into a Socially Inept Zombie
• Losing one's Soul (probably from turning into either a robot or socially inept zombie; of which the robot seems more appealing hmm)

Example of a "Socially Adept" Zombie

 "Socially Inept Zombie"

(Literally I typed "Socially Inept Zombie" into google images and Spock came up practically number one, really I am not surprised)

• If it is physically possibly I hope:
• I will complete most  or all of my assigned work (thus far a rather impossible thing)
• I will no longer doubt my friend when he tells me he has been studying all day
• I will have posted many updates on my blog
• I will have become a better reader/writer, hopefully without losing eyesight
• I will have inspired people everywhere to go to the library! (please read with sarcastic tone)
• I will turn Asian (my deepest darkest dream) (please do not read with sarcastic tone)
• Or I may become this: 

So yeah that’s the challenge, Let's see if by next Thursday I have survived

And if you find this challenge entertaining I am thinking of starting another blog in which I do nothing but accept challenges from people and attempt those challenges  then blog about the attempt. So check out the Link on this blog. I think I will call it "Weekly Challenger" since I will try to limit each challenge to a small measurable amount of time in the form of what we call a "week."