✳flâneur — a map of the web's best reading

keonigandall.com/posts/joy_of_engineering.html

keonigandall.com · 447 words · saved by 1 readers

Where is the zest, the gusto, the joy, the love and hate and anger and lust and emotion!? I didn’t learn to bioengineer to make a career, I learned it because it was fun. Because I love it. Many people have other things they love - writing, dance, poetry, film - but this is what I love. And yet I look around, and people don’t care. This is a career. But no. Stop that. I live here. I go out, and I see people making careers. I love going to iGEM because those damn kids haven’t lost it yet. The it that made me start doing all of this. The beauty that stays, independent, from impact, and money, and my ability to pay the rent. To me, the fabric of life is like the artist’s canvas, or the writer’s empty pages. And I think there is beauty in painting and sewing this fabric. I don’t view my life’s work as valuable from a human health perspective or industrial manufacturing standpoint or any other endpoint. I view it as important because it is fun. But now, now I see the structure of it all, th

The Joy of Engineering Back Where is the zest, the gusto, the joy, the love and hate and anger and lust and emotion!? I didn’t learn to bioengineer to make a career, I learned it because it was fun. Because I love it. Many people have other things they love - writing, dance, poetry, film - but this is what I love. And yet I look around, and people don’t care. This is a career. But no. Stop that. I live here. I go out, and I see people making careers. I love going to iGEM because those damn kids haven’t lost it yet. The it that made me start doing all of this. The beauty that stays, independent

Explore this link on the map →

related reading