Article for 2013 Feb 04

2013

2013 Feb

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Oh Duncan. Your naivety is worthy of inclusion in the Beano, it’s that comic. There is no place in this world for a Latin scholar. You know that. Stop living in lies.

There are abundant and advantageous places for a chemical engineer. You know that you know that. Why do you doubt yourself? You can do this. Have strength. If you can scientifically demonstrate that chemistry really isn’t for you, with a decade or two of evidence, then you can drop out. You can re-train. Re-plan, re-think, reconsider. Whatever. But don’t give up now without trying.

Your mind’s in turmoil at present, like an insurgent in Mali, and in your case you can’t decide who’s al-Qaeda and who’s allied to western civilisation, but it doesn’t matter. No-one’s getting grievously wounded, except your ego. You will find a plentiful land ahead of you, if only you make that trek across the Sahara and the sea. And no, that plentiful land is not Roman any more.