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Perfect Timing: A Personal Connection to the Grind

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As an individual, my final project was to think about the song of the Perfect Timing by Shedeur Sanders and its relationship with my life. Rather than upload a video or a site, this time I will just present a written review here, so you could read your way further into my thoughts and how this song made me ponder about my personal experiences. This song does not refer only to football or success, it represents the attitude and the process of struggling to achieve something when everyone is not sure about you yet, but you have to press on, you have to keep on pushing, you have to be patient and hold back, that is what this song is about. I related to that message. One of the lines that I liked was: They was on top of me, I did not trip, I continued working. The lyrics brought me back to a period when I was not appreciated in school or a group assignment or even those cases where I was working on myself. I did not announce it like Sanders did either, I kept my head down and kept on track...
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An Existentialist Reading of Einstein’s Later Life

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   All right, so I will be frank, I did not read Einstein: His Life and Universe to get invested on an emotional level. I expected I would be reading about black holes and formulas that went right over my head. However, what I received, particularly in the latter half of the book, was something that strangely resonated with my own doubts, concerns, and definitions of meaning, purpose, and the notion of making a choice of what you are. I read it through the existentialist perspective , and I began to view Einstein not only as a genius of science, but as a man who always had to struggle with the burden of freedom. Free, as in not tied to an operative system. That type of freedom where you must fully own your choices, including the ones that do not feel good. Sartre refers to it as being condemned to be free- which essentially translates to there being no other person to blame your life other than yourself. One incident that always deeply reluctantly remained with me was that of...
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