Sunday, November 06, 2005

developmental milestones

Why does folk psychology pretend that human development is complete at age four? We commemorate peoples' first words and sentences but tend not to follow-up with the rest of the story:

age at first multiauthored grant proposal
age at which first smoked down
age of first sexual encounter with married person
age at first impulse to drop out of graduate school and {insert auspicious-sounding idea here:set up fruitstand, write underground for cheapessays.com... }
age at which first stuck entire arm up horses' rectum during vet school

5 comments:

neal said...

lol!!!!!

Anonymous said...

#1: 22
#2 and #4: 23
# 3 and #5: 24

Hilary said...

We're cohorts, at least according to this timeline.

I did beat you to #3 by 8 years (me: 16), but that's not exactly something I'm proud of.

Anonymous said...

my sister is a vetrinarian and she used to have a shirt from msu that said "MSU Vet school" or something on the front, and on the back it had a picture of someone with an arm up a cow and the caption: "The hard part is getting in."

I chose English.

Anonymous said...

They still make those shirts.