We humans have plenty of hangups, even when it comes to intelligence. We all compare ourselves to who is dumber or smarter than we are, and whichever way we go, we tend to feel contempt at times because of what we do or do not know. Being smart, however, has its rewards when applied properly.
I had a few opportunities to apply my analytic mind to situations. They may not be big situations, but taking a moment to figure something out is rather cool. It’s the reward of sentience and humanity doing its most good. Here is one.
I was handling a backlog of requests for email responses (because I’ve been hauling food for the past two weeks, as previously noted). One email came up for somebody whom we will call John Q. I was supposed to email him at Yukon, which had an email designating it an educational address. Of course there is a Yukon territory which has a college, but when I tried to send the email, it bounced back. I tried checking the official record, but the student had not recorded the email to refer back to. Then I looked at the home address, and it hit me: the student was at a kind of “Yukon,” but it was the University of Connecticut, known as “U-Conn” for short. The email went out with no problem.
I wonder what would happen if two students from Connecticut and Canada met and had this culture shock of two “Yukons.” If they’re educated right, they’d know the difference.
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