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Popsicles were boring and stupid, so he broke the rules and did something better. Attitudes like that and skipping school to pull gadgets apart are why he's wo

• Jemaclus 13y ago
  Right, but I'm not sure why they would even bring up the Popsicle thing at all. If I were at my job and my boss told me to do something, and I thought to myself "That's a stupid idea, I'll do something completely different instead," then best case scenario, I get yelled at for wasting company time, and worst case scenario, I get fired. So I'm not clear on why he did that. I mean, if he did it on his own time and for fun, then great, but I don't see why we should be applauding him for not doing the assignment...
  • redthrowaway 13y ago
    >I don't see why we should be applauding him for not doing the assignment... For the same reason he should be applauded for skipping school to work on his side projects: because breaking the rules to do something awesome is good. If he had done the stupid popsicle assignment, he'd still be in school working towards mediocrity. What's the point of that? The only point of the popsicle assignment was to give students something non-threatening to cut their teeth on. It has absolutely zero value outside of that. Clearly, he didn't need coddling, so he took on a bigger challenge -- and succeeded. That's exactly the type of attitude we should applaud.