The Second Law of Thermodynamics-
In an isolated system, entropy can only increase
When translated into everyday language the law means that in an isolated area disorder and chaos can only become more common. It goes on to say that these “closed systems” constantly work toward a state of maximum entropy or disorder. This law summarizes my summer so well that I think it can be used to prove the law.
I began my summer with the idea that my internship would be a carbon copy of my dream career. The equivalent to a “closed system”, I was determined that this plan would carry me to my goals. I “bet the farm” as we would say in Ohio, and before I had even walked into the building had planned out my life according to that principle. I had everything up to graduation and beyond planned. Not only did I believe my plan was set in stone, I also was to live my summer in the close microcosm that was D.C. I only left the city once to go home and my family rarely visited. Everything in my summer combined to create quite the “isolated/closed system”, little did I know how much disorder to my plans it would bring.
As my summer continued, I realized that my plan wouldn’t bring me the happiness that I had once thought it would. Though I loved my internship, I wanted more from life and became bored by my own lack of adventure. I wanted to push every limit I had set for myself and see where I could go. By the time I had reached the halfway mark of the summer I had scrapped my organized and strict plan only to replace it with a multitude of options. Long gone was my “plan” and anything that resembled a set structure for my life.
In D.C. with my life plan (an isolated system), I decided to throw my plan out and go wherever the wind would carry me (entropy can only increase).