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May 23, 2004
2 down, 2 to go
Well, I'm in the midst of finals season yet again, it's a bittersweet time of year. On Thursday a bunch of us took a study break and drove up to Pizza Ranch in Le Seuer for the final Pizza Ranch run of the year. **tear** I spent most of the day writing my paper for my art final, I chose to write it on this really cool 1st century B.C. Greek bronze sculpture called "Lo Spinario."
Friday morning it was time for the E&M final, which actually went fairly well. I only biffed on one of the five problems, but I think I got enough points to at least salvage it. So I think I can realistically hope for a high B/low A on the final! In the afternoon it was time to go to Prof. Pat Freiert's house for the Visual Experience final. Let me tell you, that was the coolest final EVER! All nine of us discussed a bunch of slides as a class, it was money! The most stress-free final I've ever taken, bar none. Pat even made tea and had cherries for us! That's why we love having Pat as a prof. :-) Friday night was time for a well-deserved study break, which consisted primarily of Starcraft.
On Saturday afternoon my parents came down to take some of my stuff back up to Cumberland, like my carpet and my bookcase, so that I'd for sure be able to get everything else into my car on Tuesday. I still have a fair amount of stuff, but it'll be much easier to pick up and go on Tuesday, especially now that I've sorted through a bunch of junk that I had sitting around all over. Saturday night after a bunch of us watched "Shrek 2" here in the section (which was quite good, by the way), it was time for more Starcraft and Halo, yay!
This morning it was time to actually start studying again, sigh. So much Japanese vocab to review... But then this afternoon it was time for the annual Physics Picnic, which got moved from Swede Park to the Interpretive Center because of the persistent rain most of the day. But before the actual picnic several of us went over to D.C.'s house to see his model train collection and track setup down in his basement. It was pretty sweet! I got some pictures, but unfortunately I can't put any of them up because my digital camera has started eating floppy disks and causing them to have format errors, argh! Maybe I'll get my new camera a bit sooner than I was originally thinking... But anyways, D.C. also has a pretty cool vintage 50s pinball machine. Let's just say real pinball is far more difficult than pinball on the computer, sigh.
Then at the picnic, the seniors celebrated by burning one of their copies of Weber & Arfken from last year, and we juniors burned everything that had been put into the Failure Hole in our office. Man that felt good! Unfortunately, I didn't win the "Positive Derivative Award" for the third consecutive year, as Brendan nabbed it this year. Oh well, it was time for a new face up there anyway, hehe. (For those of you unfamiliar with the award, the physics department awards the positive derivative award to one student from each class every year for showing the most consistent upward trend in grades throughout the course of the year.)
Since the picnic it's been a little bit of studying, a whole lot of T'Wolves-Lakers action (tied 1-1 now!), and a fair amount of Halo. I've played far more games the last three days than the entire rest of the semester combined, it's been awesome. Seth came over for the second half of the Wolves game, and Cory and Carl showed up for the fourth quarter, so it was pretty fun to watch the Wolves 89-71 triumph over the hated Lakers. BEAT L.A.!
Congratulations to Mike for getting a $1000 scholarship this morning from his church, First Lutheran! Way to go Mike! In other scholarship news, I found out that I was not selected for the Datatel Scholarship. Sigh. I had been nominated by Gustavus for it back in February, and I thought I had a really good chance at that one too. Oh well.
Check out this article to see how Bill Cosby showed some real moxie in a speech that had NAALCP president Kweisi Mfume stone-faced! And check out the story of this soldier telling his story about his experience in Iraq. Since the mainstream media is refusing to cover the truth of what's going on over there and are thus misleading the American public, we're fortunate that we have other people who have actually been in the middle of firefights over there that are willing to set the record straight like this soldier.
Well, I suppose I should actually start studying or just go to bed. My Japanese final is at 1pm, and then as soon as that's done it's time to start studying for the Advanced Math Methods final, which is Tuesday at 10:30am. Once that's done it's time to pack up and move out of Gustavus. I doubt that I'll have time to post tomorrow, so this is in all likelihood my last post from Gustavus for quite some time (like until at least January 2005). But no worries, I'll still make sure I post at least somewhat regularly from home.
Posted by Jared at May 23, 2004 11:57 PM