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May 25, 2004
Done With Finals!
I'm DONE with finals! Woohoo! My Japanese final yesterday went pretty well, it took all of 35 minutes to do. Then it was time to struggle to find any motivation at all to study for Adv Math Methods. Oh gosh, all of us were so tired of studying that by yesterday we didn't care anymore. All any of us did was make our notepage that we could take into the test. We just didn't feel like doing one iota more of studying, partly because we just couldn't wait to be all done with finals, and partly because we didn't feel like we knew what we could possibly study to prepare for it. We were just all in a fog most of the semester in that class. And the math final this morning was HARD. Holy cow, it was one of the hardest tests any of us had ever taken. But I think I actually escaped the final with a reasonable grade. I don't know how, but somehow I managed to do alright (I think). I know, it's amazing for not caring about it at all. I got so fed up with studying last night that I even played Halo for over an hour when I got back to my room. :-)
So then I got everything moved out of my room, and said goodbye to a few of my friends. I didn't get a chance to say bye to as many as I would've liked, but oh well. Hopefully I'll see many of them again before I leave. But the drive back was fairly uneventful, apart from a $230 stop at Galyan's in Bloomington, hehe. It was primarily stuff for Australia -- a new and bigger backpack (for school and camping), a laptop case that fits in the backpack, a sleeping bag and travel/camping pillow that both fit in really small bags, a nalgene, and a carabener. At least signing up for a Galyan's card took 10% off, to ease some of the financial pain... I still have some other stuff to get, like new shoes and stuff like that, and now that finals are over I can actually have time to think/worry about all that.
Sigh, tomorrow I have to start unpacking all my stuff. I don't know where I'm gonna put it all, since I technically don't have a room anymore here at home. And hopefully I'll get to hang out with Janelle tomorrow night! She's studying abroad for a year in China, and she's leaving for that on Friday, so time's running short.
I'm sure most of you have seen previews for the upcoming movie, "The Day After Tomorrow," or heard so-called 'news' stories connected to it about the 'impending/inevitable' global warming 'disaster.' Well, in case it wasn't obvious, the movie is based 100% on junk science. Patrick Michaels, who has conducted some amazing research on global warming, had an op-ed in today's USA Today in which he laid out just how ludicrous this movie's scenarios really are. Bowling-ball-sized hail? Hurricanes hitting Belfast? The Gulf Stream stopping? Oh please, give me a break. Anyone that's pushing this movie as actual science (and that includes Algore, George Soros and the people at MoveOn.org) is either out of their mind, completely ignorant of the laws of physics, or willingly trying to deceive the public (or all three).
I still can't believe that my junior year is over. It went by so fast. But I'm done with finals! That's reason enough for celebration!
Posted by Jared at May 25, 2004 11:52 PM