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May 19, 2004
Last Day of Class
Apparently I enjoyed not doing homework so much on Sunday that I just carried that over into Monday. Instead of, say, studying for E&M or doing research for my art paper, I went to see "Troy" in Mankato with Josh, Erin, Nate, Andy, Amy & Johann. I really liked it actually, despite the discrepancies with Homer's "The Iliad." Perhaps the most maddening discrepancy was when in the movie, Agamemnon died at Troy at the hands of Prisaeis (spelling?). Ach! But all in all, I thought the movie was pretty well done. The movie is pretty sympathetic towards Hector and Priam, as their characters were likable and noble. It wasn't as good as "Gladiator," but it was still a good movie, I'd recommend it.
Tuesday it was study study study for the E&M test. I didn't really do much else, apart from go to the last Proclaim of the year in the evening as a wonderful study break. It's sad, no more Proclaim for me until next spring. And it was the last Proclaim as Gustavus students for quite a few people, including my friends Nate and Tasha, which was also kinda sad. But they ended it with singing a lot of people's "favorites," so that was pretty cool.
This morning it was time for the lovely E&M test that I biffed. It was frustrating, because I knew it wasn't that hard of a test, either. I just didn't recognize a couple of the tricks that made the problems extremely simple. Argh. I expect I got somewhere in the C range. At least I'm fairly sure that I didn't continue the pattern established by my first three tests, a 90, 53 and 90. But on the plus side, today was the last day of classes! It hasn't quite sunk in yet, but I'm done with classes here at Gustavus until Spring 2005. Kinda scary, yet kinda cool. But I took advantage of a few minutes of free time to finally turn in some important paperwork to the registrar, including my application for graduation, and my approval form to register for classes while abroad. Very important pieces of paper.
This afternoon I went down to MSU-Mankato for a chat with Cecil, and some advice on Australia and academics while I'm there, since he's been to Australia many times (his wife Colleen is from there). He was quite happy to see that I'd purchased a Macintosh 15" PowerBook. :-)
And then just about as I was to head down to the Proclaim BBQ Picnic at Swede Park with Erin, there was a sudden deluge of nickel- to quarter-sized hail for about 2-3 minutes. Kind of a freak storm, but then it poured for awhile. We ended up walking to the picnic anyway, and got soaked in the process.
After that I came back to the section to watch Game 7 between the Timberwolves and Kings with Seth and John. Man, what an exciting game! I can't say enough about Kevin Garnett, and what an awesome player he is. He really put the Wolves on his back and carried them to the 83-80 nailbiter victory. KG proved tonight why he's the MVP. Bring on the Lakers!
After the game it was time to buckle down to homework, right? Well, not quite. I got involved in a few conversations that successfully distracted me from the majority of the homework I was hoping to accomplish, hehe. Namely, get all my research done to write my paper for my art final that's coming up on Friday. Hopefully I can get that done in the morning, so that I can have all afternoon to study for Friday morning's cumulative E&M final. Deep breath. Don't panic. But tomorrow's also the day of the last Pizza Ranch run of the year, so that'll be fun. Hmm, if I had put this effort into writing my paper, maybe I could've gotten somewhere... Nah.
Posted by Jared at May 19, 2004 11:56 PM