Baltimore-bound!

Just a quick little post here. All of yesterday’s studying for Rad Tran turned out to be all but fruitless, as this morning’s exam savaged each and every one of us. It was just way too long, again. What is it with profs writing impossibly long exams that they intend to be finished in a mere 55 minutes? Sigh. Just like for the last GFD test, everyone can take at least 10-20 points straight off the top from questions they didn’t get to. I only left a 10-pointer blank, but towards the end I was just putting stuff down on a couple parts so that I’d at least have an answer, even though I knew it was almost certainly wrong. Call it making an offering to the god of partial credit. We’ll see if Dr Clothiaux looks with favor on my jottings… And then immediately following failing the Rad Tran test (okay, so perhaps I won’t have failed, but I still did poorly regardless), we got our GFD tests back. At least that was a little ray of sunshine in my morning, with a 70, which is a bit better than I’d been anticipating (and slightly above the class mean).
Once I was done with those two classes I didn’t really feel like doing any work, so I just made multiple trips over to the main meteo office, where the secretaries were throwing a tailgate party to cheer on Penn State in their final regular game of the year tomorrow at Michigan State. If the Nittany Lions win, they clinch the Big Ten title and a berth in one of the BCS bowls, most likely either the Orange or Fiesta Bowl! Let’s Go State! Tomorrow’s gonna be a great day of college football, with Minnesota-Iowa (with “Floyd of Rosedale” on the line), Michigan-Ohio State and Auburn-Alabama (the Iron Bowl) also on the docket. I just hope I get to catch a little bit of it tomorrow.
So why might I not get to watch much college football tomorrow, you ask? Well, I’m actually about to head out the door to Baltimore, to Carl’s apartment down there, to hang out with him and a few other Gusties, namely Seth, Jess & Betsy. Should be a good time, regardless of what we do! Tonight we’re going to the new “Harry Potter” movie, so I need to get to Baltimore early enough so that I can have the plots from the first three books/movies explained to me, since I haven’t read or seen anything Harry Potter yet. I’ll be gettin back to State College early Sunday afternoon probably, since I need to study study study for Monday evening’s exam in 501. I’m just glad my cough/cold that I’ve had this week didn’t get any worse, otherwise I probably wouldn’t be going to B-more this weekend. Well, I’m off!