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Precision Anyone?

So I took my math test today and after I was done I decided to read the instructions (my usual style). There I saw that my answers were supposed to be decimal to three significant figures instead of the fractions I had used.

What kind of middle school math is that!? Why the hell should I rewrite 1/3 as 0.333 or whatever? So I had to go through the entire test again and add an inaccurate decimal answer after the exact fraction.

It also didn't help that I still don't get significant figures at all. What would 1/3 be as a decimal to three significant figures? I wasn't sure if the leading zero counted. If I counted it, half my answers came out to 0.00 because the fraction was so small, like 1/1024 or something.

Anyway, at least all the tests are taken care of for Semester II, Part I. Now it's less than one week until I'm off to Vienna.

Peace out while I party the night away.

Almost Done

The past two days went by pretty well. I stayed up all night and got all my homework done for Tuesday. I somehow made it through the day with only two one-hour naps.

Today I had a job filming in the law school. It was horrible. The tripod they gave me was broken, so I couldn't get the camera to stay horizontally even.

My human sex test tonight was a lot easier than I thought. Now I'm just waiting for Greg to get back so we can study some math.

After tomorrow there isn't any hard stuff before break, so I'll be glad when tomorrow has passed.

Pure Genius

So I decided to sell my mp3 player this past week. Only problem is that I sort of forgot to save the mp3s on it to my computer before sending it out. Yeah... Pure genius.

Otherwise the only other news right now would be that I'm in academic hell for the first time in a long time. I have to correct a German test of mine (which I have to completely type up again despite my great grade), write an essay for my other German class, then do this five-page economics homework that I've stared at a few times this week but quickly put down because it has scary-looking graphs.

Then I have a human sex test Wednesday night. The damn review sheet is three pages long.

I also have a math test on Thursday, which should once again be the easiest thing ever, except for the fact that my professor decides to take points off for writing "the graph is skewed left" instead of "the graph is skewed to the left.

Garage Block

A little trip across campus yesterday ended up taking an hour last night. Here's why:

I drove my friend to another hall so he could pick something up, and while I was gone an accident occurred in front of my parking garage... so I said to myself, "Hey, I want to deposit a check anyway," so I drove downtown to my bank, but they had no envelopes for the machine! So then I drove to another location about 300 feet away, but they don't have an ATM. So then I drove back and the entrance was still blocked. So I drove to another lot but it was full. Then to another... also full. So I circled a bit and found a tiny lot where I could park. So then I got back to my hall, look out the window and the accident is cleared! So then I got to go back down and move my car back to the garage.

Otherwise I don't really think much is new. I have some five-page economics homework due today. Those problems kind of remind me of the AIS days. Lots of strange charts.

Full Weekend

I filled up my weekend this week. Thursday evening I went home and was there until Saturday afternoon, when I drove back to Syracuse and went to a lacrosse scrimmage, then to the gym, and then to Utica College. I had a fun night partying there and then drove back to Syracuse this past morning.

I also booked my next Vienna trip. It's going to be March 4 to 14.

Filling Up Wednesday & The Weekend

Wednesday is supposed to be an off-day for me, but I filled it up anyway. The only thing I really had to do was go to my human sex class at seven in the evening. But I accepted a job that went from 2:30 to 5:00. Then I went to the gym until 6:20, ate, and went to class. Then at nine I went back to the gym until about ten or so.

I have a feeling I am not going to be able to move tomorrow let alone write essays, which I’m going to have to do for my German test at ten. Then after another German class, an economics class, and a math class, I’m going to go to the gym and then go home (as in real home) until Saturday morning. Then I’m going to come back to campus, work out, eat, and then head to Utica to party with my UC friends. What an action packed weekend for once. Now I’m going to study a bit for my German test because I want to actually know answers unlike my last test on Tuesday.

Cracking The Two-Mark

Weeew! Yesterday I weighed in at over two hundred pounds for the first time in my life. I’ve been going to the gym on a daily basis now. Like me suitemate Gerry says, it becomes a daily necessity. When I first started going again I didn’t feel a direct need to go every day. But after about five sessions it has become addictive. The only problem is that over the summer, when I’m probably going to be in Vienna for a few weeks, I won’t have access to a weight room unless I pay a huge membership fee at some local gym. I’ll probably have to survive with push- and situps, and running to nearby Mauer on a daily basis.

The Mall on Weekdays

I love going to the mall on weekdays. Every store looks like it's about to go out of business. Every store you go into is overstaffed and thus seven employees stand there and stare at you. Even better is when, to reduce the number of employees working, they close the men's dressing room and put up a sign to use the women's one at the other end of the store. That's what happened to me at H&M today. I finally found it behind several rows of lingerie. Of course I was the only guy there and was stared at by tons of horribly attractive women. The problem with that was that I looked like shit because of the situation that I'm going to explain next...

Somehow over the weekend all my bathroom stuff like razors, toothpaste, etc. disappeared. As a result I hadn't shaved in like three days, hadn't brushed my teeth in two (I survived with Listerine), and basically looked horrible. I had stored my contacts in two beer pong cups... Yep, great weekend. Another great thing about H&M is that it's about the only store in the entire U.S. where you will hear and see loud Euro Club music all over the store. But they had $5 shirts so it was worth it.

By the way, if you haven't noticed I use the word "great" sarcastically 95 percent of the time.

Otherwise life in Syracuse is normal. January was the snowiest month ever in recorded Syracuse history. It basically snowed every day of the month.

Here’s a picture of a CNN reporter getting stuck in the snow downtown:

And the world’s largest snowplow at our airport:

My classes are basically all on Tuesdays and Thursdays this semester, which makes those two days hell, but makes the other days great. It looks like I’m going to be an international relations and German major. I take two German classes with an Austrian professor who is pretty cool. There’s a guy in them too that went to FIS and has been to our quarry and has been housed by Tom Fitzpatrick and Thorsten’s brother. That’s insane, considering the first class only has three students.

I’m also taking my first post-McCarthy economics class, which seems easy after that IB junk. I’m taking an easy statistics class and a human sexuality class, which is the highest rated class on campus according to ratemyclass.com. It’s a three-hour class that’s only two hours and is like watching standup comedy. We’ve also been watching all these  “anti-masturbation videos” from the sixties as a joke, because they tried teaching kids that they will go blind if they masturbate and that “once the human mind becomes perverted, it will remain so indefinitely.”