School of Thoughts

Perhaps I was a bit premature in suggesting Stats 100 was going to be an enjoyable experience. Like Pavlov's dogs, a mere entry into Wellman 006 is enough to make even an entire pot of coffee feckless in the war against drowsiness. It's like having a Persian Mr. Rogers tell you about joys of calculating the probility - strike that, "probity" - of you falling asleep and getting called on in class assuming a poisson distribution of monotoneness. On the other hand, I do have two $500 malaise traps on order through the Kimsey lab thanks to this class, so I should try to stay excited about it.

Film Studies is pretty much progressing as predicted, and it will be interesting to see how well I do on my first critical film review, due in a few weeks. I think I'm gonna choose Blade Runner as my film, but we'll see. I'm also enjoying learning about the historical aspect behind the movies from class (i.e. Cuban Cultural Revolution, Marxism, etc), but I STILL have yet to determine the TA's gender...

My graduate level class isn't as demanding as I thought it would be yet, but I'm still behind as I have not had time to do either of the last two powerpoint presentations. That means I definitely have to present next Thursday. I've got two really nice lab partners, both of which were chem majors as undergraduates. Surprisingly, neither of the girls had used a gas chromatograph before yesterday, so the playing ground is a lot more level than previously assumed. The best part of this class is that I *finally* have a really hands on course for the instruments my major uses.

While I'm on that topic, can you believe the Forensic Master's program has very few practical labs? I will never understand how you can expect educate someone to perform a completely lab based job by feeding them theoretical concepts all day without backing them up by actually doing them...

Matt, we really need to open our own school.