There's a drinking challenge where you try to drink 24 beers in 24 hours.  Apparently, it's harder than it looks.  I dont believe that for a second, however.  I want to do it one of these days.

 

I've hardly had anything to drink since I got here, which makes my minor-in-possession charge even more bullshit.  My friends have been advising me to get legal counseling and to battle it out in court.  I initially wanted to, but it just seems like a waste of everyone's time.  They've got my empty keg as evidence that technically still has alcoholic liquid in it, even if it's the slightest amount ever and is impossible for me to get out even if I wanted to.  I've got to pay $250 for court costs and another $100 for alcohol class.  I want to fight this but I just dont have the time, I doubt I have sufficient evidence, and in the long run it wouldnt have been worth it considering all the trouble I went through.  I wish I didnt get that stupid-ass ticket in the first place, fucking pig cops.  I hope that Officer/Detective Ryan Cavanaugh dies of ass-cancer.

 

Anyways, time for some photos:

 

 

I dont know who's birthday it was, but I thought it was pretty cool to chalk out this happy birthday wish for a friend on their way to classes.  The cow was a very nice touch as well, cute.

 

 

The Adult Swim people set up somewhat of a mini-carnival in the Diag today.  Inside this gigantic inflatable of meatwad they had a Family Guy pinball machine.  They were giving out free t-shirts and stuff too.  Guess what else they had?

 

 

DETHKLOK!!

 

I'm headed out to get some steak quesedillas from BtB.

So there's this game I've been playing, it's called Quake Live.  It's a free online version of 1999's Quake III Arena, you play it in your webbrowser, and any computer made in the past decade will be able to run it.  But you (the public) cant play it yet, because it's still in the beta testing phase.  For those of you who arent "in the know", Quake 3 Arena is a game played in professional electronic sport tournaments extensively since it's release.  With Quake Live, they've updated the game to cater to the modern gamer and are giving it out for free.  And it will be the standard for online shooters for years to come, there will be tournaments coming out the ass, this IS the next big thing.

 

In physics lab the other day, the chick who had been ignoring me grouped with me.  Things were going great, we were plugging along, and then about an hour into the lab she accidentally shuts off the surge protector to the computer, erasing all of our work.  aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUGH.  You cant tell the difference between a surge protector and a vacuum?  The lack of knowledge about electronics baffles me, if you dont know what a surge protector is then I'll fill you in.

 

 

THAT.  THAT IS A SURGE PROTECTOR.  DO NOT TURN OFF.  See that red switch?  NO TOUCHY.  The thingy that plugs into the wall and provides more electrical outlets.  How do people survive without knowing this?  I had gone to ask the teacher a question and when I came back to see all our data lost, I was speechless.

 

I've been lazy lately, been sleeping through alot of my classes.  I get the work done, but I'm just not going to physics anymore.  I'm withdrawing because it's just not worth taking the chance that I might or might not pass.  If I do pass, it'd be with a C or a C-.  If I failed, which is the more likely option, then all the extra hours that I spent neglecting other classes would have helped me achieve nothing.  With physics out of the way, I can get more sleep and spend more time focusing on Biology and Spanish, both of which I can do very well in if I have the time to study for them.  I'm sick of waking up at 7am every day and the first thing that I do is Physics.  That was the first class of every day of the week, and every day I left clueless.  In this week alone, the people in physics have to turn in 3 online homework assignments with 10 problems each.  10 HARD problems.  You think that's enough?

 

I'm thinking of signing up for a mini-course to make up for the credits that I'm losing from dropping physics.  I did a mini-course about Dinosaurs the second half of my first semester of freshman year, did pretty damn good on it, got one of the highest grades in the class.  Not a small class either, big full lecture-hall type class.  Anyone take any good easy mini-courses that they can recommend?

 

Got a Spanish exam tomorrow, that's what I be studying for right now.

Average Bio exam score:  74

My Bio exam score: 74.5

 

I AM THE SMARTEST MAN ALIVE!!!

Horray, I'm done with my physics exam!

 

God, I hate physics.  Everyone else around me seems to understand it without a hitch and that really bothers me. I dont stand a chance, when I was doing the practice exams to study for the test I got around 4 questions right each time on all 4 of the practice exams I had. That means I should've just circled "C" for every answer, I'd literally make a higher grade that way than if I had actually tried. I do go to every lecture and discussion, spend most of my days in the physics help room waiting in line for an hour to get one question answered before waiting in line for another hour to get another question answered. I go to the lecture immediately before the one that I'm assigned to so that I can write down the in-class quiz answers and get a second dose of knowledge. Our lab quizzes are in class and closed book, and they're always the most random, impossible to study for questions. It sucks, and on top of that my GSI grades really harshly.

 

I'm going to withdraw after I get my exam results, I did some grade calculating and even if I did best-case-scenario on all the discussions and lectures and homeworks, if I dont do much much better on the actual exam than I do on the practice exams then I'll still have a D, and that's useless to me. I put such an incredible amount of hours into studying for this one class, but I see nothing in results, it's just not worth the time. I'll probably take it at home over the summer at a piss-easy community college, I did that this summer with Calculus and got an easy A and transfered it over here so I dont have that requirement anymore. I hate having to have a W on the transcript since I'm withdrawing from the class, but I'm sick of waking up extra-early every morning, studying or working on homework every spare minute I have, being forced to neglect all of my other classes, being exhausted everyday since I dont get nearly enough sleep and I'm always annoying my friends with endless physics questions. They made Physics 125 waaaaaaaaaay too damn hard. Now I'm ranting, so I'll shut up now.