I got in to every single class I wanted to except for MACS 232 – Probability and Statistics. No worries though, I’ll go to the class when it starts and talk with the prof. Hopefully I’ll get in.
No word yet on living arrangements for next year, I’m talking with Jared, Goodwin, Matt, Laura, and Tyson about different possibilities. Good news is that Ryan is going to sublet my room over the summer. It actually works out perfectly for everyone ’cause he’s going to take my spot in the house next year and he’s doing summer school. So that’s about $800 I get back.
While the photos finish uploading, let me tell you about EDays.
Thursday’s fireworks were delayed a day because of high winds. That really put a damper on things because the fireworks show pretty much marks the start of EDays. I skipped out on the Ore Cart Pull because it was raining and I didn’t really feel like walking to Denver in the rain. By around 3pm, the skies had cleared and the field events were on. They didn’t have the bungee run, like last year, but they had an inflatable Rat Race, oxygen bar, DDR, and paintball contest (it was put on by the Army and you had to do push ups before you shot).
The theme was Maui Wow-EDays (yea, I don’t make these up) and so there was a FireDancing performance.
Backing up a day…when the fireworks finally got underway, they were spectacular, even better then last year (which I also learned were more conservative because of a rather ridiculous lawsuit: this guy was trying to sue fireworks company because of some hearing issue he suffered. Dude, it’s a fricken’ fireworks show. Things go BOOM, what were you expecting? A exploding pillows?)
Because the fireworks were moved to Friday, the Everclear concert had to be pushed back and the opening bands act had to be cancelled.
Everclear was okay, I was on a mission to take photographs, so I didn’t really listen to the music…but I wasn’t particularly interested in what I heard. They did play Brown Eyed Girl, which I knew, and that was fun…even though it isn’t their song.
Saturday we had a totally AWSOME BBQ party at our house. We grilled up 10 pounds 4.53 kg of hot dogs and cut of salmon from Costco. Orgy in my mouth! Oh man. The salmon was sooo good. I also had an excellent cigar. But salmon: what an orgy in my mouth.
Around 7:30, just about everyone from the party headed over to see the comedian, Daniel Tosh:
I love the comedians our school brings in. Soo funny.
And that was EDays…or at least everything you need to know about EDays 2006.
I was tired of having to log into LON CAPA to do my physics homework. For whatever reason, Firefox (and IE) refuse to save the usename/password, so I have to type it in every time. Ergo, I wrote a Greasemonkey script that enters my username and password and logs me in automatically!
Jens just pointed out that our statics homework, which is posted online, not only has the problems, but also has the answers. WTF? Not that I’m complaining, but I thougt that was rather interesting.
It starting last night. The idea was innocent enough and one I’ve had before: would I be better off back in Seattle at the UW. It’s a thought I’ve have times before and nothing has really come of it and nothing came of it tonight. But for whatever reason, the seed grew. Part of it might have been the email this morning from Ben, perhaps the last straw in growing housing tensions. Part of it might have been my own failure to achieve the grades I want at Mines and the reflection in others about the grades they achieve versus the grades get. Why am I so complacient in my own learning?
I remember Freshman year: Ed Moats. 8:15 am Advanced Algebra. What a class. Ed was a retired lawyer who thought teaching was a good idea. Not so much.
Ed Moats to Austen Holman, “Are you From Austin, Texas?”
Ed Moats to Dori Scherer, “Everything hunky-dory?”
Yup. Quite a class. Oh and Ed confronting that one kid who took/stole the Teachers Manual. that was funny. This kid makes some excuse to go use the bathroom, but he’s really going to go photocopy the answers for his friend. Ed catches him with a book and asks what he’s doing. Needless to say, this kid turned as red as a lobster realizing he’d been caught and that was the end of that.
Brian, my brother, came to some of my classes today: Statics and Physics 1 Studio. I also gave me a short tour of the campus. He seemed to enjoy it. $5 says he goes to college in Colorado.