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I’m Not Ready for This

SAAS graduation is tonight. One year ago I was in the same spot as this years graduation class. The year has gone by really fast and I don’t think I’m ready to see the class of ’05 graduate. As every second ticks on, I loose a little bit of what I enjoyed so much their. I have a handful of friends that are graduating at SAAS, so I’ll go see them tonight. I will also talk with the teachers. But man oh man…has it really been that long? I guess so. Only three more years (?) of college.

Why Chemistry Sucks

I’ve recently determined that chemistry sucks, and can join other sucky things on my list of things that suck (similiar to Bush’s Axis of Evil). Chemistry sucks because despite the fact that it tries to be an exact science and it’s taught as an exact science, it is not, in fact, an exact science. For example, we’re currently working on solving equations that determine pH’s, solubility, equilibria. Yet, certain parts of very critical equations can actually be left out if values are small enough! It doesn’t make any sense. The only reason I’m not dropping it is because A) it’s a required class, and B) it’s the last required chemistry class and I want to get it done and over with NOW! I’ve also managed to find a cool little resource that will hopefully help: http://www.sparknotes.com/chemistry/. They worked in High School for English, hopefully they’ll work now.

Retzisms

Rob's life-long dream comes true...getting a bucket of water dumped on his head. Steve visits Egypt Steve saluting the crowd

What is a Retzism, you ask? Well, sometime during high school at SAAS, Trevor Essmeier got this great idea to make these really awesome cut and paste montages of our history teacher, Steve Retz. Well, during our senior year, I got in on the game, creating more realistics compilations of Retz. I haven’t done any for almost a year, but I got board and decided to make some more up. I’ll periodically release more, so be sure to check out the Retzisms gallery every once-in-a-while.

Done by 9

I only had one class today, Chemistry Recitiation at 8am, done by 8:50. Mom and Wendy picked me up and we headed up to Broomfield. I attempted to run some errands in Boulder. It took me an hour just to find REI, but I found it. Then I went to FedEx Kinkos which I found by accident. However, they couldn’t handle the RMA return for my Kingston 64MB SD Card, so I had to go to one over on 55th and Central. I tried to find US36, but to no avail. So I just drove South and West until I hit something I knew, which just happened to be Broomfield. So I really hate driving in Boulder now.

On a somewhat related note, I tried looking up Austen Holman on the CU site, but she’s not there anymore. She was listed earlier, so if anyone knows what the 411 is, that would be much appriciated.

Bitting Me in the Ass, Bigtime

Romanticism and Transcendentalism are coming back to bit me in the ass, sort of. It more of the fact that I thought I’d never ever have to use such information again that is bitting me in the ass. As part of NHV, we are reading some Emerson and Thoreau. Ugh, why can’t I ever win?

WU Vision

I just finished helping Trevdog (AKA Trevor Essimier) launch his new website, Willamette University Vision (AKA WUVision.com), today. For those of us that went to SAAS with Trevor, this should be a way to get our fix of "Essimiers," but without all those emails. So anyways, dig in.

Google and Trevor

When I get bored (or can’t sleep), I often end up googling either myself or some of my high school classmates. Then I send whatever I find to Trevor on AIM. It’s actually quite fun. Anyways, I actually searched for everybody. Here are some of the more interesting things I found:

See if you can figure out who’s listed in each of these links. Some are really easy, others are a bit harder.

Week 5

So it’s the begining of week five and I still miss SAAS; well, most of SAAS. There are certainly some things that I’m glad I don’t have to do anymore. But for the most part, whatever sucked was easily outweighed by whatever didn’t suck. I haven’t seen anyone from SAAS in over a month now, two months if you don’t count JWay. I guess it’s just something to look forward to in 5 years or so. Hopefully a lot of people will come back to Seattle and we can get together then.

Anyways, we had a presentation at 9:30 this morning for EPICS. I had to dress up for that and then rush down only to find that we were 30 minutes behind schedule. I had a test in SYGN, I did pretty good on that one.

3 Week Review

I’m starting my 4th week at Mines today and thus far, I it’s been everything I thought it would be. The biggest difference between college and highschool are the class times. I don’t have a single day that is the same. I have an average of 4.8 hours of class a day, which is well over an hour less then highschool. I also have to say that for the most part, my classes in college are significantly more engaging then highschool. Granted, part of that is the fact that I am taking all science classes…which I have generally found more interesting then other classes.

However, I have also noticied an interesting phenomenon. I recognize and keep track of people based on how they resemble my friends from highschool. For instance, my Chem lab partner, Tony, is similar to Ross from SAAS. It’s not true for all people, but it’s interesting none-the-less.

A Blast From The Not So Past

I just saw Jessen, Sydney, Freddy, and Nathan (all graduated seniors from SAAS) at Blockbuster. I also saw Maya at Beadworld. It was a very exciting seeing my classmates again, even though it hasn’t even been that long. I suppose it’s day’s like this when you wish you were back in high school again.