A few people (my brother Russ and my Dad) sent me emails asking about things, so I sent some replies. I'm going to post a modified version here for anyone else who may care, and for my own reference. My first inclination was to update more regularly since I'm so far away from everyone. The funny thing is that being in Austin and so rarely ( Read more... )

Headed to California today.

"This is, of course, the gospel of the mediocre man: to ridicule somebody who tries something difficult on the grounds that the effort was not a total success."

For some reason that resonated with me quite a bit. It's funny, too, because it was David Brooks who said it, and I almost always disagree strongly with his POV on any given issue.

This semester has definitely been my hardest. Between two labs and a substantial writing component, I've been working constantly. I don't have an exact page count, but I'm sure I've turned in over 100 pages of stuff, maybe over 200. Today, however, it all paid off: straigt A's! (That includes the class where I slept through one of the exams and ( Read more... )

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There were a few quotes from today's Daily Texan that I thought I'd share ( Read more... )

I got tagged ( Read more... )

Okay, so after a few hours I was able to catch my Flight Dynamics professor. To my amazement, he was pretty cool about my missing the exam. (This was surprising given my previous experiences with him and stories I've heard.) Anyhow, I got to take the exam on the spot. This was obviously preferable to getting a straight zero, but as I said in my ( Read more... )

I stayed up late last night watching a movie. I was tired when the alarm went off this morning, so I decided to skip my two morning classes. When I showed up for my SGT office duty, a classmate asked me how the test went for me this morning. Apparently there was an exam in a class I slept through! I hope the professor lets me make up the exam ( Read more... )

Okay, so I just joined facebook.com a few days ago. Today I was randomly looking at people, and it occurred to me to look up the people involved in the recent murders at UT. It turns out that Colton Pitonyak, the guy accused of dismembering a woman, and 'Trey' Ehrhardt, the guy recently killed for unknown reasons, had each other friended. Isn't ( Read more... )