What do you do when someone you know will do anything they can to get what they want, despite how it makes you feel?

Once again I was interviewed for an article in the Weekly, and once again what I said was completely misinterpreted and taken out of context so as to make me sound like I was saying something completely opposite than I was. So far, I've only gotten one email from anyone affiliated with Res Life, and that was Burum telling me good job for standing ( Read more... )

I'm beginning to suspect that I didn't have quite as good a handle on the second two portions of my thesis argument as I thought I did. I'm noticing a lot more hand-wavey arguments and not nearly as much attention to the details of my argument, which indicate one of two things ( Read more... )

A friend of mine and I just kicked in a few dollars to set up a web page where we'll have some room to make our own. I'm fully aware that I need no further distractions to keep me from graduating in a few months, but this page is a culmination of a plan that's been in action for quite a few years. In fact, this collaborative effort actually stems ( Read more... )

Last night I bought an ipod. It cost me about $250, which is tres cheap; my sister hooked me up with a sweet discount through her work. It should be home for me when I get there for spring break on Friday, but we'll see. Once I get it, I'll cross that invisible line I was always hesitant to cross. It's somewhat equivalent to when I got my first ( Read more... )

This weekend was an exercise in Murphy's Law. Some of the astounding ways in which my weekend went from being a nice reprieve from work to degenerating into a chaotic mess include ( Read more... )

I had an old, old friend message me on facebook over the past weekend. "Dude", it said, "I have today off from school! Snow Dayz Rawk!" or something like that. I'll never understand how people can go months, even years, without talking and then launch into a description of beer pong tournaments held on a snow day without warning or explanation ( Read more... )

People have asked me in the past why I decided to major in mathematics. I offer a variety of smart-ass comments, usually pertaining to the vast, vast number of hawt women I'm able to pick up because of my education. I mean come on, look at all the hotties in the math department...right ( Read more... )

So it turns out that writing a thesis is hard work ( Read more... )

I'm not entirely sure what it is that's prompting me to write anything right now ( Read more... )