I'm feeling really exasperated and burned out right now. After today I will have had to write 36 pages worth of papers in the past two weeks. 10 of these pages will have been in French. I really don't seriously care about any of the topics I'm writing about. I have actual relevant (astro/physics) work to do too, but I have to put it on hold to ( Read more... )

My car is broken again. It doesn't shift correctly. It revs up ridiculously high and then shifts, which is kind of a problem. I discovered in the ensuing search for a repair shop that no service shop in Middletown proper will work on Volkswagens. Not one (that I could find). I obviously can't drive my car home, on highways, if it won't shift out of ( Read more... )

I have so much work. I have to write 30 pages in the next week, and 33.333...% of them must be in French. I also haven't read the book I'm supposed to write about yet. Whee! You know, I really don't get why so many people at this school claim math and science are so hard. I find the social sciences and humanities so much harder and more time- ( Read more... )

Buttstock was actually excellent. It was moved into the Butt A lounge because of the rain, but Molly had the vision to ask Matt's Music if we could get a smaller sound system so as to avoid making everyone's ears bleed in that echo-ey room. So it was actually fairly pleasant (although still not comparable to playing outside in beautiful weather). ( Read more... )

Dear friends,

As many of you probably know, I will be living in Butterfield B230 for my RA assignment next year. This message is for anyone, but mostly for current freshman. If I like you, if I know you, hell, if I've ever even talked to you before I probably want to live in my hall. Or in Butt B in general. All my friends in in the rising junior ( Read more... )

Well, I know you were all dying to know, so here you go:

ASTR 221 - Galactic Astronomy (Johnston) - MW 2:40p-4:00p
PHYS 213 - Waves and Oscillations (Starr) - TR 2:40p-4:00p
MATH 221 - Vectors and Matrices (Bonfert-Taylor) - MWF 9:00a-9:50a
PHYS 215 (0.5/qtr) - Special Relativity (Stewart) MWF 11:00a-11:50a
PHYS 217 (0.5/qtr) - Chaos (Stewart) MWF

Kitt Peak = super amazing

Physics exam tomorrow = totally screwed

Me = tired, feeling kind of detached from reality right now, completely uncalibrated to Eastern time having spent two weeks six hours ahead and now several days three hours back within the span of a month.

I had lunch with the interim director of ResLife. It was strange although not as awkward I was expecting, plus I got free Thai Gardens. Basically it was because I email her every other week with some grievance that I have with the ResLife institution (I have many indeed), so she was eventually like "okay, Matt, are you doing anything for lunch next ( Read more... )

Sin City was so good! No really, go see it (if you don't mind heinous violence). It's definitely going in my DVD collection when it's out. I would write a more detailed explanation of why it's so good, but I don't really know. It was just badass in several ways.

Baseball season starts tonight!

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