Here is an article from the New York Times about how various school districts are dropping gifted and talented programs. This is a quote that I particularly disagree with ( Read more... )

Two and a half hours later, and they have finally posted grades. I've got As and Bs as usual, so I DO get to graduate... But the idea that a satanic prof and a 69 could ruin my college career was really frightening.

Final grades were suppose to be up at 10:00 pm. It is now 10:01 and my grades do not display ( Read more... )

Tomorrow is my last final in my last college class, so today I am procrastinating on studying for the last time in my college career. I've eaten my last snack that I really wasn't interested in eating, but it's better than studying. I've cleaned my room in a desperate attempt to not study for the final time. I will never again throw bouncy balls at ( Read more... )

In preparation for my entry into the real world I periodically have to fill out assorted job-related forms. Every time I come across a blank for my social security number I have to pause and restrain myself as I begin to write 713. It take conscious thought on my part to remember that, regardless of what A&M wants, when there is such a blank they ( Read more... )

Dr Hanson: If you were walking down the beach and you came across a pocket watch what could you infer?

A Student: That someone lost their watch.

Thus, a higher being exists but has lost the universe.

The evil, soul stealing economics paper has still not released my from it’s clutches. On Tuesday we received other students’ papers to peer review, and today we got our papers back with a review from Dr. Hanson and the peer review of our papers. The reviews that I received were particularly noteworthy.

From my peer:

I thought this was a well written ( Read more... )

There is an unwritten rule among school aged children that thou shalt not like anything that you are forced to read for school, but for the most part none of the books are that bad. Sure, occasionally you come across an Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison) or Native Son (Richard Wright), but you are more likely to read something that is decent or even ( Read more... )

As it turns out, I got a 95 out of 100 on my logic exam... Much better than the 70-80 that I was expecting.

Today was my second logic exam this semester. The exam was three questions where you wrote a proof for some given argument. The first two proofs were so incredibly easy that I simply breezed through them, I was ready to get out of the class in fifteen minutes... And then i got to the third proof. I sat there for forty minutes frantically scribbling ( Read more... )