#17 Freewrite April 29th
This past weekend I had planned for the longest time to go home and see one of my good buddies who just got back from Iraq. The trip got canceled due to a major pile-up of exams. So instead I stayed in Statesboro and got my work done.
On Friday night I spent a majority of my time at the library slaving over the take-home exam my fluid mechanics professor gave us. After solving two of the three problems and spending about two hours I called it a night. We had the answers for the problem and after working both problems my answers ranged from 30 off to 5 off... I was okay with 5, but the 30 not so much. I later checked out how some classmates got the correct answer... and the only difference was due to how far we rounded are answers (that goes to show how many different calculations these problems involve). Ack. So then after the library I headed out to the gym to shoot some hoops... for about half an hour because they closed earlier than I thought. A cool thing I ran into on my way out of the gym was a pool party with free food and virgin cock-tails (at least its all free). I made the most fun out of it as I could. Tried to mingle with some folks as I went alone and didn't run into anyone I knew for a bit. I knew one of the girls that was working at the gym and providing the cock-tails, or as they called them, mock tails. But she was pretty busy. Another girl I ran into that I knew went to high school with me. To tell the truth I didn't even know her name and I'm not sure how I knew her. She just looked familiar, I guess. We talked about how college life is treating us, our majors, interests in our majors, etc. She's a art major and somehow she knew my name, which always makes one feel like they should know the others name undoubtedly... but I didn't. Maybe we had a class back in high school? Anyway, I played some volleyball with her and some other people and that was pretty much the end of the night.
Saturday rolled around and I don't think I got up until noon because I stayed up late... for no reason, really. I was determined to work on my calculus homework and take home exam done on Saturday and I got a good amount done. I was really disappointed that I wasn't spending the by the pool but that's the way things happen sometimes. After hours of homework I just wanted to unwind. So I went to the gym, came back and watched the movie "The Untouchables" at my apartment. The movie takes place in Chicago in the year 1930 when the country is in Prohibition. It was a really good movie staring De Niro, Costner, and Connory (sp?). One review compares the movie to The Godfather, however I don't think you can quite compare the two. I don't know what brought me outside, but after the movie was finished I went out to my front porch and ran into my neighbor, Mario, who had just come back from a concert that his band played in. He invited me out to a party and I decided I would go. So we got to the party and there really wasn't too many people, despite my expectation. I didn't care though, I hadn't had a drink in over a week and I was familiar with a good amount of people at the party and things were good. I stayed until the keg had finished to assure my five dollar purchase of beer, then made a good walk home.
Sunday didn't start until 3 p.m. I didn't feel like getting out of bed, studying, or anything. Around 5 p.m. I finally got around to starting the day. I did so with more calculus as my exam was to be first thing Monday morning. Studying, studying, studying....
With calculus and fluid mechanics out of the way, I move onto English... It never seems to stop... so I keep moving...just one foot in front of the other.
On Friday night I spent a majority of my time at the library slaving over the take-home exam my fluid mechanics professor gave us. After solving two of the three problems and spending about two hours I called it a night. We had the answers for the problem and after working both problems my answers ranged from 30 off to 5 off... I was okay with 5, but the 30 not so much. I later checked out how some classmates got the correct answer... and the only difference was due to how far we rounded are answers (that goes to show how many different calculations these problems involve). Ack. So then after the library I headed out to the gym to shoot some hoops... for about half an hour because they closed earlier than I thought. A cool thing I ran into on my way out of the gym was a pool party with free food and virgin cock-tails (at least its all free). I made the most fun out of it as I could. Tried to mingle with some folks as I went alone and didn't run into anyone I knew for a bit. I knew one of the girls that was working at the gym and providing the cock-tails, or as they called them, mock tails. But she was pretty busy. Another girl I ran into that I knew went to high school with me. To tell the truth I didn't even know her name and I'm not sure how I knew her. She just looked familiar, I guess. We talked about how college life is treating us, our majors, interests in our majors, etc. She's a art major and somehow she knew my name, which always makes one feel like they should know the others name undoubtedly... but I didn't. Maybe we had a class back in high school? Anyway, I played some volleyball with her and some other people and that was pretty much the end of the night.
Saturday rolled around and I don't think I got up until noon because I stayed up late... for no reason, really. I was determined to work on my calculus homework and take home exam done on Saturday and I got a good amount done. I was really disappointed that I wasn't spending the by the pool but that's the way things happen sometimes. After hours of homework I just wanted to unwind. So I went to the gym, came back and watched the movie "The Untouchables" at my apartment. The movie takes place in Chicago in the year 1930 when the country is in Prohibition. It was a really good movie staring De Niro, Costner, and Connory (sp?). One review compares the movie to The Godfather, however I don't think you can quite compare the two. I don't know what brought me outside, but after the movie was finished I went out to my front porch and ran into my neighbor, Mario, who had just come back from a concert that his band played in. He invited me out to a party and I decided I would go. So we got to the party and there really wasn't too many people, despite my expectation. I didn't care though, I hadn't had a drink in over a week and I was familiar with a good amount of people at the party and things were good. I stayed until the keg had finished to assure my five dollar purchase of beer, then made a good walk home.
Sunday didn't start until 3 p.m. I didn't feel like getting out of bed, studying, or anything. Around 5 p.m. I finally got around to starting the day. I did so with more calculus as my exam was to be first thing Monday morning. Studying, studying, studying....
With calculus and fluid mechanics out of the way, I move onto English... It never seems to stop... so I keep moving...just one foot in front of the other.