Well, it has become obvious that I picked the wrong pepband to be in, as the Women’s BBall team just beat the 2 seed Kansas State to advance to the Sweet Sixteen. As I recall, all of the women’s events (that have pepbands—volleyball, hockey, basketball) have now seen post-season play. Contrast this to the men’s basketball team, with our 10th in the Big Ten ranking.
Maybe it’s a good thing I did BB Band because I’d be too busy with trips with all of the WAB events.
Question: How many cigarettes have you smoked?
None. And I never will. Smoking is gross and I wish people would stop. It only kills you.
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They finally fixed the drinking fountain on our floor. About time, it had been out of service now for 2-3 weeks after it had somehow managed to get stuck in the “on” position. And, we get a bright shiny new drinking fountain, straight out of the cardboard box. New! I can’t believe it. I thought the people running the reshalls were a bunch of cheapos.
Question: What is your favorite kind of syrup?
My Answer: I like maple syrup the most. I’m not a fan of the berry-ish syrups at all.
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Mitcho (aka Michael Erlewine) is in town and it sounds like we’ll be meeting for lunch tomorrow. It should be fun. More hot chinese food to burn my tongue with. And a good amount of math discussion.
All good things must come to an end. And thus concludes spring break. On the whole it went fast…. way too fast. I ended up working a good 40-ish hours at Walgreens—enough to make some spending money.
I’ve got the joy of three midterms this week. The first is in Physics Lab—it should be mostly on probability and statistics. Topics include mean, standard deviation, deviance, uncertainty calculations, Gaussian and Poisson distributions, and other counting statistics.
Wednesday brings a midterm in my Algebra class. It shouldn’t be too hard, although I’m sure to have forgotten all of the subject matter of break. Something with Rings and Ideals and other complex/useless stuff. Or if it has a use, it has eluded me thus-far.
Friday brings a midterm in Quantum Mechanics. And by midterm, I mean midterm since this is the only class that has only one midterm. I’ll have to go relearn particle/wave duality, and the Schrödinger equation. After that we covered Fourier transforms and wavepackets. A few hours of studying should bring most of it back to current memory.
I’m always unsettled when I’m home alone… maybe it’s because we have a fairly big house and no security system. Or that I think I hear or see things. Like for example I just walked in the door and as I set down my keys I swear I saw a movement in the basement. But then again it wasn’t well lit and could have been anything, especially since it was out of the corner of my eye.
I mean, I’m sure it’ll all be ok… but I really hate being alone in this house.
The Gopher’s just beat the Bulldogs to head to the WCHA Championship Game against UND. Impressive since UMD swept the Gophers in both series this year.
And it’ll give me something to do tomorrow night—the game’s on at 7pm.
Update: The Gophers Beat UND! Wahoo! I’m really sad that I didn’t get to watch the game—I was at work because somebody called in sick. However, I did tape it, so I’ll hopefully get to watch it in the near future. I hear it was a really great game of hockey.
As many of you know, the U of M’s spring break is this week. I thought I’d be able to take some time off and relax, but so far it has been pretty hectic with work. I was originally only scheduled for both Sunday’s of Spring Break, but I’ve ended up working on Tuesday-Friday. At least I’ve been working at some different stores so it’s not so boring.
The Gopher Basketball Banquet was on Monday of this week. We got to the hotel (it was at the Hilton in downtown) and played for a while (30-60 minutes?). Then sat down and ate dinner. The meal was really good (I haven’t had steak in ages!) and the company was even better—being able to talk to band people that I hadn’t seen in a little while.
Then we had to wait through all of the talks and speeches. Monson got up and talked a bit about each player and then let the Seniors say whatever they wanted. On the whole it took a quite a while and was mostly boring since I don’t know any of the players on a personal level. There were certain interesting parts because I guess the Basketball Player’s have a sense of humor as well. There were the jokes about people’s sexuality (although in a nice fashion, especially since one of the one of the gay-joke targets is now engaged). There was talk of “putting three people in a box and seeing who would come out”… a sort of who’s the best competition mind game. I think it would have been a lot funnier if I knew about the inside jokes ahead of time.
Michael Bauer spoke last (since he was the “best” senior). He got very emotional, especially when talking about how he almost lost his father and his brother during his college career. It was very touching (and honestly it was close to bringing tears to my eyes). Monson must have been apprehensive about letting him talk after the “incident” in Indianapolis at the Pep Fest in which Micheal quoted his brother as saying, “Beat the F— out of Wisconsin.”
The evening concluded with a rendition of the rouser, likely the last time I will play it this school year! Only 5 more months until Spat Camp!
Well I can’t really deal with Xanga anymore. It just doesn’t have the flexibility that I was looking for. So with that said, I’m proud to introduce my new blog:
Brad Froehle 