Well, I’ve gone and done it… registering for Fall ’04 that is.
Here’s the official breakdown:
All in all, it’ll be 13 academic credits & 3 “fun” credits, making this my easiest semester at the U yet.
In case you were wondering how it looks time-wise, he’s a screenshot from iCal:
I came across this picture while reading some of the blogs I’m subscribed to. It’s pretty touching if you ask me, a nice tribute to a president who has managed to do so much wrong in so little time.
“Below is a … mosaic composed of the photos of the American service men and women who have died in Iraq. No photograph is used more than three times.”
??Via: American Leftist??
My main project right now is the website.
There was an interesting article in today’s New York Times entitled New Lesson for College Students: Lighten Up. I’d recommend reading it, especially if you are one of the overworked college students it talked about (like myself sometimes).
It comes at an interesting time as I get to register for Fall classes on Thursday. I’m having a tough time deciding exactly how much I want to/can handle.
For sure, I’m taking:
This puts me at 14 credits, including Marching Band which we know is infinitely more work. Now I can’t decide on my last course. I’m considering
Each of those classes would put me on my way towards graduating or would satisfy a premed requirement.
Alternative, I could take a “fun” class:
A few weeks ago all resident hall tenants were allowed to participate in a survey regarding features to be added/removed to the standard room rate. The ones on the survey this year were Newspapers, Cable TV, and Voicemail. Personally, I voted for the addition of free Newspapers and the retention of our voicemail program despite it’s cost. I voted against Cable TV since there’s cable in the lounge already and I don’t have the desire to watch.
The results came back in today’s Minnesota Daily:
Are you willing to have no more than $10 per semester added to your room/apartment rate to have three newspapers (USA Today, Star Tribune, St. Paul Pioneer Press) available to you Monday-Friday in your residence hall/apartment?
Results show number of votes/percentage of votes
Yes: 1090/53.99%
No: 925/45.81%
N/A: 4/0.2%Are you willing to pay approximately $80 per semester for cable TV in your residence hall room/apartment?
Yes: 1177/58.3%
No: 841/41.65%
N/A: 1/0.05%
While nothing really surprises me, it saddens me that more people would rather spend $80 a semester for cable tv than $10 a semester for THREE free newspapers (in addition to the Minnesota Daily) every day.
Umm, hello. Free papers are way cool.
It’s good to know that U of M students aren’t the only people to riot. Like take for example UConn students after their national championship victory of GA Tech.
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Next time they should be more careful to not pose for the camera, as in the case with students from Northeastern University.
Via Fark
I think you can tell a lot about a person based upon how they keep up their life. So in case you were wondering about me, here’s a picture of my current desk:
Note that it’s not the cleanest, but at least there aren’t piles everywhere. Notable items include:
What a season it has been. UConn played an excellent game and definitely deserved to win. It’s sad for me to see the season come to an end. Sorry to the band members stuck in New Orleans… Gary, I guess you have something to be happy about.
I liked the photo that Gophersports.com put up:
In case you were wondering, the picture that would have been on the website if they won was
Bye Lindsay Whalen. You’ll certainly be missed. Hopefully the team can pickup where they left off this year with another fantastic season next year.
Well, it’s Joe’s birthday (on the 7th I think), so a bunch of us on the 6th floor decided to pitch in and buy him a t-shirt so he can never forget how much he likes Chappelle’s Show.
I ran into a link to The Rasterbator a month or two ago and was curious as to how it’d turn out. Essentially it takes an image file you submit and creates a rasterized version of it, essentially a picture with only a white background and black circles of various diameter on a set grid. The “darker” the the part of the image, the larger diameter the black circle is.
I, of course, choose to do a portrait of myself [link dead], namely one that I took while in El Paso for the Sun Bowl.
The software on the site allowed me to crop the part of the image I wanted and then let me choose how many sheet of paper to print it on. I choose 2×2 since my printer was running out of toner.
It then processes your image and returns a pdf file of the output. In case you are curious, here’s the pdf output [link dead].
So I printed it and hung it on the wall. The final result:
I decided it looked pretty good, so I made one of Dave too:
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