Roughly a month ago, during a fun filled evening of playing nails, a friend related to me and others his dissatisfaction with the Russian language course he took on campus. The complaint had to do with the emphasis on grammar. I think it’s a problem that plagues most language courses in general, probably even independent…
The first day of school went fine, in the sense that I expect all the course work to be fun, but I was definitely pissed off when I learned that the professor who was to teach circuit theory is away for a whole year. A last minute change of plans apparently, since they had him…
If you’re in a position where your supervisors and co-workers aren’t familiar with the types of tasks you’re responsible for, maybe you should occasionally intentionally cause a noticeable problem that only you are able to fix; for job security. “We need you.”
If you had the option of compressing a future day into one hour would you do it? For example, consider it is Monday and you are looking forward to the weekend. If it were possible, would you opt to allow the rest of the week to go by in four hours? I don’t mean that…
At what fraction of your walking speed must the person in front of you be walking in order for you to initiate an overtaking maneuver? 80%? 70%? It certainly depends on how close they are to you and how far you are from your destination. The worst is when they are walking near the threshold…
I’m convinced that to some degree there’s a law of balance in life, such that you don’t make progress in one area without adversely affecting something else. For example, do you want a million USD? You won’t get it unless you identify ways in which possessing $1,000,000 would adversely affect you. Moreover, you have to…
I imagine there are some people who arrive/leave work at seemingly random times on successive days as a means of avoiding physical harm by others during the daily commute to and from home. This behavior is probably most common in metropolitan areas with heavily used public transportation systems. A subway passenger who gets on the…
The Psychology Dept. on campus offers year round once a week counseling at a cost of $5 for a 50 minute session. Last week I had a free screening and in one hour I’m going in for my first session. It’s what they call a training clinic, where the clinicians are grad students who consult…
Fuck summer school. I want to enjoy a well-deserved vacation.
The sprinklers are out in full force today on upper campus. I had to dodge and strategically time my passing of a good many on my way to work.