Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Conundrum

The other day I saw a flyer in the student center that caught my eye. I think it was simply my ADD kicking in as I walked by, but i semi-paused to read the paper. The flyer said something along the lines of:

Interested In Starting a Rock Band?
I'm looking for people to start a band with, if you play any instrument and are interested, text (whatever number) and let me know what you play and when you can practice.


That was basically it. I shrugged it off, thinking it was funny that someone had to resort to strangers to achieve his dreams. Perhaps he should just get more talented friends. Anyways, that was about it...until i saw another copy of the flyer in a hallway on my way to class. Underneath the typed text, somebody had written the following:
Who are you? I would call but I don't know if we already dislike each other.

I thought that was pretty win...

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

LOL Notes Part 2

Since I had my note-passing notes taken away from me by the oh-so-pleasant Dr. Not-To-Be-Named (I feel like Harry Potter...or wait...Ron Weasley...more on how i AM ron weasley later) I had nothing to do but attempt to pretend to take notes that were about the lecture. These are the things that I 'learned'...and were actually told to me by the professor:

1. Sonar was invented in World War One AND Two...(the fact that we have to be told what sonar was is only slightly less ridiculous than the fact that the prof apparently thinks that there is not a twenty year difference between the two world wars)

2. Echolocation is used by bats because...(wait for it)...they are BLIND! Maybe this is where the phrase 'blind as a bat' comes from...

3. Diffraction-something that diffracts

4. Lightning is apparently responsible for its own noise...not thunder

5. All people in the 1940s were stupid according to the teacher. I guess we are smart tho, and that is why we are learning all this stuff.

6. Some tubes are open and some tubes are closed.

7. The Doppler Effect-all I got out of this was that it looks a LOT like when Magneto uses his powers...I'm pretty sure the example picture showed a train getting wrecked by what looked like Magneto's powers...

8. One shift, two shift, red shift, blue shift....not really sure what that means, but i wrote it down for some reason.




Monday, September 15, 2008

LOL Notes

I never thought I would honestly be able to say that i was thankful for a video that was popular amongst THAT crowd...the crowd of people who find videos and such as that are NOT funny (or find videos that WERE funny...until this group found them, usually LONG after I have). Sadly the day for this absurdity is today.

Let me explain...
NATURAL WORLD: (noun) a ridiculously stupid class for one of the HONORS programs at Baylor University. This class operates under the assumption that if you are in this honors program but are not a science major, you must be (logically and obviously) RETARDED. So, despite the fact that I (and many others in this class) have taken advanced classes in science (in my case AP Chemistry and Physics), i am forced to take this class. Not only is this class not educational, as all we are 'taught' is science an elementary school student would know, it is the OPPOSITE of educational. The key to NOT losing brain cells is NOT paying attention.

Usually my method of not paying attention is either texting friends that are NOT in the class, or passing notes (if they are going to treat me like a fourth grader, this is how i will act) to my friends that ARE in the class. The norm here is to fill up sheets of notebook paper w/ discussions about how stupid the class is, again making fun of all the stupid things that are said by the teachers and students occupying this class....

In returning to the point where things began...a very idiotic video (which will remain nameless and will not have a link to it posted) was shown at the beginning of class. Fortunately for me, this video was so stupid, all our note passing revolved around making fun of the video instead of the class and the teacher.

So when the notes got taken up...there was nothing to do but laugh