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Posted April 26th, 2006 at 6:18PM

Today Al Franken broadcasted his radio show live from Ithaca College. I was fortunate enough to snag a ticket at the last second (they were free, but I had forgotten all about the event and never went and picked one up). Three hours, but it was generally fun. Variety of guests, from Ithaca mayor Carolyn Peterson to several professors from Cornell and IC. It was a good crowd, most of Emerson Suites was filled. Entertaining. I didn’t get a book signed however. I wanted to buy his newest (The Truth (With Jokes)) but it’s currently only out on hardcover, and I didn’t have the money to swing that.

Tomorrow is my last day of classes. Another semester down, only two more to go. Phew. The end of the year workload is really not that bad, but that won’t stop me from bitching. I need to work on two essays for my Public Essay class, I have two reviews, an essay, and a full-blown article between my Feature Writing and Writing as a Critic classes. A final in Macroeconomics.

Again, not that bad, but I’m also going to be moving out of my sublet this coming weekend (before finals). Speaking of which, I only need to be around on Tuesday and Wednesday next week, so I’ll drive to Ithaca early on Tuesday, then stick around, sleeping in the car, doing my stuff on Wednesday, and then jetting back home.

Indeed, It’s A GPA Raising Semester

Posted February 8th, 2005 at 4:18PM

We took a quiz in my Race in US Politics class last Thursday. On the previous Tuesday, he told us we were having it, layed out what it would be on (the reading for that day). I made sure to do the reading. However I misread the syllabus, and only read one of the two readings. I realized this just before class, and spent five minutes scanning a thirty or forty page paper. I get to the class, there are four questions, only one on the second reading. Great.

I had no idea how he would grade them. I was pretty careful with the questions I knew, and I did an OK job bullshitting the question on the reading I only scanned. At the end of class today, he handed back the papers. I got a 99, scale of 100.

Each question was worth fifteen points, and if you got at least ten points total, he added fourty points (if you couldn’t pick up ten points, you obviously didn’t read (and don’t have the ability to write anything remotely connected to the class, apparently)).

Totally blows my mind. I got full credit on the last question, missed a point elsewhere. It put me into my first good mood in several days. Wild.

Bad Religion — Materialist
Youâ€™re obsesssed and distressed
Cause you canâ€™t make any sense of the ludicrous nonsense
And incipient senescence
That will deem your common sense useless
This ainâ€™t no recess!

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