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March 28, 2004
Jonny the Prospie
I know I haven't posted in a few days, but there's been good reason, believe me. I just figured I'd post now and not wait for the evening like usual just in case any of you out there were wondering if I was still alive or anything.
I had my three midterms on Friday, and boy am I glad they're over. My E&M test didn't go so well. I nailed the first problem, but miserably failed the other two problems. Sigh. We were all more than a bit annoyed at Paul for that test. But then my Japanese and Visual Experience midterms went pretty well, I'm fairly confident I got A's on both of those. Two outta three ain't bad I guess. I have just one midterm left, Adv Math Methods on Friday, our last day of class before Spring Break. Man is that test gonna suck.
Have any of you Gusties ever gotten lost in SSC? Well, I sure did on Friday afternoon. I was taking Jonny, a prospie (more about him later), to an appointment at Prof. Jenner's office, and I totally couldn't find the so-called "Malkovich Floor." Somewhat embarrassing. I'm not incompetent, really! After wandering all throughout that strange messed-up building I finally found it though. Behold! The 1 1/2 floor!
Friday evening a bunch of us played football with the physics club. We juniors tried to take our aggressions out on Paul and his team of seniors and faculty, but we lost 3-1. Let it be noted, however, that they had a 7-5 person advantage, if you count Paul's 8-yr old son, who actually can play (he caught a TD for them). Sigh, we'll just have to get Paul some other way.
Both Friday and Saturday night I hosted Jonny, a prospective student from Plymouth, Massachussetts. He's a really cool kid, I really hope he decides to come to Gustavus next year. On Friday night we visited Liz & Jolene in Uhler with a few other physics guys, watched some basketball here in 202, and then went to see the free campus movie in Nobel, "The Last Samurai." It's the second time I've seen it, and despite the historical inaccuracies that Josh whines about, I thought it was a good movie. It also has one of the coolest battle scenes I've ever seen in a movie, it's quite striking visually.
Yesterday I worked at the Admissions Spring Open House from 9-2:30 (that's what Jonny was here visiting for), giving a couple tours and just helping out in general. Unfortunately, for my res hall tour at 1pm it started raining, and it rained the whole rest of the day. Kind of a crappy turnaround from Friday, when it was 70 and sunny and just gorgeous out.
Last night after Jonny and I watched the Oklahoma State - Saint Joseph's basketball game (St Joe's was my last chance to actually have a team in the Final 4 that I'd picked in my bracket, but with an OK St victory, Jonny has a good chance to win some money in his bracket, so all in all I'm fine that St Joe's lost), he and I went to Mankato with Josh to go see the new movie "The Ladykillers." It's an absolutely hilarious comedy written by the Coen Brothers, and starring Tom Hanks. Josh and I loved it; Jonny did too, although he thought it was kinda strange (which is natural, since he apparently hadn't seen a Coen Brothers film yet), hehe. I highly recommend it to everyone out there, it's a great movie! After that Jonny & I stayed up for awhile just talking about tons of stuff, high school, college, life, pretty much everything. I really enjoyed hosting him this weekend, he's such a nice kid. I'm hopin' that I'll see him on campus next year when I get back from Australia, but we're still gonna keep in touch even if he chooses a different college, so that's cool. Did I mention that he's a cool kid? :-) This morning he left for the airport to go back home.
In other news, Josh got the problems with the mysql database on the seenoevil server fixed. The database was corrupted, which was causing our posts to be displayed in a completely random, messed-up order, and it was what was also preventing us from importing all of our old posts properly before. So now we have all of our old posts back, and in the right order too! Oh, and you'll probably notice that on the sidebar on the left I've added a link to the Section 202 webcam, so you can watch us sitting there on the couch putting off our homework, hehe. It updates once every minute, so it's not like you're watching a live-action movie or anything, check it out.
Also in other news, I've finally decided on a laptop. I'll be buying a new 15" Macintosh PowerBook over Spring Break, so that I'll hopefully have it sometime by the end of April. Needless to say my sectionmates are quite happy that I'm getting a Mac, and I've also been getting a lot of grief from my oldest brother Nathan and some of my other Windows friends, hehe. It's a bit pricier than a PC laptop, but I'm willing to pay a bit extra for what will hopefully be a very reliable, versatile, portable machine for me while I'm in Australia, and then at grad school. But once Josh and I get our PowerBooks, we'll have 13 -- THIRTEEN -- working computers in our section! And I'll have the best laptop of them all, mwuhahahaha! Plus, I may have convinced Carl to also purchase a PowerBook over Spring Break, assuming his mom doesn't kill him for doing so. :-) Go PowerBook lust!
Well, I suppose I should stop procrastinating sometime soon, and actually get going on my E&M assignment. Sometime this week I'll get some photos posted from President's Ball earlier this month, Carl finally got the pictures loaded onto his computer. I'll post something when I put the album on my webpage. Now time for Olin...sigh.
Posted by Jared at March 28, 2004 04:57 PM