I'm sitting here in my GrC 201 class. A whole lab filled with 20 inch screens connected to Mac G3 running on OS X. It should be wicked fun... but we're about to play with Microsoft Word. Hisss.... granted I do need to brush up on a few things like style sheets and outputing postscript files... we're going to also learn editing symbols... Editing Symbols?!? why did other kids learn about this sooner so I don't have to now?
Break's over...
Well, finals are done. You may think this to be a good thing... but i still have one dagger dangling over my head. Remember that English paper I was telling you about last night? Well, It's still here. But on the plus side I did end up creating a whole new intro for the paper. And I think I have a workable thesis.
The rest should be a piece of cake right? RIGHT?!? Only time will tell, I'll let you know the outcome... i'm not going to sleep till this is finished. Maybe just a wee nap first.
So I have three finals tomorrow and a paper due on Tuesday, and what do I do... make an entry.
My paper writing skills have vanished and in an effort to recapture them I've decided to play them out here. Who would have thought that writing a paper about the nature of the alienation of Eliot's Prufrock would have proven so difficult. Maybe its because I wrote a similar paper for the same professor not more than nine months ago and I feel compelled to out do myself. Yeah, that's why I've been sitting here browsing sites about Victorian social ill, the rise of the Modernist movement and the idea of aboulie (you know the problem but you refuse to do anything about it, like apathy).
I have three different intros for the same paper in the works. I know that if I can just get my intro and thesis out then I will be able cannibalize my other paper and utilize the Eliot research I got a few days ago. But until then, here I am...
My finals don't worry me. As judy was fond of pointing out, you just have to be apathetic toward them and it will all work out. But of course I don't need apathy when I have an open book stat exam, a 75 question multiple choice GRC exam, and an english inductive essay exam (I hope my skills are back by then).
This is Mike from the UU, signing off, for now.
My GRC teacher never ceases to amaze me. But in a good way.
We discussing the print and distribute vs. distribute and print models on how things should be printed. Somehow we got on the subject of Junk Mail. I think actually the course of thought went electrostatic printing presses, variable data, then the benefits that would have in the junk mail industry.
Junk Mail sparked something in him and he spouted: "we should just bury the trees." Some laughed, others stared dumbly, most continued to ignore the lecture all together. He continues (I will be paraphrasing here) that bulk mailing is the stupidest and most vastful industry there is. All that we do with our junk mail is simply throw it away (or recycle it). Rather than cut down the trees, load them on trucks, ship them to paper mills, cut, pulp, process them into paper (an expensive and dirty process) and then ship the paper to be printed on and then just thrown away, we should just cut down the trees and bury them right there in the ground. That's where they will end up anyway. What do you think the average response rate is for bulk mail? 'one percent', someone yells out. That's a big exaggeration. There is only a .5% response rate. If you send out 100 flyers, half a person will respond. The shameful part is that the people who put these things out are happy with thte job they are doing. It's absolutely astonishing.
Here endith the lecture. GRC rules!
So what's one of the few good things left about Cal Poly? Wireless internet in the UU and Library. That's where I am now, sitting in a big comfy chair in the UU. Sure I have to lug around my hefty Gateway 2000 (the laptop that looks and weighs as much as a steel plate) but at least I can always be on.
Lame title but anyway... I'm conditionally accepted to GRC. Yay me! Now just a few signatures and I'll be on my way.
On a "minor" note... I will be attempting to minor in English.
Guess my sister was right... I don't know jack about engineering and probably won't even like it. Thanks Jen!!