Oh happy day...

I just finished reading a neat article. It's politic related, but not really, it's interesting, enjoy.

This morning I woke up and checked my email, as I do everyday. Only today was different, I was really tired. In my tiresome stupor I came upon what I thought to be a mirage. Could it be? An email from my Econ professor that class was cancelled at 8:00 this morning!?!?! YES, it was! What joy followed only to be overcome by me springing back into bed and falling back to sleep for an extra hour and a half. What a wonderful start to the day. Especially after the Packers dominating win over the Carolina Panthers last night. I hope you were all there to see the start of the decline of the Super Bowl runnerup.

I had my chem lecture again yesterday. It is taught by Thao Yang I believe that's his name, and he thinks that we're five-year-olds. I will give you some quotes from my professor, if you can call him that. These are off from his powerpoints, directly, and unaltered.

What are air made up of?
Dry Air: Nitrogen 78%
Oxygen 21%
Other Stuffs 1%

Bad stuffs that we don't want in the air (Air Pollutants).


And then beyond that he had us changing numbers into scientific notation for like 15 minutes, and he kept doing the same one over again. Okay, so I have more ranting to do with him, from last week Friday. He was showing us his powerpoint, this was our first day of lecture, this is how it went.

First of all you must read this as a man with an Asian accent, and think of someone who's 5' 1" looking up at you with the most dumbfounded expression.

(A picture of the Earth taken from the moon is displayed on the powerpoint)
Yang: "What is this?" Long pause...
Yang: "What is this?" Long pause...
Yang: "What is this?" Long pause...
Yang: "It's a picture of the Earth from far away."
(clicks to next slide on the powerpoint, another picture of the Earth, only closer so you can make out Africa)
Yang: "What is this?" Long pause...
Yang: "What is this?" Long pause....
Yang: "What is this?" Long pause...
Yang: "It's a picture of the Earth from closer."
(now alternating between this picture and the previous one.)
Yang: "Far away" click
Yang: "closer" click
Yang: "Far away" click
Yang: "closer" click
(now another picture comes up, it's the Earth, but now you can see the great lakes and the Midwest)
Yang: "What is this?" Long pause...
Yang: "What is this?"
(only twice this time, but with an extremely long pause, we thought maybe he died standing up)
Yang: "It's an even closer picture of the Earth"
Yang: "closer" click
Yang: "farther away" click
Yang: "and really far away" click
Yang: "and a little closer" click
Yang: "and then closer" click
( another new picture, only this is of Tokyo with hundreds of people in an intersection crossing the street)
Yang: "and then even closer"
(I don't feel like typing it but he went back through them at least once more, and here comes the craziest thing he said)
Yang: "Now you understand."

But the thing is, he never told us what the point of that whole thing was, I'm assuming he was using it as a metaphor for breaking things down to the molecular level, but he never said that!! ahhhh!

OH! And another from yesterday...

He again is going through his powerpoint presentation...

(a picture of the earth taken from an airplane or spacecraft so you can see the curved horizon and the ozone layer in the sunrise/sunset)

Yang: "This is just a very beautiful picture of a sunset from your textbook." Long pause...
Yang: "Here you can see the ozone layer, and it's a very beautiful picture. um.. (pause) from your textbook." Long pause...
Yang: "Um... there isn't anything you need to memorize here" (obviously since it's an effin' picture!)
Yang: "It's just a beautiful picture I wanted to show you.. so... " (a full minute pause until he started talking about something else)

And then he finally moved on. I should also mention that he talks incredibly slow. And from Friday when he kept on flipping back and forth between the pictures after about the 5th time through it the class just lost it. He had about 75 people laughing at what he was saying, and that made him give us an even more dumbfounded look. I could barely contain my laughter through the 50 minute class yesterday. Also, I wrote down everything that he said and everything from the powerpoint, (other than the picture of the sunset) and I only have ONE page of notes. Not even crunched together or anything. So we spent two class periods now on half of what we were supposed to do in one class period. How nice... This could turn out to be a very long semester. But andyway, I gotta go get my pizza, it just dinged.

Have a nice summer!

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