Pete’s got class…

What happens if you drop a Japanese Statistics book out of a window? I think that’s what I’ll be finding out this year as I take Statistics, Japanese, and Physics on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. It looks like it shouldn’t be too bad.

Our Stats professor is a moron. Stupid question of the day: “Do you all know how to use the internet?” He says “mmmkay” at the end of every single sentence, and his voice reminds me of the teacher from Beavis and Butthead. Our first homework assignment is to log on to the class chatroom (yes, the class chatroom) and write two messages discussing what we think about the course website. This is, he claims, just to make sure we all know how to use the internet. He also copyrighted his syllabus and lectures — we’re not allowed to sell them to anyone. Since this is obviously BS, I’d like to know if any of you would like to buy notes from GES 255 at the University of Alabama.

After and hour break, I headed off to Japanese, which looks like it’ll be ok. It took the professor a good 20 minutes to say anything in English, which was ok. Most of us caught on to what he was asking and how to respond. One guy, we’ll call him “Sam” (because that’s his name) is a little scary. He’s sloppy looking, sweaty (then again, who isn’t in weather like this), in a perpetual state of disheveledness and looks like he drools. He had issues with the few phrases we learned today and became quite frustrated. In fact, he became so irate with himself once, that he resorted to violence — he slapped himself in the head, quite hard, three times for getting something wrong. Seems like a viscous cycle to me: get answer wrong, hit self in head. Hit self in head, cause brain damage. Cause brain damage, get more answers wrong… I have a hard time deciding what the cause is here… but the effect is DEFINITELY funny.

Physics is odd. They’re doing something called “studio physics” which means that the lecture and lab are combined. It should be interesting. I have Dr. Jones, who’s a cool guy. I walked home with a girl that I met in the class (well, back to HER home) and she drove me the rest of the way to mine. She seems pretty cool, and I actually initiated conversation with her on the way out of the building.

Tonight Circle K is having a “back to school” bowling thing… instead of having a club meeting (like we normally do on Wednesday nights) we’re going bowling. The turn out should be good, and bowling is always a good time… so I’m looking forward to that. Between now and then I’ve gotta eat something and work on fixing Ms. Christy’s computer. Oh, and start responding to email (but that’ll probably wait until after bowling)

Tomorrow I’ve got Japanese (It’s a 5-day-a-week class) and Microcomputers. Well… I’m off to eat and bowl…