Where in the world is Carmen Sandistupidface?

Scott here…. I’m kind of tired… I’d say today was good. Got up- had 2 classes (organic and GEOGRAPHY) man I hate that stupid geography class… it’s the only upper division class I could add that would fit my schedule. How do geography majors live with themselves?? What are they contributing to society?? Let me know if you figure something out because I have no idea. I mean… the teacher would talk about different parts of the world and she knew all these little mountains and she knew which way the rivers flowed, and she could talk about the climates in those areas… but I mean… who really cares? Its not like there is another continent to discover or anything… its all here, and there are things called ATLASES where you can look this stuff up. Its almost like being really good at mental division or multiplication… it can be impressive… but its nothing new, and you can just get the correct answer from a calculator. I just loved how the teacher thought she was so important… like what she was telling us mattered at all. I hate those classes where you read something, and then come in and talk about it. We as a class just share our views on what we thought about the reading, and the teacher agrees or disagrees and tells us what she thought about it. Is that really learning? My sociology class is at least halfway interesting… its just… man I feel sorry for anyone who is seeking a geography degree… I can't even wrap my mind around the meaninglessness I associate with that (my apologies to any of you who have geography related interests…. Sorry… it’s just stupid…but that's my opinion). The thing I liked the most was, at the end of the class when she was meeting with the people who were adding (I missed the first class because I couldn’t add it until Tuesday afternoon)… she tells me to look over the syllabus and make sure I really want to take the course (she meant that as a “because it might be too hard for you” kind of reason). I smiled… “well I think I can manage, and besides I need this to graduate so it doesn't really matter how hard it is”, was my response.

Mandy is going through some tough stuff right now… she is about to find out if she is going to remain #1 in the class rankings after they put a new system into place. They had always done it on a 100 point scale… so if you always made… say… 94s in every class you took… your final average would be 94. You get the picture. Well Mandy’s placement based on the 100 point scale average for all her classes is firmly #1, but they will be changing it to a 4.0 GPA scale where AP classes get a +1 bump because of their difficulty (so an A in AP English would be worth a 5.0). Mandy couldn’t take as many AP classes because of marching band and concert band (I know what that's like- I really wanted to take AP biology but I couldn’t), SO people who had enough time to take more AP classes will have a higher possible GPA- make sense? I think its really lame… I mean… so what if that's how colleges do it? I don't know… the thing is… she would have made arrangements to take more AP classes if she knew they were going to do this, but they didn't decide till about 2 weeks ago- after class selections had already been made and too late to take and more AP classes since they start in the beginning of the year. So she might get bumped down a spot or two… but she isn't sure. They are probably going to announce it tomorrow, and so we’ll see how that goes… I’d still love to see her give the speech at graduation.

I had a great meeting with Roger Davis (a member of the admissions committee for UT Memphis) about my interview coming up here pretty soon. He said I have a good shot, and that I shouldn’t worry myself about it. He said I presented myself very well, and I had good eye contact (see, I can turn it on if I need to), and a great attitude and stuff. He was very confused how I got 95th percentile and only have a 2.5 GPA… I tried to explain my lack of motivation and that seemed to satisfy him… he said if I could explain it well enough at the interview it shouldn’t be too much of a problem. He was very complimentary after we got through our 1 ½ hour discussion, and he seemed to be very optimistic… I’ve also been forgetting the fact that my being male gives me an advantage… (75% of pharmacy classes are female). OK well now I’ve gotta get some sleep because I’ve got a pretty long day tomorrow… class till 2 and then work till 9… but that just makes the downtime oh-so-sweet.


i calls this one:
this is the set where we got to kinda chill out and play loud after about 2 minutes of running around the field for the percussion solo. This is actually one step into the next fast part so you can see we are kinda still in play-loud position, but we have our left feet out for the first step. Nicley done, Todd (who took the picture).