It's always interesting sitting in the engineering computer labs, especially earlier in the morning. For the most part, people here at this time of day are those who've been up all night studying and are rushing to finish whatever tasks they have left before their class.

Unfortunately, as is evident by the fine gentleman passed out across from me, their efforts, though valiant, are usually fruitless. Even with the large doses of caffeine and sugar, byproducts of the candy wrappers and bottles of pop scattered about, and the persuasions of the mathematical equations on their screen, the effort to stay awake is just too much.

It's kind of serene, a pastoral college scene of sorts. [and yes, I know I'm using the word wrong, I realize pastoral has to do with images of shepherds, herders, and animal husbandry...I checked on dictionary.com.]

And he just twitched. Kind of reminiscent of my roommate's hamster that we're secretly hiding in our dorm room. Whenever it's sleeping, if you poke it or blow on it, though mean, it twitches a little bit before passing out again.

Sad really, that I'm reducing the common engineer to a small rodent. But despite all this rambling, I can't blame this fellow for sleeping in the lab. It's quiet, the chairs are comfortable, and the only alternatives in activity is to solve for things like the impedance of some circuit, the resistivity of some material, or derive the meaning of life using only duct tape, a toothpick, and a banana peel.

The perfect conditions for a nap :]

10:01 a.m.

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Dear Pedestrian,

While I find your shocked reaction to the sight of a bicycle endearing, please restrain yourself from running in front of me. This isn't a video game. You don't get points for hitting a bicycle.

The same applies for any flailing appendage in general. I have no qualms in running over the occasional hand or foot.

So please, body parts to yourself and refrain yourself from dive bombing my bike.

Thank you.

Your Friendly Neighborhood Biker

10:02 a.m.

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The (purely) Korean churches at our school have developed a brilliant strategy to maintain their status quo.

What it consists of, as was apparent on Quad Day yesterday (a 'mini-mall' of student clubs and such), is yelling out all their advertisements in...Korean. So clearly, if you're not Korean, or can't understand Korean, you'll just stare blankly at them and they won't hand you a flier.

Pretty efficient, really, since I guess they can weed out those they don't want in their church fairly easily by the confused expression on people's faces. As well, there will be no wasting of flyers, papers, and promotional things that you could otherwise give to the more...worthy.

Of course I can understand why they would do this, I mean, if the service IS in Korean, they wouldn't want to falsely advertise themselves and end up with church goers who get themselves into a world of trouble.

But it's just weird, just a little, when everywhere else, even in all the multi-cultural clubs, everyone's yelling/speaking/freaking-out in English, and they're the only ones blatantly speaking in Korean.

Kind of odd I suppose.

10:37 a.m.

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I'm sure everyone is quite familiar with the rather humorous (not really) and well known equation that results in the ultimate expression that

women = evil

since, after all, women = time * money; time = money; and money = sqrt(evil). Thus money^2 = evil.

Haha...VERY CLEVER.

Anyways, the reason that this came to mind was because of another equation that my dad showed me earlier yesterday written by a satirist in Taiwan. Apparently, the current rate of students attending colleges in Taiwan is close to 100%.

How, is this possible, you may ask? Well, while it'd be nice to think that the tiny island is actually the breeding place of geniuses, the phenomenon that's actually occurring is the fact that there no longer exist standards for many of the lesser colleges there.

In other words, the degree that the students attain upon graduation is more worthless than the paper it's printed on.

According to some reports, students who get an 18...out of A HUNDRED, on college placement tests can actually get into a college.

18/100

How does anyone get an 18% on a multiple choice test?! You'd either have to be a REALLY abysmally horrible test taker or you went out of your way to try and get every question wrong. I mean, even guessing one letter through the entire test, you'd probably be able to do better.

Anyhow, the equation I mentioned earlier goes as follows:

COLLEGE STUDENTS = sleep + eat + dating
PIGS = sleep + eat

THEREFORE:

all COLLEGE STUDENTS who are not dating, are PIGS.

and

all PIGS who are in a relationship, are COLLEGE STUDENTS.

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12:24 p.m.

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