a = g*sinθ God God Damn it Damn it

Howdy ho gents. I'm basking in the last few minutes of freedom before the week begins and figured I'd post something in the general direction of you glorious bitches.

Last week was long. As predicted it consisted of studying for and taking my Advanced Mechanics exam on Thursday. We do these tests on Thursday since most people in the Liberal Arts college have Thursday off so we can take it when we feel like it and take as long as we want. Now I don't have mornings off as I have to TA for the Physics I lab, the one without calculus. Almost all the students are pre-med or just trying to get rid of their lab science requirement. The lab was literally just a ramp with a block, you know the angle, find the acceleration. Being someone studying for the advanced classical mechanics exam all night it was really hard not to start screaming a = g*sin θ at the top of my lungs. I did find it funny when one of the students asked if I had taken the Calculus based physics, but the way she said it, there was a lot of emphasis/reverence put on the phrase "calculus-based". I really wanted to respond, "Nay, I have only heard of it in lore" but I told her I did and that I was now taking advanced calculus-based physics which just turns out to be differential equations based physics with some tensor calculus thrown in for good measure.

Then I took the test and in good Loucks test fashion, it took me six god damned hours. Interesting fact: not the longest Loucks test I've ever taken. The past two weeks though had been building up to that test so it felt really good to be there. Because it was the end of my hell weeks for a little bit. I had that night afterwards planned out. I had a few Sam Adams in the fridge and recently had received Forza 4 in the mail as I had left it at home like an idiot. So got out, catched up on the Daily Show for a week and stayed up racing my Fiesta around Mt. Fuji. It was almost disappointing when I woke up and realized it was Friday and still had to sit through classes.

Then we went to the Spears Auction in Andover. It's this biweekly estate auction that takes place in a warehouse in the middle of the woods and is filled with lots Amish people and elderly people with camouflage clothing. You walk in and get your number, there is soda, coffee and little debbies snacks with a little bowl to put a dollar in if you get anything. Then they auction off a fuck load of stuff, complete with the auctioneer guy talking fast and making lots of cracks about Obama care when selling file cabinets. "Thirty dollars. 25 dollars. Come on people think Christmas. Opening bid at 20 dollars. Think of the 9000 pages of Obamacare you can store in that thing. 10 dollars." Its an insanely good time. I got a new charcoal grill and a big Coca-Cola pitcher. My roommates got a wireless pc game controller, some picture frame and a heated foot massager. The picture frame is for our room portrait. We're going to take a picture of the four of us and then I'm going to photoshop the hell out of it and make a paint by numbers and then paint it. Exciting stuff.

Then this weekend we had our first forest battle for Boffer. Our club has gotten so much bigger and better with this new crop of Freshmen type recruits. We had a problem last year with people who saw us as a light version of the campus Medieval Club. Most of our members were Medieval Club people who wanted to sword fight twice as much in a week. The problem was that they hit really fucking hard in Medieval Club. They have fight practice where they put on a fuck load of leather and actually bash each other in with baseball bats. This is not how Boffer Club works. Second they wear tunics and have roleplaying alter egos and all this stuff and that culture was being applied to us to the point we were having trouble distinguishing ourselves. Well these freshmen don't have such preconceptions, we had two separate booths at the Club Fair after all and our booth had no armor and handed them a free sword on principle.

So the forest battle was Grade A bad ass. We were in the woods for maybe four hours with over twenty people and they are all A+ people. I think I'm going to enjoy running this club this year. Until next time guys.

Gaze upon my creation and be in awe.
GAZE UPON IT!

A Rainy Day Post

Hello gents!

It has been raining like mad here today and most of the weekend which is kind of a bummer. We took the t-shirt launcher to our first football game on saturday but due to the crappy weather the crowd was quite thin. Here's a sweet picture of the Black Bear mascot Bananas with the launcher.

Complete with electronics rain condom

It has been a decent weekend, hung out with Dave a bit and built a motor test stand for our senior project. I'll hopefully get to see if I got the dimensions remotely right tomorrow. Got to drive this enormous diesel truck this weekend which was kind of cool. The truck pulled really hard when you step on the gas, nothing really revs up it just goes. I wouldn't want a truck that large but basically diesel powered things are sweet.

I've been learning to use this awesome PCB CAD software that costs like $6000 a seat at school. It's called Altium and it can do all kinds of neat stuff. It even has 3d models of the components which is just plain cool. On top of that you can connect different parts with a supplier webpage and it will even tell you if that part is in stock when you place it in a circuit. Pretty sweet. Hopefully we'll make a PCB design with it for our motor controller. We'll have another order of parts for our senior project coming in right off so that should be sweet.

Planning on crankin out some serious progress this week before taking off to visit my sister in DC on friday. Also talking myself out of buying this HUGE MOTOR! So many electric vehicle things....

Exhausted from the Homework or the Lectures or Some Shit Like That

I am way to exhausted for it to be Monday. I've gone through four classes and already demand another weekend.

Well instead of that shit I've just been watching these sketches about RAF Pilots from this show called Armstrong and Miller. Basically it's like these two pilots with the flying the planes and shit like that, who are always smoking their pipes yeah and talking in modern slang and this that and everything else. It's right humorous blood.







Isn't it.

Talking To You Guys is Better Than Homework

Just woke up from the brilliant idea of a pre-homework nap that Elliot suggested. Now I'm still tired and have less time to do a lot of work. I have yet to look at how much it all really is and am afraid to, so instead I will tell you gents about life and such like.

Holy crap, I haven't posted since Black Forest Star Party. Funny since I've had this post open as a draft that entire time. Well good place to start.

BLACK FOREST STAR PARTY WAS AMAZING.

Pictured: Amazing

That gets its own paragraph. Now it time to qualify that statement. Star parties are like any type of standard camping trip. You set up your tent and your camp chairs and chill with people. The big difference is that when the sun sets you do not build a fire to stay warm. The only thing you got that will do that is your jacket and enthusiasm and wouldn't you know I left my jacket in Maine. This is because any light whatsoever, any white light, will draw the fury of thousands of astronomers whose night vision/photo you just ruined. Just ask this numbskull when he opened the door to his Jeep and the lights came on, so much pissed off in my direction.

They don't like having to look away from this so I can
find my Doritos....

Because of this though, I got more dark adjusted than I have ever in my entire life. I was walking around by star light alone. The fun thing is meeting all these cool people, but you have no idea what they look like until you see them the next day. Some stranger walked into our camp during breakfast and I was about to say what the hell until he talked and I suddenly realized "Steve!". Steve was a great guy, had a very nice 20" Dobsonian, got the best view of the Orion Nebula I have every seen through it.

Pictured: Steve

Stayed up all night, two nights in a row. Was able to see the Lagoon Nebula, The Great Cluster in Hercules, the Trifid Nebula, The Double Cluster, the Orion Nebula and Andromeda all with the unaided naked eye on top of everything I saw through so many brilliant telescopes. Just before sunrise I even got to see my shadow cast by Venus. Venus was bright enough to cast shadows on its own. Like holy shit.

Venus shadow, bitches.

I am addicted to these things now and this really helped boost my confidence in going into astronomy. You sit around just learning the facts and figures of it all and you forget why it was so damned interesting in the first place. Also actively hunting the skies with people who have been passionately doing this for years with no pay probably taught me more practical astronomy than I have gained from 4 years of getting my degree in it, in a single weekend to boot.

I will be back, oh yes.

The rest of the week is sort of a blur of Quantum exam, Quantum exam and my test in Quantum Mechanics. It required my full attention for the entire week. Then the weekend came, we watched Dr. Who at the Observatory, as is of course tradition. It was my roommate Josh's 21st and since he isn't really into bar culture we just had some beers while watching Louie. Then today I spent the entire damn day smoking a pork shoulder to make the tastiest damned pulled pork you ever had.

Ian, you better be rooting for me to get accepted to UW.
This could be every damn night.

This week will be a blur of Mechanics exam, Classical exam and my test in Advanced Classical Mechanics.

Sic itur ad astra mother fuckers.

Senior Progress

It's pretty obvious that posts on here have slowed since Tyler and I went back to school, so I figure I should show you a little of what I've been up to. This semester, I get up and drive to campus for class and in between/before/after class I spend time working on my senior project which is a brushless motor controller. Basically I am trying to be like 1/16th as good at this guy. I took a couple of pictures though to show our progress a little, the pictures don't really do justice the time we have put in so far but hey that's how this whole learning thing goes right?

I've been S-T-RUGGLIN' on this PWM thing on the AVR, got some test code working but can't seem to the frequency to be what I want. This will be that piece that drives the gates in our half bridge circuits. Checkout my old school O-scope in my room, awh yeah.

 Dave has a talent and patience for laying out breadboards neatly. Pictured below are our six gate drive ciruits (two for each phase), a sweet MOSFET array (complete with repurposed heat sink), a voltage regulator and our brushless motor direct from Hobbyking (...China).

In that picture we are actually only using the motor as an inductor to see how we handle switching inductive loads. We used a function generator to test some stuff on it but to really test it we need hall effect sensors and an AVR with all sorts of fancy programmin'. 

Left on the list of stuff to do is still basically everything, but high priority items include: learning everything about the AVR atmega8, mounting hall effect sensors, making a motor test stand, learn to use KIcad, use KIcad to make schematics/pcb layout, make a control loop and stuff and make sure we meet out specs. Basically, there is a shit load to do. I am actually enjoying it a lot though and working on it is sort of addicting, I'll be pumped once we start spinning the motor. 

In other news Ian is coming tomorrow. YEAHHHHH BUDDDDYYY!

FURNITURE!

Today I went to IKEA with Allie and bought furniture.  Whoo!  It'll be arriving Wednesday, so I can finally sleep on an actual bed after 3 months of sleeping on an air mattress.  Then I cooked an entire box of pasta for dinner, and it's clear I will be eating pasta approximately forever.  Also had a Slutty Pumpkin.  Turns out I don't like Dirty (ie with an extra shot of expresso) Pumpkin Spiced Iced Lattes, so it was honestly disappointing.  I also started reading Ben Rich's Skunk Works, and now feel totally inferior as an engineer.

Yesterday I hiked Mt. Pilchuck with some other Boeing people.  Fan-freakin'-tastic views.

Corn Mazes and Electric Bikes

Friday, we got to checkout a somewhat homebrew E-bike build by this lady who does public relations for the college of engineering. She isn't an engineer but she read a bunch about e-bikes and kind of pieced this bike frame, hub motor and battery setup together. She had someone build a custom battery box for it and filled it with lithium iron batteries which is sweet. The lady was pretty well informed, I was pretty impressed to hear her talk about it and she even reads endless-sphere.com where all the cool e-bike kids are. The best part was that we got to ride it which was VERY cool. I'm actually a pretty big e-bike fan but I've never gotten to ride one.... hey do you know anyone with an E-bike? Exactly. The acceleration was great, the brakes seemed to be a little under sized though. The controller even has a regenerative brake activated by a button but it doesn't really load the motor much and doesn't slow you down that fast. Overall though, it was awesome and made me want to build awesome electric vehicles even more. 

So this weekend we made a trip to Treworgy Orchards in Levant which is like a half hr ride from Milford. They have an amazing corn maze that is huge and awesome and shaped like a turkey. It was sweet, all of my roommates went and some of their associated women folk. There are these stations you have to find in the maze and they have a name and a location on them, you mark it down on your map and try to figure out this politically correct version of Clue. Anyways, Chris and I started zipping through the maze and in our haste forgot to write down the location and only marked down the names of the people.... we felt pretty stupid but it was awesome. At the end of the maze you get an ice cream too, nice! Oh, we picked apples too. Zach's girlfriend (left) made apple crisp, chicken pot pie and M&M cookies for us. She is excellent. 

Couples Picture

Had a beer with Richard Qualey (yes that guy from 1st year who lived with Toby and left at christmas time) last night which was cool. We had some folks over last night, including one dog. I'll just leave this progression of photos here.... 

Why Did the Libertarian Fail Algebra?

He failed to solve inequalities.

Haven't had anything of interest or import happen and I don't have any particular gripes to vent about so a joke my roommate just told me will have to do.

Another one:

There are 10 types of people in this world.

Those who know binary.

Those who don't.

Those who weren't expecting base 3 jokes.

I'll be in the middle of the Pennsylvania woods soon, so I guess see you bitches on my return Sunday night.

I Feel Like I Should Post Something

I really don't have a whole lot to post about honestly, but the recent return of Tyler has inspired me to chime in.

Went to the gym in the morning today.... wouldn't really recommend it, I think I'll try to stick to afternoon/evening sessions. I work really well in the morning on school stuff so I will probably just try to do that and gym it in the afternoon. I rowed a 5000m today though.... which was pretty far for me.

Looks like we will be shooting t-shirts at a football game or two this year which could be pretty awesome. Maybe we'll even milk some cash out of athletics to upgrade the launcher and replace some parts that need replacing.

Been trying to learn to program this AVR microcontroller we've got for our senior project. It's actually been pretty sweet but not terribly exciting to discuss.... I could tell you that I learned how to enable global variables by setting bit 7 of the status register but no... just... no.

Working on the reprap a bit tomorrow afternoon and then the weekend.... my god it feels awesome to have saturdays back during the school year. I don't think I can express how strange it is to me to have the workload I have now.... it's just god damn awesome. I even have time to do stuff like cook awesome meals like wicked tasty tacos, boiled dinner and baked ziti (highly recommended for its extremely high deliciousness/$ rating). Don't really have any real plans for the weekend so hopefully it turns out to be badass.

Dave and I have been recently speculating on new car purchases and wondering how the hell anyone buys a new car without at least like a 6 year payment plan. Basically, the Audi A3 that we looked at the other day is in the ballpark of $30k which ...... is just ridiculous even on an engineer's salary it's pretty nuts the amount of money you have to lay down. Besides that, we looked at a bunch of trucks that were going for $50k+, who buys this shit?!

Thursday

To cap off my rant yesterday: "Just as the U.S. should not be blamed for the offensive film of a few deluded whackos, Libya should not be blamed for the unjustified violence of a few ignorant extremists".

Anywho I have a lot of homework tonight so I'll keep it brief, also I have Karate in 5 minutes. Gah. My twice weekly reminder of how flatfooted/asthmatic/out-of-shape I really am.

This weekend is the Black Forest Star Party at Cherry Springs State Park in Pennsylvania. Gonna be camping with hundreds of other astronomy folk and hopefully getting a peak through some cool ass telescopes. Maybe I'll have pics, maybe I won't. Guess you'll just have to wait and see. Suspense gentlemen, it's the spice of a good narrative. Fuck the time, got to go karate some people, ttyl. Bitches.

Edit: The Onion for the fucking win: [NSFW] [NSFL?] 

Bitchtits provides the lulz

This screenshot needs no caption.

Statistics

The chance of the true answer being far away from the mean answer is pretty remote.

Also, Tyler, can you splice a video together for me?  Youtube doesn't have Will McAvoy's rant followed by Jenny showing up at the Newsroom and asking for an internship and Will asking her to "Ask me your stupid question again!"  Because that made me feel even more 'Murica F*#& Yeah than the pilot rant itself.

Today I did a bunch of work.  And then I stopped at McDonalds for dinner.  For some reason I had a craving for a shake and a salad.  The shake was really good.  The salad was disappointing.  I wanted a McDonald's salad and I was disappointed.  That's how disappointing it was.

I am not at my computer very often

Concert was awesome, got a picture here from the front row with Steve Morse and Dave Larue rocking the fuck out:

Pictured: rocking the fuck out

Had a lot of fun in NY as I tend to with the pizza and people and the lights and holy fuck the Pastrami. Have you had a proper NY pastrami sandwich from a jewish deli? It's like an entire cow stuffed between two crackers.

Pictured: Proper Meat:Bread Ratio

Got back to a weekend in Alfred and moved into the week with fuck tons of homework that I have no time to do around my several on campus employers. So basically life kicks ass.

Warning, I'm about to rant

That being said, I am raging a bit about the embassy attack in Libya. Not for the same "fuck Obama" reasons that seem to be circulating between my more conservative Facebook friends. I'm just pissed that innocent men got killed over this video:

Do you know how much it cost to make that racist low quality piece of shit with bad acting and bad writing and bad message combined? 5 million dollars. That fucked up piece of shit actually cost $5 million. And this from 100 Jewish donors you'd think they'd know how to get more bang for their buck. Give me $5 million dollars and you will get something of higher quality and with a much better script and that is not setting the bar high on me relative to this morally corrosive steaming pile of shit movie making. That movie is seriously the real life equivalent of this:

More fucked up than that is that people watched it and got so angry they decided to murder people who probably had no idea such a waste of time piece of crap was even produced. The images coming in are gruesome and if you want my personal opinion this whole incident shows just how fucked up fundamentalist extremism gets, not just Islamic, but all of them. I get it guys, your imaginary friends don't get along but when your supposedly peace loving creator starts whispering in your ear to kill the heretics maybe you should reconsider staying in that particular social club.

So in summary, a video written by racist zionists living comfortably in America where none of this can effect them have made probably one of the worst edited movies since The Room in order to propagate hate of another people and instead of giving said movie the cold shoulder it deserved for production quality alone, this other religious group has decided to brutally murder people from the same country as these hate mongering syphillitic cunts based on the same sort of racism that led to the creation of the video.

I'm sorry if I'm coming off as a bit angry, because I'm trying to come off as a lot angry.

Nobody had to die over this, in fact nobody should have gotten a view for that video.

In conclusion:

Made an LED blink... Feel like a boss

Made some progress on my senior project today, got an AVR to program from my Mac with the help of my professor. It was a little difficult to setup but not too bad, the tricky part was that there is a pull-up resistor that isn't enabled on the programmer board. Basically what this means is sometimes the programmer board isn't recognized and if it isn't, you just have to touch the pin.... literally touch a pin with your finger and use yourself as a pull-up resistor by making certain to touch an adjacent pin. Then, the board works great. Glad my professor was able to catch this bug..... it would've taken me approximately 8 years and driven me insane.

Had our informational robotics meeting and got about 10 kids or so they all want to do another combat robot... so we'll see how that goes. Gotta talk to my friend John to see if we can go to home depot to get some lumber so I can build a huge table for my room.

9/11

I listened to the whole thing.  Absolutely chilling.  I'm struck by the incredible professionalism of the Air Traffic Controllers -- they swear only once.  The military guys are cursing, the government workers curse, but the ATC guys including the ones who watch the airplanes hit the Towers just keep doing their job.  When New York Center is informed that the second tower is hit he utters the only ATC swear in the tape.

"No Shit."

When they know Flight 93 is hijacked and the fight in the cockpit breaks out onto the frequency they totally keep it together.  When they inform incoming international traffic, "Good Morning.  The FAA is advising all incoming traffic to increase cockpit awareness and security."

Most chilling moment on the tape is after the first airplane hits the tower, ATC in Boston is relistening to their tape and one of them says:

9:02AM
"Tony? I'm going to reconfirm with, ah, with downstairs, but ah, the ah, as far as the tape, But Bobby Jones seemed to think the guy said that 'we have planes.' Now I don't know if it was because of the accent, or if there's more than one.  But, ah, I'm gonna, I'm gonna reconfirm that for ya, ah, and I'll get back to you real quick, ok?"

"And what?"

"Planes. As in Plural."

9:03 AM 2nd Tower is hit

9:04
"Tony, Terry, it's confirmed on that tape that they said 'we have planes.'"

Last First Week of School

Classes went well this week, definitely have some cool classes that should help me with my senior project and keep me pretty interested. I only have one lab and it won't be nearly as intense as the lab classes I had last year so that frees up a lot of time right there. Dave and I did diddley squat on senior project all summer so we kicked it into high gear this week and tried to get stuff rolling. We even put in an order to hobbyking where we bought this motor and this impulse buy. We've got to get our AVR programmed, get some other components in and build a test stand.

Friday night went out to the bars with everyone, where Sam proceeded to basically fuck with everyone's..... everything. I won't get into details but he definitely pissed off bitchtits.
Dave and I went to winterport dragway on saturday and met up with my dad and uncle Karl. It was pretty cool and they had some bikes there too which were sweet and terrifying.

Finally scratched my Dysarts itch last night with Chris and Josh scripture, damn that place is good. Informational meeting for robotics this week, we even got a handful of girls on the sign up sheet. Speaking of girls, I am currently watching Mean Girls with Chris. He introduced me to the show The League which is about a group of dudes who play fantasy football but it is hilarious and you don't have to know anything about fantasy football to like it.

INTERNET!!!!

Just making a 30 second post about how I have internet now and I'm super pumped. Currently making baked ziti.

On another note, I'd like to mention the pain the Brown family must be going through right now. My heart goes out to them and our good friend Mike. I don't know what kind of support it is going to take to help him through these times but I hope he knows how much his friends love him and will be there for him.

Mike's address is 22 Beech rd South Berwick, ME 03908 but I'm not sure how to get stuff to him at school.

What I Don't Like About The Newsroom

Let's get one thing straight.  I %#$*ing love the Newsroom.  It is seriously the greatest thing on TV (or the internet, because I don't have HBO).  Some of the reviews pan it as setting up straw man arguments, so they can be torn down.  And they have a point.  But since I identify so strongly with Will McAvoy... I couldn't really care less.

But I hate Jim Harper.  Why?  Because he's Jim Halpert.  Two Jim H.s, exactly the same character.  It's kind of disgusting.  And if you don't watch the show, you'll just have to watch it and find out.  Seriously Tony, you'll like it.

PLANES!

On Saturday, Allie and I headed out to McMinnville to see the Spruce Goose.  In Allie's words "No more planes.  Too many planes."  In Ian's words... not enough planes.

The Spruce Goose is huge.  Like... mindblowingly big.  Look at the comparison against the 747 on wikipedia if you don't believe me.  I was actually a little disappointed with the rest of the building that the Spruce Goose was in.  There were a bunch of neat airplanes, but the interpretation was nonexistant.  Because I'm a huge dork I could fill several volumes with boring information, but the typical passerby would have no idea how much boring information they are missing out on!  OTOH, the space hangar next door was extremely well intepreted... so maybe they are working on redoing the plane hangar?

Some pictures, with information where I feel I can bore most effectively.

A Pietenpol Air Camper.  I want to build one of these some day.

Spruce Goose tooling.  Huge!

A Rutan Quickie.  Neat looking airplane.

Apparently how Howard Hughes really made it was his dad invented this oil drilling tool seen above.

This really bothered me.  The placque talked about how accurate a replica this particular airplane was, but in 1917 when it was made pinked tapes (the tapes you can see with the triangular edges) did not exist.  Instead, they took a regular tape and separated the fibers along the edge (pulled some of the strands running along the chord out) to get extra surface area.  Ie, it was frilly at the edges.  2 thumbs down.  If you're going to claim it's a very accurate replica, you've got to be balls to the wall to the end.  Also I realize I'm probably one of 100 people in the world that would nitpick this... but still.

A forest of vortex generators

Spruce Goose Wine!

Technically Being Paid to Post This

I decided I am going to be a posting oppurtunist. I don't have much to say right now, but I am TAing an observational astronomy class on a rainy day. I just sit here while the teacher lectures and money trickles into my pocket. Works for me.

Highlight of the past two days has been grilling steaks every night for dinner on principle. The principle being steak is the greatest meat known to man. I missed my apartment. I find it funny how nice the on campus apartments are compared to the off campus ones.

Heading to NYC tomorrow to go to a Flying Colors concert on Thursday. If you haven't heard them I recommend a Google. They are a super group of Deep Purples guitar with Dream Theaters drums with Dixie Dregs on Bass and some random pop singer. It works. Will post pics. I might try to post on the blog from the Tim Hortons in Times Square. I know right where it is. In fact thats my new plan.

Until Thursday then...

edit: Spell check Tyler, Jesus...

Post Failed To Publish

So.... I tried to post to the blog a couple days ago from my phone but I got this error that just says "Post failed to publish". Can't really see why. I've tried to post it like five times in different locations but with no luck.

First day of classes today, basically seems like it will be a good year. Still have to slap the last couple scheduling things into place. We had this huge BBQ on the mall on saturday (which I wrote all about in that post that won't publish) where we got 45 names of interested freshmen. So, this week we'll be having an informational meeting about how cool we are and why they should do awesome stuff for us.

Definitely behind the 8 ball on senior project but Dave and I started to turn the tides today and get the ball rolling ordering parts and stuff. We've got 3 free samples of a wicked badass chip that we may or may not use coming our way. We also asked some computer engineers how computers work.... so that might be helpful. More on that, I am taking a class called ECE478 Industrial computer control with this professor who is basically the Toby of computer engineering. The class is about PID control and a bunch of other random computer topics which should be fun, especially since Toby is teaching it.

Spent 45 minutes on the phone with Time Warner today convincing them that they should give me cheap internet and repeating my personal information and billing information twice. They should be over Thursday morning to hook up our internet. I am actually in the engineering hall right now basically to use the internet. It's pretty great.

Other than that, I am basically reconnecting with some friends and doing my best to blast through any awkward situations. So far, I would say I have achieved mediocre success.

ONWARD!

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So I have been back in Alfred now for a week which is fun and cool and stuff like that though I am immediately swamped with a devastating workload from now to the end of time. Thats what I get for two 400 level physics and one 400 level math class. I know the word Loucks class means nothing to you, but know that taking two of them is considered a form of torture by the US Army Field Manual and several of our international allies. They are actually all amazing classes and the lectures are mind-blowingly amazing. It's just the work load. Think MSSM really. Amazing classes, fuck this work. So if it seems like I'm not posting often, it's because my brain is being sliced up and fried like in Hannibal.

Boffer Club is off to a fantastic start with a lot of new freshmen students who are very enthusiastic about the club and just generally good times.

Tony, as far as the RNC is concerned what I saw was a large number of white people invading Tampa to give people freedom from healthcare and education while establishing clear cut rules on how to operate our respective genitalia. Paul Ryan blatantly lied for half an hour straight, Romney threw the entire planets ecosystem under the bus and Clint Eastwood talked to a chair. Everything went as expected.

Praise Jesus.