| | Today was really nice, aside from forgetting to turn on my alarm and
thus sleeping through English (again). But I can't really bring myself
to care about that. I participated in two psych experiments in a row
today, and in one of them I was completely fooled! The experimenters
for that one conducted it under the pretense of it being about memory
and how it relates to age, but what they were really studying was
memory in terms of social conformity! I can't believe I fell for that
one so easily - I should have seen right through it (not like it
matters at all, they got their point across, but still...). After the
experiments I had about an hour to kill, so I went and took a catnap on
the lawn by the theatre. I've wanted to do that for a while, and it was
quite nice, because almost everyone else was either in class or inside
somewhere (I can't imagine why... it was a beautiful, warm day).
We're learning how to solve square roots by hand in calculus. All I
have to say to that is: my life is now complete. I can die happy
knowing how to solve square roots without a calculator.
</sarcasm> (Prof. Tran today: "Who needs calculators!? We're
gonna do this by hand! The college way!" -- a minute or so later he
gives up on that and plunks it into his computer)
Since yesterday was Valentine's Day (or Singles Awareness Day, thanks
to Cheryl's roommate, I believe) Nick and I decided to try our luck
with the speed dating thing. Well, it would have been a lot better had
more than myself, Nick and Richard from anime club (really annoying and
really likes me Katie and Ruth) shown up. That was a total bomb, but I
did get some free Bronco pom-poms out of it... I think the activity
coordinators felt kinda sorry for us, considering how loserish we
looked being the only ones interested in speed dating on Valentine's
Day.
As for the title of the post, it was something that came up in calc
today. Professor Tran was trying to explain why people wanted to
compute pi to several million decimal places. Since none of us could
really wrap our brains around it, he called it "The Pi Conspiracy".
Apparently there are a bunch of nutters in the world that think that if
they solve pi to enough decimal places they'll unveil a secret code
sent down by aliens or something. I was terribly amused.
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Cate. 18. CA. SCU. Clinically insane. Avid reader. Sucky guitar player. Psychology and Computer Science major. Possible History minor. Considering law school. Likes. Literature, history, theatre and directing/acting, film, guitars, music, skating, programming, web and graphic design, video games, dancing like a fool, making people laugh, traveling, world languages and cultures. Dislikes. Alcohol, midterms, loud roommates, being dirty, falling asleep in class, Safeway.
). aww, sorry the speed dating thing didn't work. i swear i didn't laugh too hard when i read that...XD and yay for skipping classes!! i've skipped so many, i have lost track. 
man, my mom told me its been like 80s over there. i was like: "OMGWTFGRAWR!" the low this week is supposed to be 9 degrees...-________-;; i hate u all.
