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"If life gives you lemons, squeeze the juice into a water gun and squirt people in the eyes with it."
- This deep thought brought to you from Nina's subconscious.

Friday, October 03, 2003

War with Maple

I loathe Calculus. More specifically, I loathe Calc LAB! it's bad enough that i have to spend hours figuring what the hell is going on in that class, but then, on Friday I have to experience the great joy of rotting my brain in Calc Lab. What is Calc Lab? Ha!!!! for you poor suckers whose college is stupid enough to require this, you will have to waste hours upon hours on a maniacal calculus program named Maple.....yes, that's right...Maple. What an innocent name for the harbinger of doom. Apparently Maple can't even understand the simplest of commands unless it's written in super-special "Maple" code, which only those deranged Lab Ta's seem to know how to do. Oh yes, and did I mention, that when you finally manage to the complete the assignment, the program practically eats it and laughs cruelly while you try frantically to find it. Yes, all this and more awaits the unsuspecting college student.
The earlier part of this day didn't go any better. I woke up at the inhuman hour of 7:00 a.m., taught a bunch of comatose freshman some chemistry, then ran off to slowly die of boredom in Organic Chem for an hour. After choking down some lunch so I don't pass out, i spent the past hour in Calc Lab. See above paragraph for the rant about that.....god, still reeling from spendign 50 minutes fighting with Maple. In about a half hour I have to go to Calc lecture, where i can sit and either a) agonize about whether Prof. Troy will hand back the mid-term i took wednesday....or b) if he does hand it back, what the most painless method of suicide will be......
The only thing that would make this awful day any better is if I could just.....get.....some.....sleep...zzzzzzzz. *rubs eyes...babbles.....* "WHO"S THERE!". zzzzzzzz.......enough complaining for today. I shall depart to Calc...with a quote.
"SPIDERS SPIDERS SPIDERS!" Patrick from Spongebob.