The calc homework is conquered once again.

I actually have something to tell today. Today I figured out that there is someone who has almost the same schedule as me. Weird, huh? I mean, out of the tens of thousands of students that are here and out of the hundreds of classes to choose from, there's thousands of possible combinations and someone has almost the same schedule as me. He's in my Honors Calc class, I believe he's in Great Books, and I saw him in my Music Theory lecture today. I think that's as close as it will get.

My partner in German today was a guy named Dave. He was cool and he likes bagels.

Radio U is doing a pledge/money-drive thing. I'd like to give money, but I don't have a lot to spare right now. Maybe I'll call in. You should all call in and give money because Radio U rocks!

I like it when they're giving tours to prospective students and their parents because then when I'm walking down the hall towards my room with my backpack I feel cool. Like, "I'm already a student here and you're not! Ha ha nanner nanner."

So I was sitting in front of the TV doing my calc and I thought of something to write, but I can't think of it now. Hmmm... over half of my books are calc books. I have 3 textbooks and one student solutions manual, not to mention my Calculus for Dummies book or the Calculus Cliff's Notes (and Algebra and Geometry).

I am a freaking genius. No, not really, but I feel good about my learning capabilities right now. I had these two problems in calc that I was having trouble with. I worked and worked and I realized that my problem with number 14 was algebra. So because the problem was algebra, I knew it was hopeless to keep trying since we all know how good I am at algebra... or adding fractions for that matter. ;) Then there was number 60. The homework was due tomorrow so I decided to write down the best answers I could come up with. Then I remembered the math lab that my roommate had talked about. So at 7pm I made the trek to the math lab in East Hall. After I found it (I almost got lost at one point), I signed in and asked the guy at the "front desk" what I was supposed to do. He asked what my math class was and I said 185. He said that he wasn't sure if there was anyone around to help people in 185 so he told me to pull up a chair and he would help me. We started with 14 and to my complete surprise, I had been doing it right and I just didn't take it far enough. The algebra that we ended up doing on it was stuff that I had thought about doing. So that made me happy. Then we went to number 60. Number 60 was three parts: a, b, and c. The answer to part a was pretty much what I had written down. The answer to part b was almost exactly what I had done. The answer to part c was exactly what I had written. I was so happy. I was ecstatic. I almost wanted to skip back to my dorm I was so happy. I mean, back in high school, stuff like this never happened to me. I was never able to figure out stuff on my own without Doc walking me through it. And now I've done this many times already. Things that I had so much trouble with last year are easy now, and I love it... but I still want my solutions manual.

I went to a Bible study this evening and it was really fun.

My throat has a tickle in it.

And, Ryan, you made my night when you said to me, "this may sound weird, but I really miss your sarcasm... nobody pulls it off like you do." Aww, it put "warm fuzzies" in my heart.