Slip and Fall and Preying On Innocent Beans

Maybe this sign should have been outside to warn me

So, thats the only title I could come up with.  Since I was asked by a certain person on twitter, heres the gist of my day cause I know you people are dying to know…rrrriiiight?

First, I get to school, goto the library to do some last minute touches on my article summary for ecology.  With luck being my middle name [not really] all the printers on campus stop working due to a problem with the ID card system.  See, we have to use our school IDs to print and somehow that wasn’t working with the printers.

So, here comes the best part, I sit in the science library for a while hoping they will annouce that the printers are back up and running.  Seeing as how I only had an hour before my next class, I leave the library and start walking to Kinkos to print my crap paper.  On the way to Kinkos I realize, “hey, the printers in another library might be working by now”.  Since the other library is on the way to Kinkos I decided to go inside and check out the printers.  On the way there, I slip and fall on invisible ice (it seriously just looked like a puddle not ice).  OMG, talk about slight embarrassment, luckily it was only 8:25AM so only 2 people that I know of saw me fall.  I was also bundled up in hat, scarf, and a huge coat so hopefully my face wasn’t visible, LOL.  So, I go inside the undergraduate library and go straight for the restroom where I attempt to dry off my pants.  It actually wasnt that bad and you couldn’t even tell that they were wet.  Anyways  the printers at the undergraduate library weren’t working but the computer help desk people said they would print my paper.  So, now all was right with the world.

I then did a quick run to the ATM and then the store to but a Voltage Mountain Dew and Cherry Poptarts.  I then carefully walked to class.  I surprisingly [not] get to class early and whip out my Acer Aspire One netbook and hope online, I then began to twitter my ass off until class started and even then I was still on twitter.  I also was in the process of thinking about my term paper topic for ecology, which is due next week and it has to be 10-15 pages long…of course I’ll only do 10 pages.  After the ecology lecture I head over to my ecology lab.

We were like Bobcats stalking prey, except in our case we were stalking beans that dont move

I’m going to come right out and say it…the damn lab activity was stupid as hell.  The idea is that we are predators going after prey a calculating the amount of time it takes to catch that prey.  I believe it was called the…look I dont know but we were measuring crap.  So, we were in groups and we all had to go outside and measure out a 8 meter area.  Within that 8 meter area, we had to randomly throw beans on the ground and pick them up.  But, you can’t just pick them up and count how many you caught.  You have to pick up a bean, stand up, close your eyes, count to 5 and put the bean in the container and you have to repeat this for 5 minutes in 5 trial periods.  Not only that but let me remind you that we had to do this outside when it was slightly chilly and other students and others were walking by us looking at us like we were crazy.  Some stopped to ask what we were doing, and some just stepped all over our beans *holding bucket of beans, shaking fist*

Now, when we finished our ridiculous experiment, we all went back into the class to collect the other group’s data.  Our teacher also decided to ruin our day by handing back out papers. For an ecology teacher, this guy grades like an English teacher, matter of fact he is worse then an English teacher.  Our lab reports are supposed to be out of 10 points and he gave everyone 7/10.  Also on our article summaries, he gave 90% of the class 14/20 which is a 70%.  So, while in class me and the other students basically spent our time complaining about the teachers harsh grading.  I got 70% on my article summary and the only reason he marked on the paper was the fact that my first sentence was “awkward” which I find out he wrote the same thing on 5 other student’s paper.  One guy said our teacher was probably a mediocre student in college and taking it out on us…which I find totally believable.  After the majority of the class left, I stayed behind to figure out what I want to write my term paper on.  I decided I’m going to write about the effects of plankton biomass by planktivores…the way I wrote it here looks awkward I actually have a better way of wording it.  Anyways, I approved it with my teacher and he liked it, hopefully he wasn’t lying to me.  After that, I head home and now I’m writing this blog post about my day in which I tell you that I’m writing this blog post about my day which mentioned me writing this blog post about my day….sorry, but I like to be that annoying sometimes

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