Exam Fairness Fail

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I had an exam for my criminal justice class today. I’m generally much better at the essay portion than at the multiple choice, and they were weighted equally, so I decided to focus more on the essay so I could get a near-perfect score on it to make up for the multiple choice that I would most likely do poorly on. I quickly went through the multiple choice, then started on my essay.

For whatever reason, about five minutes after I noticed that someone had written “Time Remaining: 15 min” on the chalkboard, my professor’s alarm went off and he told everyone to stop. Of course, I was seated in the front, and the professor happened to be standing right next to me, looking at me, so I stopped without getting a chance to check through my multiple choice answers.

As I got up to turn my exam in, there were people still frantically writing, and some were even writing while they were standing in line to turn in their exams.

What I learned from this? If you want a fair shot at the curve, sit in an arbitrary seat in the middle of the lecture hall so you can get five extra minutes like everyone else, as opposed to sitting on the side so you have to stop immediately when time is up because your professor is right next to you.

 

Tip of the Day

If you’re in lecture and you notice a loose strand of hair on your paper, don’t grab at it or try to brush it off without first making sure that it is in fact a loose strand of hair.

Or else you’ll end up like me and end up noticing that this “loose hair” is still attached to the girl sitting in front of you.

 

Picture of the Day

Epic Grease Fail

Epic Grease Fail

I think this is an epic using the proper amount of grease on a pizza fail.

It looks bad now, but it’s nothing compared to what it was like as I was eating the pizza. As I lifted up each slice, there was a thick glossy layer of grease on the bottom of both the pizza and on the box.

This is what it looked like after I ate 3/4 of the pizza, let it sit (and dry) for a few hours, then came back and finished the remaining two slices.

If you look over at the top-right corner of the photo, you’ll notice that that’s where the lid of the box is, and it’s also covered in grease – that’s where I tried to wipe off the excess grease from the pizza slices.

 

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Topic #80: What non-exercise activity do you wish would keep you fit?

The answer to this one is easy – the non-exercise activity that I wish I would keep me fit is typing. Although some people addicted to using their computers may consider typing to already be an exercise so they have an excuse not to leave their desk, I don’t think moving your fingers and using the muscles in your forearms is enough physical activity to be considered exercise.

However, if I were to choose an activity that would be considered exercise that I do a lot, typing would be the best candidate. Because I’m an extremely fast typer (extremely fast being defined as faster than any other human being I’ve met in person before), typing takes more energy from me than it would from pretty much anyone else (unless there’s someone that has a unique typing style of lifting their fingers several feet into the air before hitting the keys). In addition, the amount of time I spend typing is still massive, even though I save tons of time by being a fast typer.

Thus, I think that if I got a full-body exercise from everything that I typed, I would essentially be one of the most fit people alive. Unfortunately, if this was the case, I would probably cut down on other outdoor activity that is considered exercise, though. For example, instead of walking to class, I would probably find a bus that takes me as close as possible to the building containing my lecture. As a result, I would probably not receive enough sunlight intake and get a shortage of Vitamin D and overall not become healthy.

But of course, that could easily be solved by doing some of my typing work outside.

 

So Far in 2011…

Number of Taco Bell tacos eaten: 21

Number of times I did my own laundry: 2

 

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Monetary Happiness

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The Daily Shoot Assignment of the Day

#DS496:

Today, let’s illustrate the emotion of being happy. Make a photograph that represents happiness to you.

Can Money Buy Happiness?

Can Money Buy Happiness?

 

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Topic #76: How do you find your muse? When you sit down to blog, or have a creative project of any kind you need to work on, how do you get yourself motivated to do it? What are your rituals or habits?

I actually have no problem motivating myself to blog or do a creative project when I get started on it; the problem I usually have is to stop doing other mindless activities (like watching YouTube videos made by random people) so I can actually get started on doing something productive.

Generally, when I encounter this problem and notice that I’ve spent a lot of time doing something unproductive, I usually set a specific time for when I’m going to move on to something productive, and start wrapping up my mindless activity. Another helpful thing to do is to remember how much I actually enjoy writing once I get started on it and try to get myself to look forward to it.

Once I start blogging, I usually get immersed in my thoughts and have no problem thinking of things to write. As long as I’m fully rested and alert, I can essentially write about any topic (even topics about which I have no background knowledge) because I tend to make random and intruging connections with topic prompts and past experiences that are so unexpected that they’re funny.

 

So Far in 2011…

Number of Taco Bell tacos eaten: 21

Number of times I did my own laundry: 2

 

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I Hate Road Trips

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Topic #52: Describe the best road trip you’ve ever taken. If you’re feeling all glass half empty, the worst road trip. Or describe a road trip you’d like to take and why you want to take it.

This question is difficult to answer seeing as I don’t really like road trips in the first place. I hate being in a car for an extended period of time, especially because I get dizzy and can’t really do anything except talk. Even then, I usually don’t talk much in the car because I’m on the verge of getting carsick and my brain feels like it’s going to implode.

It’s also difficult to answer because I haven’t really been on many road trips in the first place. I’m pretty sure I’ve driven extended periods of time to far-away places before, but I don’t really recall them as memorable road trips that fit the definition of what a road trip actually is.

If I had to pick the worst road trip out of my limited choices, I would pick any road trip during which I got sick or threw up (which is most likely all of them).

There aren’t any road trips that I would like to take because I generally avoid traveling via car as much as possible. I have a tendancy to get sick even during short trips, and I think I’ve been so psycho­logically terrorized by how sick I get in a car that I even start getting slightly dizzy merely by sitting in the car and not even going anywhere. My dad says that a good way to avoid getting carsick is to be the driver rather than the passenger, but that doesn’t really work for me either.

 

Picture of the Day

Stupid Desk Lamp

Stupid Desk Lamp

My desk lamp keeps flickering and it’s driving me insane.

I tried punching it a few times but I think that only made it worse…

UPDATE: To all of you asking or wondering, no, there’s nothing wrong with the electricity in my apartment, it’s just the light bulb that randomly decided to start malfunctioning.

UPDATE 2: I filed a work order with my apartment’s front desk, and someone from the maintenance team came in to replace the light bulb, and it’s working fine now.

 

The Daily Shoot Assignment of the Day

#DS472: What kind of other art do you appreciate? Make a photograph that celebrates it today.

Don’t Forget Your #2 Pencil

 

So Far in 2011…

Number of Taco Bell tacos eaten: 18

Number of times I did my own laundry: 1

 

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A Few Changes to my Blog

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I’ve been getting some complaints lately about how people aren’t satisfied with my blog. They claim that my blog used to be interesting and would serve as an insight to my (supposedly) interesting life, but now it’s become boring. The culprit here appears to be my attempt at blogging everyday in 2011 for Word­Press’ Post a Day, and using their prompts to fill up some days of blogging.

I noticed that the prompts were becoming slightly unintriguing and weren’t prompting me to be as textually exciting as I would normally be when I write my own blog posts with photos that I take during my day.

However, I already participated in Post a Day for all of January and February, and I don’t want to stop now. I want to find out if I’m able to do this for the rest of the year like I was originally anticipating.

As a result, I decided that I’m going to continue blogging daily, but make some changes as requested. Instead of posting all my blog entries the same, I’m going to color-code the dates on the calendar index now.

The red entries (like some of the earlier blog posts from Five Minutes in My Head) are the ones that will be particularly worth reading. The regular gray entries will be normal entries that I post normally on a regular basis. The light gray entries will be days when I simply answer a Daily Post prompt and don’t add anything else into the post.

By using this color-coding system, you’ll be able to know which blog posts will be considered “boring” and which ones are “interesting.”

 

The Daily Shoot Assignment of the Day

#DS471: Find a repeating pattern today and make a photograph of it.

Repeating Pattern

 

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Topic #50: What would you do with a million dollars, tax free?

Unlike most of you humans out there, I’m not much of a materialistic person, so no, I would not go on a massive shopping spree buying everything that I can get my hands on.

Being more of a minimalistic person, I would probably spend the money on things that I necessarily have to spend on (either now or in the future). For example, I would pay off all the loans I have for college, pay my rent for the remaining duration of my contract, pay off any mortgages or loans that my parents might have, and pay off any debts in general that we might have.

Then, I would probably keep the rest in four different banks (because each bank is only ensured $250,000 by the FDIC), and keep it there for future spending. Being a student at university, I’m going to have to end up spending a lot more within the next several years, both to finish my undergraduate studies and to go to graduate school. As a result, a million dollars isn’t exactly as much as it sounds like, and it will be extremely useful to keep it handy so I don’t have to be burdened with student loan debts after I finish all my studies and enter the work force.

 

So Far in 2011…

Number of Taco Bell tacos eaten: 18

Number of times I did my own laundry: 1

 

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Changes Coming Up

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I have a homework assignment due for computer science later today, and I’m probably going to spend the rest of the night catching up on my reading for my psychology and philosophy exams coming up later this coming week, so I’m doing my blog post early today with one photo.

I’ve been getting some complaints about how my blog is slowly becoming unworthy of being read, so I’m going to be addressing that in tomorrow’s blog post. The resolution isn’t drastic, and it will resemble something I’ve done in the past, but it should still satisfy the people who are disappointed in me for writing boring blog posts.

 

The Daily Shoot Assignment of the Day

#DS470: Make a photograph illustrating a sound that catches your ear today.

Yamaha Guitar

 

So Far in 2011…

Number of Taco Bell tacos eaten: 18

Number of times I did my own laundry: 1

 

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Too Short for a Title

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Today’s Saturday, I have an exam coming up this week, and I have another exam coming up next week, so I have to put my weekend to good use. I only have one photo for today, but the Dell repair technician is scheduled to come fix my laptop agian tomorrow, so I’ll hopefully have something more interesting tomorrow.

 

The Daily Shoot Assignment of the Day

#DS468: Make a photograph that illustrates the idea of connection.

USB Connection

 

So Far in 2011…

Number of Taco Bell tacos eaten: 18

Number of times I did my own laundry: 1

 

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