A few days ago while I was at the Badger Herald office working, I went next door to a sandwich shop to get some dinner. After ordering, I went over to the receiving counter and noticed a water bottle with a piece of tape on it with "TUNA" written on it.

It boggled me so much that I decided to take a picture of it.

In other news, I took my last quiz in my sociological theory course today, and I’m almost done with the class. Normally, lecture would have met again this Wednesday, but because the instructor is traveling for a job interview, he canceled our last class and finished everything up today. Now, the only thing I have left to do for the class is to finish a paper by 4 PM on Friday.

While I was going through my camera today, I came across this picture that I took this past Thursday of a worksheet I got during my statistics for psychologists course.

It was a worksheet containing data that our professor gave us so we can use it during lecture to go over regression. It was data from applications submitted to medical school, and each applicant’s corresponding MCAT score, GPA, score on letters of recommendation, and score on judgment.

"The point of doing this is to predict the chances of each applicant being accepted into medical school based on the predictors. So this first applicant had an MCAT score 582, a GPA of 1.9, a recommendation letter sco … wait, a GPA of 1.9? What is this person doing applying to medical school?"

Today was my last day of Music in Performance, and I took my first of four final exams.

Music in Performance is basically a class where you go to a concert hall, listen to people perform a variety of different music, and answer five easy quiz questions to get credit for attending the performance. Then, at the end of the semester, you take a final exam that asks questions about the composers performed during the semester and their style of music and time period of activity.

A slightly annoying part about the exam was that we had to memorize the countries of origin of all the composers, which took a decent amount of effort, but fortunately, we were given the information to memorize rather than having to research it ourselves, so it wasn’t that huge of a deal.

In other news, next week is the last week of the semester and I have two exams on Tuesday and Thursday, so I’m going to go study now.

Tip of the Day: If you’re going to send an email to one specific person asking him/her a question that only (s)he can answer, use his/her direct email address rather than a mailing list that contains 73 other people.

I don’t have time to write a longer post today. My schedule sort of got scrambled around this week because a bunch of stuff was moved around and I had to do a lot of unexpected things, and my reorganization of tasks and events didn’t work out so well, so I’m a little bit behind on my work.

Tip of the Day: If you notice that two notebooks are missing and you think that you left them at home when you brought them home during Thanksgiving break, search through your room and make sure rath­er than just assuming that you know what happened and not looking for them at all.

Or else you’ll randomly open one of your drawers and realize that the missing notebooks were in there all along, and you didn’t actually even bring them home with you during Thanksgiving break in the first place.

That’s all for today; I have to go get ready to send out an all-campus advertisement email for the Badger Herald tonight, which is a terrorizing and horrible process, but is unfortunately a required part of my job.

Ever since Google+ came out, I noticed that my storage space usage in Picasa Web went down to 0. At first I thought it was a bug, but I noticed today that it wasn’t.

According to a page on Google’s help area, all pictures that are less than 2048 by 2048 pixels are stored for free. Apparently they had this before Google+ came around too; before Google+, pictures that were less than 800 by 800 pixels were stored for free. Obviously, I didn’t notice that because I don’t really upload many photos that are less than 800 pixels on the longest edge.

Now that I know this is in effect, I will start to upload files in a higher resolution. I generally upload files at 1024 pixels by 576 pixels, and I usually max out at 1600 pixels by 900 pixels at the most, but now there’s no reason why I shouldn’t upload them at 2048 pixels by 1152 pixels.

I’ll also try to link my images to their larger versions in case you have a large monitor and want to see the photo better.