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Spring 2004 is finally over! I think this is the first time I've ever really looked forward to the school year ending, though in this case it's just the work load that I'm happy to see go. This has been by far the most difficult, stressful, and
just incredibly busy semester I've had yet. For the first time college got hard, not to say that it was ever easy, but this semester
was the first time I ever actually really struggled in some classes, and where I had to spend a vast majority of my time doing homework
and studying. A lot of that though is due to my graduate classes,
and especially building Sbob. I also think I bombed my first final (Electronic Circuits), but I think everyone else in the class did as well, so
hopefully it'll be ok. But now that I've finished my last test (on the last possible testing date of exam week none-the-less)
I can finally relax. At least until I start my summer internship in two weeks in Huntsville, AL. And I should probably
take the GRE too before I go, so I can start emailing and applying to grad schools and try to figure out where I'll spend another year and a
half of my life.
On the Internet, George can say anything. And because it's on the Internet,
it must be true! (tm)
Speaking of Bush, Salon had an excellent excerpt from a book called Dark Victory that lays out the problems with the war in
Iraq and the harmful consequences that the war has and will cause. If you don't have a subscription you'll have to view an
ad to read it, but it is well worth it. I have always been against the Iraq war because I never saw it as neccasary, and
if it were trully about freeing the people of Iraq, there are MANY other nations with people under dictatorship and we don't
seem to be in too much of a hurry to go liberate them. Plus the original motivation for this war was over WMD's, which still
haven't been found, nor any evidence of recent WMD programs. But the general public still doesn't quite grasp this, which is why
so many people when polled believe that Iraq and the al-Quida worked together, and that WMD's have been found, when neither are
true. It'll be interesting to see what history books in a decade or two will have to say about Bush's war.
In lighter topics, I played basketball for the first time in over a year today, while also visiting UF's huge
student recreation center for the first time
as well. Which being I've been here 3 years, it's a little over due. Anyways, it's really nice, although I hurt myself playing volleyball
thanks to me and other guy colliding in midair over a ball and me landing on my elbow.
One more day in the dorms. And then I'm out of them forever. It's a sad day.
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