I'm getting annoyed by all the people hawking T-shirts for The Game (annual football game between Yale and Harvard that mostly serves as an excuse for students to get ridiculously drunk). Seriously, we all have at least one article of clothing with "Yale" on it; what's the point of another one if all it does is insult Harvard?

I think the Harvard-bashing thing gets out of control. They seem much less concerned with insulting us. Our constant bickering makes us look like the losers with inferiority complexes. Even at Bulldog Days, I remember, the Dean of Admissions inserted a few obligatory jokes about how dumb/freaky/annoying Harvard is. Who cares!?! I'm sure a lot of people from here end up going to Boston for grad school anyways.

On Cross Campus today, when I finally lost it and told someone I didn't want to buy a shirt, the salesman looked at me, poker-face, and said, "Well Jesus isn't coming to The Game but He still bought a shirt." Right.
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If anybody reading this is in Math 115 and has Alina Marian as their teacher, they should definitely join the facebook.com group "Mathemalina" which is mainly dedicated to her adoration. There's a love sonnet on it that is copied here:

"How do we love thee, Alina Marian? Let us count the ways.

We love thee for your skip when we correctly integrate.
We love thee for plunging straight into math when you're a few minutes late.
We love thee for the way you call solutions "cute."
We love thee for the way you deftly differentiate a square root.
We love thee for the way your accent graces our ears.
We love thee for the way you shape our latent math careers.
Whenever you keep us late to teach us more, our hearts truly surge.
Oh Alina, our love is an infinite series that you have taught us to converge. "

You see? Yale students are good at both rhyming and ingratiating themselves with their teachers.
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I just finished writing a chemistry test. Upon asking classmates what they thought of it, I found that the universal opinion was that it was dead easy. I did not think so and neither did my brother.

There were so many little tricks! You were apparantly supposed to memorize the exact reaction of Al2O3 with HCl and NaOH. Yet so many people left the classroom explaining at length how much they hadn't studied and how they knew they had still aced the test. How do people do that without studying? They just happened to know, offhand, that Al2O3 can form AlNa(OH)4?

Gah.

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I really don't know how I'm doing in school, grades-wise. I always knew where I was in high school. But here, everything is curved and so predicting your grades is mostly a guessing game. The average and standard deviation on the test become really important and a 67% can somehow be parlayed into a B.

It's very confusing, and I miss having the 0-100% scale. I have no idea what my GPA is going to be this semester and it's really bugging me..........

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Perspectives on Science questions still aren't up yet........how unfair is it to give us two days to do a problem set?

I'm going to have to work hard on this one, also, because the lecture made very little sense to me.

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There's a facebook profile for Rory Gilmore (a fictional character on the WB TV show Gilmore Girls who attends Yale University). Anyways, students from all over the nation have facebooked her and left droves of comments on her wall....apparantly under the delusion that she exists and actually goes to Yale.

Posts range from the stupidly effusive:

"Rory i am so happy you and your mom got back together....now her and luke can get married!!!!"

to the somewhat disconcerting:

"I wish Luke was my DAddy!!!!"

Now, after every episode, crazy people visit her wall and give her advice. I hope people don't actually think she exists.

Although, Iwas going to personally welcome her back to Yale (she left for a little while and returned as of yesterday's episode).