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I want to go skiing, or snowboarding. Or cross country skiing.

Maybe next year I'll finally be able to afford it.

Hah. Hahaha.. We've had less than 2 nights of frost tvis winter.

God damn, I hate this electronic essay **** so. damn. much!

Spent three hours slaving away on an assignment at the college, but then I couldn't connect to the local wi-fi. By the time I got on, I was 4 minutes late for my hand-in, and it had been closed. My printing access card also doesn't work, but no tech service is open now, so I have no way of printing out a physical copy of my work.

I have to deliver both a physical and an electronic copy to pass this assignment. Piece of **** system run by 50-year-old IT-impaired people.

Aaaaaaaand sweep #4 for the Dutch speed skaters! Time to celebrate, SKÃ…L!

It has only happened twice in the history of the Olympics that the US went home without speed skating medals. Speed skating is also America's most successful winter sport.

And really, we can't be to blame for you of all countries not going along in the wonderfully capitalistic system of commercial teams instead of a national team. You goddarn dirty commies!

Honestly though, it sucks to see the Americans fail. I love their attitude of all or nothing races.

One big *** positive is Lehman on the 10k though, he's only 17 and good enough to compete in a distance he normally wouldn't even race for another 2 years. Very promising for the future.

Gwt a snowmobile, suvker.

I left the lecture early today. After the aforementioned farce of dealing with ****** electronic delivery systems, I ended up spending my dinner break on waiting for someone to return to the library help desk so I could borrow their printer. And that was after we spent 90 minutes analyzing a poem that apparently proves the Pythagorean theorem. 90 ******* minutes I won't ever get back.

No way I was going to stick around for the last three hours of the lecture.

Pretend you're Dutch and get drunk to celebrste the greatest collective achievement innge history of thw winter olympics. That aughta solve yer problems. That or havong sex with a hot chick.

No more or less disturbing than usual.

I'd get drunk, but I'm not really feeling it. I haven't missed an assignment since, I don't know, 8th grade. It bothers me way more than it should, because the worst thing that could happen is that I'll get an extra assignment. Hopefully, since I did manage to hand in a physical copy, I'll pass it, anyway.

I could make a case about unstable wi-fi and assignment hand-ins in the vacation weeks, not to mention the requirement to hand in a physical AND digital copy, which is downright retarded, but I'd risk getting on my professor's bad side, and that's not how you get good grades.

My plan for this course is to do all the assignments with minimal effort and time invested in it, because based on previous experiences, the vast majority of what they teach us at college is theoretical nonsense that in no way improves my performance as a teacher. Sure, I know how to prove the Pythagorean theorem now, but how the @#%^ does that help me when I'm in a classroom full of young teenagers yelling "WE WANT TO EAT NOOOOOW!" because they've got the munchies? I'm not a college professor, I teach kids. That's like teaching socially awkward morons with attention deficit disorders. It's not like I'll whip out a poem and spend 90 minutes proving a theorem at any point in my lessons. I'd have ten clinically brain-dead teenagers at the end of it.

Sometimes I wish the professors at the teacher's college would go out into the real world and see that life in a classroom isn't what it was 40 years ago.

Also, the assignment contained a step-by-step guide for 20 exercises in a geometry program. It was 40 @#%^ing pages long, because the guide contained points like:

"Left-click <icon1>."
"Left-click anywhere on the screen."
"Left-click <icon2>."
"Left-click point A."
"Drag the cursor, while holding down left-click, to point B."
"Click point B."
"Drag the cursor, while holding down left-click, to point C."

Oh, my @#%^ing god. At one point there was a three-page "How to draw a pentagram within a pentagon" instruction. Took me three hours to do all 20 exercises, because I had to read walls of text before each. It could have just said "Draw a damn pentagon and then draw diagonals within it" instead of that crap.

Yes, I'm mad, bro.

Edited, Feb 18th 2014 10:15pm by Mazra

I'll take the e-hug and pass on the *******.

I found a sixpack under my bed. Time to get drunk on beer of very questionable fermentation.