For those of you seniors that have relied on your transcript to tell you if you passed a course, I must warn you that you may be in serious trouble. My scary story comes a bit belated, as Halloween is now nearly three weeks past, but I warn those of the faint of heart, my tale is a gruesome one indeed.
While I am one of the largest haters of any holiday, there are the few holidays I can get behind, and Thanksgiving tops them all. I think there is no purer way to celebrate than to feast until you throw up. It is a time for family and friends to sit down, eat, drink and be merry.
Of course, no one ever consumes alcohol in the freshmen dorms. It's not like when I walked down to shower the other Friday morning I was greeted with a pleasant spew of vibrant curse words from one of our janitors. I would be pretty upset too if I had to clean approximately 20 beer bottles from the toilets in the Hayden bathroom, after having to clean up an equal amount of beer bottles from the Hayden showers on the previous few Friday mornings.
You know what really grinds my gears? When those delivery restaurants slip the menus under your door and litter your foyer with piles of garbage. There is nothing more frustrating than walking into your building, especially when it is raining, and nearly falling from the amount of menus at your doorstep.
One of the memories that I believe will follow me for the rest of my engineering career is an event that happened during a past co-op. My senior engineer asked me to do a basic thermal analysis and, being a diligent mechanical engineer, I scratched them out and brought them to his desk.
President Barack Obama departed Thursday, November 12 on a seven-day trip to Asia, mainly traveling to key destinations such as Japan, China and South Korea. Regarding the purpose of this trip, Obama said, "One of my most important tasks is to continue to strengthen the relationship between the United States and Asia.
If I believed in God, I would thank Him for blessing us with Richard Dawkins. The British biologist has become renowned lately for denouncing religion, most recently in his 2006 best-seller "The God Delusion." But I prefer his explanations and celebrations of "eating, growing, rotting, swimming, walking, flying, burrowing, stalking, chasing, fleeing, outpacing, outwitting" creatures, as he describes them in his latest best-seller, "The Greatest Show on Earth.