Monday

This morning I got off the Max at PSU and headed towards my 9am behavioral econ class. As I'm walking I see two fellow classmates walking towards me. No class today. The prof was sick. Now I have time to go print copies of the next four papers for this class. . Fortunately, the current crop of research papers are quite a bit shorter than most of the previous ones we read. I just found out that each student gets a 500 page paper allowance for use at the various computer/printing labs around campus. And this early, there was hardly anyone in the main floor computer lab at Millar Library, right across the park blocks from my next class. Fantastic! I already went through one ink cartridge on my housemates' printer. This is a lot easier, but I have to plan ahead a little. It's not really enough pages though, at least for this term. If I had printed everything I've needed to so far, I'd already be 300+ pages into my allowance. I think I printed about 75 pages today.

Then, there was the mid-term for my econ of green power class. I don't think I did well. I'm really not doing well with the way the questions are structured on the homework and exams. There was a question early on that I struggled with and am confident I got wrong. Getting this correct multiple answers was key to a large part of the rest of the test. Get that one wrong and most of the following questions were likely to be wrong. It seemed like a sadistic way to show students how stupid they are, at least to the professor. A somewhat related fact - one of our required texts was written by the professor. Hmm. I'm dreading seeing my grade. It's likely to be one of the worst midterm results I've had yet. The take home essay questions we got after completing our exam are a lot different. I have no issue with them. I'll do just fine on those.

No one broke into my car last week! My free parking is probably temporary and definitely "semi-legal", but still free right now! My knee pain has greatly diminished! I'm still learning new things! It was windy, but warm and sunny! I'm poor, but I really have very few legitimate reasons to complain. Onward! Time to study!