Geekin' out on drinking night

Seriously, who wants to go out drinking when they really could be up all night doing pen tests with their roommate?

anti-science

http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/22048474.html

Gov. Bobby Jindal has signed the legislation that renewed the debate in Louisiana over the role of religion in the classroom.

Jindal signed Senate Bill 733 by Ben Nevers of Bogalusa, which supporters say is designed to open up "critical thinking" about scientific topics such as evolution, cloning and global warming. Opponents say the bill is really a veiled attempt to introduce religious views about man's creation into public school science classes.

The Legislature's Web site says the bill was signed earlier this week.

The bill says teachers must stick to approved science text books, but can supplement those books with other materials about scientific topics.

Grrrrreeat. Let's supplement real science with a bunch of religious unscientific antiscience. USA! USA! USA! Welcome to the new dark ages?

CSU Woes

So i finally got to register for classes for this coming fall semester. I was pretty excited to be taking some upper division engineering courses, it felt like the move up here was going pretty flawless.

Then, as it turns out, on registration day i learn that the second semester of calc based physics is totally full along with third semester calc. They filled up before i was even allowed to register. WTF.

I've done pretty much all that i could be expected to do. I've contacted the professors that teach the classes i want and asked them to place me on a wait list. I've contacted the department chairs asking if there will be any additional classes added because everything filled up so quickly. I got a unanimous response from the dept chairs saying that budget cuts are keeping them from offering any more classes and the professors said 'good luck' but they worded it a little more polite then that.

So now i'm sitting on my ass enrolled in 9 units that i really don't want to be taking and footing a bill of $2,004 for this inconvenience. I don't want to think about the ass pain i'll be going through trying to expedite my proof of enrollment with the VA once i get into the classes i need so i can become a full time student.

I guess all i can do now is wait for time to pass and hopefully people to drop classes. And really, really hope that the VA doesn't fail me a second time on late payments because come August i'm going to be down to my last bit of cash.