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Before talking about how i’m gonna survive the end, i’m gonna plug Southwest. Southwest is awesome, Southwest is amazing. American Airlines once charged me to move my flight off of a sold out flght near Christmas to a three quarters full flight a week earlier. Southwest is letting me move to a flight 3 days earlier, that’s non stop rather than a layover in Denver. And they’re giving me 20 dollars to do it! Southwest Airlines, i salute you.

Thanksgiving has past and so now i stand looking out across 2 weeks of academic insanity. It’s less than it normally is because i’m only taking 12 hours. The difference between 4 classes and 5 is profound. Anyway, something happens to me around this time and i suddenly go from being completely unconcerned about all things academic to being real intense about getting all the points necessary to bump my GPA. Turns out that critical time was tonight. I’ve got Excel spreadsheets telling me that I actually need to do the last finance assignment and probably get a 90 on the final to get an A, but that since the final is the very last thing on the list i can safely spend more of my time trying to figure out what on earth is going on in CS 337. Luckily the same sheet tells me that by some freak accident (and an absurd curve on test 2) i actually have a 90% in the class. Management is a wash (read a B) and i just want it to end, but it’s got a bunch of useless busy work that i need to do before it can finally stop wasting my time. I shudder to think that there are some people who take that class and think “hmm i think that i would like to study these things in more depth and perhaps make it into a career”. If you are one of those people, i hope you get to apply knowledge of the Abilene paradox in your life, i really do, but if you ever tell me a story about it, i’m gonna hit you in the face.

In conclusion, here’s my life.

The Cal hat is about to make it’s return