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Clean the computers
The computer lab on the second floor of the Administration Building is the dirtiest room I’ve ever been in. On Wednesday, there were graham cracker crumbs covering my keyboard and desk. It’s an 8 a.m. class, so you know that’s there from the day before. Could we get a little maintenance in the room more often, please? It really is disgusting.
— Savannah
Batter up
The defending champion Boston Red Sox played two games against the Oakland A’s in Tokyo this week. In the long run, these games probably won’t matter but it does mean one very important thing: the Sox only have 160 games left in the season.
— T.J.
Mama Kin
My mama is making her first Moscow visit this weekend. Since I’ve been in college, we haven’t been able to do as much of what we do best — go to concerts together. This weekend we’re seeing The B-52’s. Cosmic Thing was the first album I ever knew. Listening to “Love Shack” in my mom’s 1976 Trans Am is one of my first and fondest memories. My mom is living proof you can still kick ass when you’re 50. Plus, she’s promised to buy me groceries while she’s here, which totally rocks (and rolls), too.
— Christina L.
I Hope
I woke up this morning to a couple of inches of snow on my porch. I had a fleeting thought of “maybe all the equipment was put away for the spring time and the school would declare it another snow day because they couldn’t handle the two inches.” I checked UI’s home page for the little snowflake icon, but alas, school was not cancelled and I had to turn in a paper, an assignment, give a tour and go to work. Shucks.
— Alexis
Jackpot
As graduation approaches I have been worried about where I am going to work after school. Lucky for me my brilliant fiancé just scored an amazing internship. Yeah, the pressure’s off now. If by some chance I don’t have a job when I graduate I can always rely on him. Thanks Sean!
— Ryli
The fall lease blues
Next fall seems so far away, yet I am currently being forced, like many of my friends, to think far into the future to sign leases. There is so much pressure to figure out who is going to live with whom, where and when. It’s simply too far away; I am just trying to get through the week. Shouldn’t this town run on college time by now anyway?
— Roger
Nuclear Marco Polo
The Pentagon recently ordered U.S. military branches to inventory their nuclear arsenal. The order comes after four nuclear warhead fuses were mistakenly shipped to Taiwan and six nuclear warheads were mistakenly flown over the U.S. Perhaps the scariest part of this situation is that it is understandable — I lose things all the time. Then again, the things I lose don’t tend to cause mushroom clouds. Anyway, at least we already have people trained to do this type of thing. It will be interesting to see what they can do when the weapons actually exist.
— Alec
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