Ben Stiller and irritation

[jethrien]

Ben Stiller was originally supposed to be our Class Day speaker. But he couldn't make the date and ended up offering to come a different day. So we ended up with him doing a question and answer session kind of thing this evening with just the senior class. He seems like a really cool guy. Pretty funny, as you'd expect. His wife was with him - she's six months pregnant. They were really cute together, actually. People made them explain how they met and how he proposed. He also seemed genuinely touched by being made an honorary member of the class and getting a blazer and everything. It was cool.

But that brings me to my incredible irritation at our class officers. Who, in their infinite wisdom, decided to make this the kickoff event of Senior Week. While a bunch of us aren't done our theses yet. Of course, they're all humanities majors, for the most part, and it's mostly science and engineering types whose theses are at the later due dates, and after all, who cares about the nerds? Yeah, so I can't go to any of the senior week events. 'Cause I'm writing. Grrrr. I shake my fist in helpless rage at the officers of our class.

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Comments

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Hey, I had to sit by while my woody woo major friends went on four-day weekend trips to Atlantic City. It is the burden of the nerds. We bear it with pride.

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

Did we have big events for senior week? I have absolutely no recollection of them. I must have been catching up on video games or something. (Actually, if it was around this time, then I'd have been busy with the 'Hazards jam.)

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

I have no recollection either. I was living in Frick at that point, I think. I wasn't even going to Charter for meals anymore, just buying gummi worms from the U2 store at 1:59AM.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

I'm eating Nutella and peanut butter out of the jar with a spoon. Does that count?

I don't seem to be working as incredibly hard on this as many people. This worries me slightly. I mean, I'm working, but not to the all-consuming point that others are...

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Don't worry, that just means you plan ahead. Hey, I finished my thesis a week early then pointed and laughed at Jen LaB as she stayed up for 72 hours straight writing hers.

[edgehopper.livejournal.com]

1: You planned ahead, and
2: You're doing a 1 semester project. Half the writing.
3: It's an engineering project, so you've already done the hard work; the writing is easier.

If you want to be honest with yourself, compare your workload to a Physics JP, not to a humanities thesis. Dan Recht doesn't seem to be suffering from immense work pain at the moment either.

And you know well enough by now to never compare your workload to Spring's, if that's what you're doing :)