Man of Science, Man of Faith

I took my calculus final bright and early this morning at 8. I’m glad it is done.  This is a Good Thing. Grades come out Wednesday. I remember the good old days when one could see their grades as they were submitted and posted to MILO. Alas, someone decided it would be a Good Idea to hold grades until students had been kicked out of the dorms and professors were two days into their summer vacations. I believe this is to keep the number of grade appeals down.

In keeping with tradition, this is the part where I do my shout-outs to the folks I’ve rolled mad and deep with.

In Cusick’s Calc II class: Patrick Shoemaker, Anna Maria Firth, Jessica Beres, Tyler Spurlock, Kristen Bobuk, Zach Burns, Greg Sowards and the rest of you too.

In chemistry, Luke Damron, you’re pretty much my one and only. Except in the lab. That was all Greg Sowards and Lauren Hays.

For Engineering Computations: Tyler, Kristen and Zach I’ve mentioned already but I’ll include Rachael Parlock, Harley Bullard, Seth Bartrig and Richard Six.

For Engineering Econ: Lauren and the other 4 people who sat close. Sorry – I didn’t catch your names. Not even after 16 weeks. But I know you are CS majors. Does that count?

To all of you, thanks for making it a good semester. I’ll see some of you next semester, I’m sure.

Long standing tradition around here has been to mention by name the people over the course of a semester with which I have worked or had significant contact. This serves mostly to keep track of when I had classes and with whom since my brain is notoriously lossy when it comes to matters of this nature.

Days of the Fall 2008 semester included Patrick Shoemaker, William O’Connell, Kenny Duthie, Tyler Spurlock, Rachel Parlock, Jessica Meadows, Bryan Adkins, Zach Burns and Seth Bartrig.

To Luke Damron, looks like we both had the same idea. Let’s hope this works.

I’d like to thank my first group in ENGR107: David Sunt, Richard Six, and Harley Bullard – it was nice working with you guys. Thanks also go to my second group which included Kristen Anderson and Julie Ball – ladies, sorry I missed the final; the car would have gone better if I’d shown up with the wheels.

To chem 217 lab partner, Ed Mondolfi, a persona from the past: it’s good to see I’m not the only one still in college; good luck man.

My ENGR241 survey party included Josh Ward and Zach Holley. I’m glad we managed to find 1.338 feet just where we left it. Also, to Lauren Keller, it’s too bad we didn’t get to keep you.

I’m sure I’ve left some folks out, I always do. Before I finish, I would also like to thank all the folks who manage to have faith in me. I couldn’t do this without their support.