presentation, cream off the top of my brain...

well, as opposed to my last entry, this one will probably be pretty short.

as far as kass and my presentation goes, i think everything went fairly well, and we were able to spark some conversation, although perhaps we could have done a little bit better... it's hard at 10 am, i guess. i'm glad we got to watch some videos and play "pass the beast" (which i hope makes it into a friday meeting at some point), and i'm glad no one got visibly annoyed with my perhaps extended metaphor with the dylan video. i did what i could to draw parallels between order out of chaos and musical examples, but everyone responds to different things in different ways. hope it made some sense to you guys.

other things floating around:

helped a guy from auburn hills with a resume today...this guys drove all the way to the writing center (that's over an hour, even if you drive as fast as i do) in east lansing to get advice on his resume... i think that says a lot about how much people value us here....it really surprised me, in a very nice way.

here's something i can rant on for a second: i'm usually pretty good at staying neutral and objectively looking at people's arguments in their paper from a logical perspective and not let my own thoughts interfere. however, on wednesday, this guy came in with 17 page paper about how women don't like men who pay attention to them. i realize the rules of attraction often determine that you like what you can't have, but this guy took it way to far, and basically wrote every woman like they had exactly the same thought process when it came to men, and, furthermore, implied that women only liked manly, muscled, intellectually lacking men. i thought this was stupid and ridiculous, to treat every person like they were the same, and it was slightly offensive to me as a person in general, but i held it in and tried to work with him. i hope his professor is as objective as i am.

see y'all monday.

m