DarthTofu

So, uh, yeah, this is the summer after my Junior year, and I'm looking at colleges right now. I'm probably going to do a few visits soon, but I figured I might as well ask a group of (mostly) college grads: What questions do you wish you'd asked on the tours when you were visiting campuses? I'm visiting Georgia Tech, Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, and Rochest Institute of Technology in the next few weeks, and while I'm going to work on a few things I want to hear about, there's no substitute for people who have already done the college search... and borked it up. Tex is exempt from answering this, seeing as there were no colleges back in 3 BC when he turned eighteen.

Thanks. I had a bipolar fourth... Yeah, I'll not clog this thread up with the details of it. Did anyone else get all of that stuff on YouTube in German? That's pretty sweet, if you ask me. I didn't know YouTube had versions for different languages. Seeing as I'm from "Zimbabwe" shouldn't my page be in Africans?

Maybe not on Mars, but I'll bet there's totally other intelligent life out there in the universe! I know a couple of creationists who try to argue that God only made man intelligent life, and the odds of us being able to live on this planet are terrible, and yadda yadda yadda, but that's all a load of crap. We adapt to the environment; the environment doesn't adapt to us unless we start forcing it to adapt (IE terraforming and the like). Mars might hold some tiny, single-celled organisms, and I'll bet some other planet out there holds some form of life.

I saw Hancock today. It wasn't bad; not exactly the world's most sensible plot, but it's pretty good in to see in theaters. When you start questioning stuff you'll find that you poke holes in it left, right, front, and center, but that's okay, I guess; I enjoyed it while I was in the theater. Lot o' good laughs in there, and lots of great digital effects.

Rock on, Mad! That's fantastic!

Not really. Unless you're tremendously into politics, you won't enjoy it. And yes, the lectures were very boring. We managed to put together a montage of sleeping people for the TV part of the press corps, and a series of still images that were captured by both professional and amateur photographers in the paper. The one featuring the back of my head is actually a posed picture- I don't think I ever managed to fall asleep while I was in the Capitol... though not for lack of trying.

My condolences, mate. If he was anything like you, I'm sure he was a good guy who didn't deserve to be torn from the world so soon. I'm sorry.

Most of the beginning of The Force Unleashed revealed. My, but that Next Gen stuff looks pretty.

This officially beats the Delorian... Dilorean. Dalorian. Dalorien. The car in Back to the Future.

Tell me how to get it out of the game files and upload it and I'll put it up for you. I don't know how, though. But I do have the game. Both games, in fact. The first Jedi Knight is rather a pain to beat without cheats. Lots of fun with 'em, though.

Is it an iMac? I'm on one of those right now. The thing is seriously growing on me.

lol- that was pretty great. Gotta love how he mentioned Florida history in there, too! Unfortunately there were no actual girls with big boobs (or girls, period) to look at during those lectures. Though they did play this on a regular basis in a highly successful effort to keep us awake. You'd be amazed how effective that is in a room full of over five hundred everything-deprived teenage guys. Edit: Someone uploaded what I believe to be simultaneously the best and worst bill passed by the Senate. I give you: Senate Bill 462 (passed unanimously) Sponsors:Andrew Phillips, James Crater, PJ Hobson, Brandon Tabor, Kameron Wright and The Entire Senate A Bill To Be Entitled AN ACT TO: increase the efficiency of the legislative branch Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: Section 1. A legislative body has the right to obliterate, annihilate, eliminate, and/or obliterate any obsolete hindering agent. Section 2. Said obsolete hindering agent shall be defined as the House of Representatives Section 3. All Representing House of Representatives representatives woh represent in the representative House of Representatives shall no longer represent as representatives in said House of Representatives Section 4. Section 5 is false Section 5. Section 4 is true Section 6. If a unanimous decision is not reached, the Speaker shall not retain his position. Additionally , due to the spectacular, nay, godlike efficiency of the superior legislative body, the have no longer allotted time for restroom breaks; therefore, the Speaker of the House will now be responsible for "Senatorial fecal matter disposal." Section 7. There shall be no section 8 in this bill. Section 9. This bill shall be enforced by Girl Scout Troop 114 from Kennebunkport, Nebraska Section 9 3/4. That was a Harry Potter joke Section 10. Yes this really is bill number 462. We are just that efficient. Section 11. If i failed to read this out LOUD LOUd LOud Loud loud, then I'm a sissy girl. Additionally, you will address me as Sally Section 12. The fact that I, reading clerk of the house, am actually reading this, proves our inefficiency. Damn, those Senate guys were correct. Section 13. If a man in Scuba gear dies in the forest, is he a member of the House of Representatives? Think about it...cuz we haven't Section 14. I'm Aaron Larsh???

I was disappointed- I missed the ****ing game because my friend didn't get ESPN2 while I was hanging out at his place. So, yeah- congrats to Spain. Maybe next year, Germany, eh?

Not the world's most favorable one. I was part of the Capitol State Press Corp; fancy way of saying I worked on the newspaper. I got both the @$$ end of the deal and the best deal; I didn't have to do as much work as some folks, but I didn't get to do nearly as much as they did, either. Like everyone else, I sat through a bunch of tremendously dull classes and tried to stay awake, but failed to on several occasions. Part of my Press Corps duties meant skipping out on State-level party conventions to work on the paper, and also entailed staying up later than most people, usually until around one in the morning. Thus I had a legitimate excuse to be tired. I worked on the paper a lot, and wound up moderating the debate between our gubernatorial candidates. I gained a lot of popularity by essentially saying, "Thank you, candidates. Neither of you answered the previous question; please go ahead and actually answer it this time."It had to do with State testing and the No Child Left Behind act. That was pretty much the high point of my time there. Got to visit the Phallic Capitol of Florida, visit the House and Senate chamber, check out the Press Box,etc.

My ****ing computer is a Mac... *Wanders off muttering* I'd heard the Gary Jules version of Mad World- I must say, I like it a lot better than the other. It just seems to flow better. Then again, I generally like the first version of a song that I hear.

Spain vs. Germany- I found out that would be the case while I was at the Capitol of Florida. Looks like it's all set to be a good match. I'm supporting Germany; admittedly, I wanted Russia for the finals as well, but Spain just plain played better and creamed the Russians. So, yeah, I want Germany to win in the end- where lies everyone else's allegiance? (Eagle need not answer)

Aaaaaaaaaaaaand... I'm off. Try to keep it together without me, won't you? I'll bring back links, and point out which articles I wrote in the paper... or else point out the article that says, "This kid got kicked out of the program for inappropriate behavior with the local cheerleaders," either or.

Doesn't seem like too much of a "slaughter" right now... I like soccer, I just don't like organized sports... if that makes sense. It means that, if I'm with people that like soccer, I like it more, but if I'm on my own, I could really care less. It's a social chameleon thing, I guess.

Thanks, guys. I leave in just about twelve hours from the time of posting. Don't you dare touch my play lunch, Krytos! If my brownie is gone when I come back, I'll know who to blame! I'm not exactly sure what to call it either. It's a program, I guess- that's what the American Legion (a bunch of fat, retired military guys with massive beards) calls it. It should be interesting; I've officially decided that I'm going to give my college options the middle finger and go into the media "branch." I don't have to worry about elections as much; instead I write articles in a paper, skew the facts a little bit so that my opinions are the ones that get published, possibly appear on daily television broadcasts, and hopefully distort the facts enough that ultimately I'm in control of everything. In short: I intend to make Tim Russert start rolling in his grave.

I'm taking off. Not right now, but for a little while. Expect no posts from the awesomeness that is Tofu for a good solid week starting Sunday. I know it's painful, but if you all band together, I'm sure you can pull through it. Be strong! Okay, yeah, I know I'm not getting any reactions close to that. I'll be off at the Boys State program for the week. I essentially get to play master editor of a fake State... hopefully. With any luck the kids involved will be primarily incompetent, and I can rise above them with ease. If not, I may have some rather menial labor to perform. That said: Hasta luego, ciao, arrivoderche (sp?), goodbye, goodbye in German, and May the Wind be Always at Your Back.

I can vouch for Rob- if you only see one movie this summer.... well, actually, I'd vote you make that Dark Knight. But if you only see one movie that's out now, Get Smart is your movie. It's gut-busting funny, full of references to the original series, and packed with an all-star cast. Definitely the best thing since sliced bread.

Way to go, Germany! Portugal got clobbered! Well, at least they were being clobbered while I was watching; it was three-one, Germany up when I left... Did anything ever change?

Ugh- those graphics look like pure and total crap. It's 2008, guys. You're on a next-gen console. Those look like the graphics on The Phantom Menace: The Video Game. That came out in 1999. ... Okay, so mostly that's just me being angry because I don't own a ****ing Wii.

Thanks for the help, guys. Fortunately the SUPER program worked! I now have Young Frankenstein on my iPod Nano! w00t!