The Finite

Wow, I forgot I had a blog. I blog that I obviously liked blogging on. I guess I didn’t think you guys didn’t want to hear about my daily life. When I wasn’t making sandwich art in the sandwich mine, I was studying or on my bicycle.

I have developed a process to studying. It goes like this:

1. I look at my printout of the lecture slides for a while, occasionally circling something.
2. I come across an inconsistency or a particularly prickly learning objective. I begin to scowl.
3. I grab my paper in one hand and point at it with the other and start yelling, “Screw you, old man! Screw you right in the beard!” referring of course to a professor.
4. Repeat.

So, that’s a lot of my life right there. That and reddit. All of this is bad news.

1. Thou shalt not use dark backgrounds
2. Thou shalt use dark non-Comic Sans fonts.
3. Thou shalt not use large font on text-only slides yet include diagrams and pictures with tiny text and captions.
4. Thou shalt not force us to print three slides to a page with space for notes (which we don’t even use because we take notes on the picture of the slide anyway.)
5. Thou shalt not give us a 2-slide-per-page PDF that forces us to print out notes with lots of white space.
6. Thou shalt upload notes a week prior to lecture.
7. Thou shalt give lecture objectives before the lecture commences.
8. When one sends to notes to the copy maker, thou shalt be sure that they do not omit pages nor misplace large tracts of pages.
9. Thou shalt not include redundant slides in the printed handouts that are in your presentation “just to make a point”.
10. Thou shalt not include graphics that depend on color for readability.