Journal Entry

Friday, August 25, 2000

Lesson #1 if you ever become a landscape designer for a college campus: Don't make pathways right away. Let the kids walk in the dirt. See where the patterns form. THEN pave the walkways. If you don't do it this way, you'll end up like Cornell, where you'll have to rip up your old, unused pathways, and repave them in the areas where the grass has died.

These days on Cornell, the new pathways take you in a straight line. Even the crosswalks are diagonally painted just so kids don't have to go out of their way.

Today was my first 8am class. Math 191. Not too bad. I'll be okay with the class with my vague calculus background. Like Andrew, my mind was diminished by statistics. However, the experience I do have should carry me through.

Then came chemistry. That class will be the easist class of all four years. Half of the class has never even seen chemistry since sophomore year in high school. The lab experiments sound like the ones we did in high school chem class.

I had no choice but to do my laundry today. So I went down to the basement with Gamelin to start the laundry. I was on washer #7. Everything was going fine until about 5 minutes into the cycle when I find this small "out of order" slip filled out by another student that says "uses too much water." Well, what's that supposed to mean? I had yet to find out.

So with only 15 minutes left in the cycle (of 35 minutes) our two washing machines start to differ in the amount of time left. Then Gamelin's finishes and mine has 8 minutes remaining. So he starts his in the dryer. Then, a whole TWENTY minutes later, my 8 minutes left finally makes it to zero and mine finishes.

Then I go to pull my clothes out. They're dripping. Soaked. My spin cycle was doing everything except spinning. My clothes were hosed.

Creating a trail of water as I went, I drug everything into the dryer, and went to eat. I came back, and they were still soaked. But were warm instead of cold. So I set them for another hour. And at this moment, I am now going down to check them again. Goodness.

Aaron

Dryer update. It's now 9:00pm ET and I'm in my room, clothes are dry, folded and sitting on my bed. I've applied for a laundry plan credit for my excess charges to use the dryer. It took almost 3 hours to dry the clothes. Never use washer #7.