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Past. Present. Future

Thursday, November 23, 2006

(thinking of titles to fill this space is getting quite tiresome.)

all written papers down. one more art paper to go. then...bliss.

just starting my compilation of alvin ong’s greatest hits. it is a package of 10 sides of drawing block packed wif drawings, paintings n writings dat r made to look chim. n all of them have 2 b, i quote mr lee, top class. so. its the usual menu. some paintings of buildings wif the usual blue sky,n....basically just me pulling out all the stops. but work is comparatively more relaxing now, now dat all the history papers r over. n when i finally get my holidays n my life back in a few days time, i won’t want to pick up my paintbrush again for quite a long time. freaking exhausted wif painting n art.

YES we finally made it through jc!!!!!!!! HAHA!!!!

THIS IS A TRUE STORY.

Chemistry

Introductory Chemistry at Duke University has been taught for about a
zillion years by Professor Bonk (really), and his course is
semi-affectionately known as "Bonkistry." He has been around forever,
so I wouldn't put it past him to come up with something like this.

Anyway, one year there were these two guys who were taking Chemistry
and who did pretty well on all of the quizzes and the midterms and
labs, etc., such that going into the final they had a solid A. These
two friends were so confident going into the final that the weekend
before finals week (even though the Chem final was on Monday), they
decided to go up to UVirginia and party with some friends up there.

So they did this and had a great time. However, with their hangovers
and everything, they overslept all day Sunday and didn't make it back
to Duke until early monday morning. Rather than taking the final then,
what they did was to find Professor Bonk after the final and explain to
him why they missed the final. They told him that they went up to UVa
for the weekend, and had planned to come back in time to study, but
that they had a flat tire on the way back and didn't have a spare and
couldn't get help for a long time and so were late getting back to
campus.

Bonk thought this over and then agreed that they could make up the
final on the following day. The two guys were elated and relieved.

So, they studied that night and went in the next day at the time that
Bonk had told them. He placed them in separate rooms and handed each
of them a test booklet and told them to begin. They looked at the
first problem, which was something simple about molarity and solutions
and was worth 5 points. "Cool" they thought, "this is going to be
easy." They did that problem and then turned the page. They were
unprepared, however, for what they saw on the next page. It said:


(95 points) Which tire?