May 21, 2009
Thursday
Authored by John
The day before the Final Exam began in sluggish fashion, as both JM and I were very tired from the crazy Ratatat concert from the night before. A guest speaker from the Wall Street Journal - who covered the US auto industry and now follows the Chinese auto industry - came in and spoke with our class. He basically gave a presentation on how China plans to "leapfrog" US, Europe, and Japan auto companies by focusing on electric and hybrid cars. Slightly unplausable and unrelated to the Wall Street Journal but it was pretty interesting. After he spoke for about 2 hours, they brought in McDonalds. The chicken nuggets and Big Mac were very good, and we asked Brad questions about the Final Exam afterward. It was pretty ridiculous at some points. People were freaking out about the exam which was open book and open note. Needless to say, he ended many of his answers with "Don't worry about it, you will be fine" and I had to remind him that this is our first open note test HA!
I took a nap when we got back to the hotel, and JM finished his book of readings on China. When I woke up, we went to Pyro pizza with a few people. Their subs and pizzas were very good ... tasted comparable to American places. Then, since I was super behind on the readings (maybe read 2/10 up to this point), I started trudging away. JM was finished already, so he read more of his "Hot, Flat, and Crowded" book by Thomas Freidman. I (basically) finished and we listened to some music. I looked over at one point, and he was closing his eyes and stiff as a board on his bed. Like, super erect. I thought, that's super weird, and asked him what he was doing. He said, "What colors do you see when you listen to this song? I see lots of yellow. ...and some green." I was literally speechless. What a freak. Haha but we talked out some of the concepts after his brief encounter in another world.
LSD? No thanks, my friend and I are high on life. We fell asleep at about 12, ready and PUMPED for the final the following morning.......
Posted by jfavorit at May 21, 2009 06:33 AM