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As of just after 2pm today (when I turned in my geometry exam), I am finished with college. How insane is that? I’ll tell you, it’s totally mad. And by totally mad I mean really freakin’ awesome.

Speaking of the geometry exam, it was quite… difficult in places. I actually didn’t spend as long on it as I did the last one, largely because I got some hints from the professor early on. But there were still some not-so-easy problems.

So there’s this question on the geometry exam that says “Prove that if three points are chosen, one on each side of a triangle, then the circles determined by a vertex and the two points on the adjacent sides of the chosen vertex meet at a point.” and I answered as follows:

Once upon a time there was a student who wanted to get a good grade on the exam but he had no idea at all how to go about solving most of the problems. Then he talked to his teacher and she helped a lot but he still couldn’t solve two of the problems. Since the student couldn’t prove either of the problems, he decided to write a story about one of them and draw a pretty picture.

There was once a triangle named Fred. He was a very nice looking blue triangle. Then one day Fred got the chicken pox. All of a sudden there appeared six red spots, one at each of his vertices and one on each of his sides. Fred was very upset by this and called his circle friends to see if they could help him out. George, Bob, and Jim hurried right over. While they were inspecting Fred’s spots, Bob exclaimed, "Look at this! I can fit myself over the spot at your left vertex and the spots on your adjacent sides! " "Great. " Fred said dejectedly. "You just go on ahead and lie there. It’s not helping me get any better." Then George made a similar discovery: "Fred, I fit over your top vertex and the spots on the adjacent sides!" This did not help Fred’s mood. "I called you guys over here to help me get rid of the spots, not to play on them!" Discouraged, the circles were about to leave when Jim tripped and fell onto Fred. "Um, Fred, I don’t want to cause any trouble, but I just fell onto your right vertex and, well, look!" Amazingly all three circles were meeting at a single point. "Wow!" said Fred, "How can I ever repay you for helping me figure out the reason for my spots?" "Well," Bob replied, "you could prove why we are able to meet at a single point like this." So Fred tried and tried, but he couldn’t determine why the circles all lined up like they did. He died an old and bitter triangle. The end.

And the moral of the story is: If you have three green circles for friends, don’t let them play on your chicken pox.

Maybe I’ll get some points for creativity. :-)

Other things happening lately: I’ve been watching Taken on and off. I’m not as addicted to it as other people, but it’s an interesting show. Tuesday night I watched Pi with some other people. I enjoyed it… it’s a kinda messed-up-but-cool movie, and i found it to have a lot to say about the search for meaning in life. Oh, and I really liked the music… I gotta get me some of that. Also, we had an ice storm on Tuesday. That was exciting and very pretty. My roommate took some cool pictures.

Speaking of pictures, I wish I had a camera with me this morning. After our networking exam, Dave and I walked up on "the hill." The valley was so amazing, with fog and rising and the trees all covered with ice and shining… it brought new meaning to the phrase "winter wonderland" :-) Somebody did get a shot of it though — the top right picture on the ice storm page on EMU’s website is a bit like what we saw. But of course it’s not nearly as cool as being there.

Now that I’m done, what’s next, you ask? Working, of course. I’ve got a full-time job doing IT type stuff. Sound exciting? Oh, you know it is!

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