Comments on: Non-Academic Lessons I Learned at Crazy Go Nuts University, Part 3 http://www.joeydevilla.com/2004/09/14/non-academic-lessons-i-learned-at-crazy-go-nuts-university-part-3/ Joey deVilla's Personal Blog Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:27:09 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.joeydevilla.com/2004/09/14/non-academic-lessons-i-learned-at-crazy-go-nuts-university-part-3/comment-page-1/#comment-3678 Anonymous Wed, 15 Sep 2004 16:56:08 +0000 http://www.joeydevilla.com/2004/09/14/non-academic-lessons-i-learned-at-crazy-go-nuts-university-part-3/#comment-3678 We had geology on friday afternoons. We'd get liquored up at Ritual and then stagger over to Ellis to watch movies on volcanoes. Oh, how the memories come flooding back. -- Lara We had geology on friday afternoons. We’d get liquored up at Ritual and then stagger over to Ellis to watch movies on volcanoes.

Oh, how the memories come flooding back.

— Lara

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.joeydevilla.com/2004/09/14/non-academic-lessons-i-learned-at-crazy-go-nuts-university-part-3/comment-page-1/#comment-3677 Anonymous Tue, 14 Sep 2004 23:45:49 +0000 http://www.joeydevilla.com/2004/09/14/non-academic-lessons-i-learned-at-crazy-go-nuts-university-part-3/#comment-3677 Man, I don't remember the dry ice gag at all. Just want to make it clear that I know that we would've only done pheromones if I'd taken *organic* chemistry, which certainly wasn't part of this EE Geek Options curricula. I had the first year timetable from hell. Mechanical drawing on *FRIDAY AFTERNOON!!!*. So, I'd spend as little time at the drafting tables as I could, knowing that Ritual had started *right* across the street. [sigh]. Ah. Good times.....good times. Man, I don’t remember the dry ice gag at all. Just want to make it clear that I know that we would’ve only done pheromones if I’d taken *organic* chemistry, which certainly wasn’t part of this EE Geek Options curricula.

I had the first year timetable from hell. Mechanical drawing on *FRIDAY AFTERNOON!!!*. So, I’d spend as little time at the drafting tables as I could, knowing that Ritual had started *right* across the street. [sigh].

Ah. Good times…..good times.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.joeydevilla.com/2004/09/14/non-academic-lessons-i-learned-at-crazy-go-nuts-university-part-3/comment-page-1/#comment-3676 Anonymous Tue, 14 Sep 2004 22:14:29 +0000 http://www.joeydevilla.com/2004/09/14/non-academic-lessons-i-learned-at-crazy-go-nuts-university-part-3/#comment-3676 The only things that I remember from Chem class in Gordon hall are: a) the prof popping a piece of dry ice in his mouth and blowing smoke out his nose. b) the standard "introduce fire to this container of lycapodium" demonstration. Other than that, it was just lots and lots of titrations. Snore. -- Lara The only things that I remember from Chem class in Gordon hall are:

a) the prof popping a piece of dry ice in his mouth and blowing smoke out his nose.

b) the standard “introduce fire to this container of lycapodium” demonstration.

Other than that, it was just lots and lots of titrations. Snore.

— Lara

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.joeydevilla.com/2004/09/14/non-academic-lessons-i-learned-at-crazy-go-nuts-university-part-3/comment-page-1/#comment-3675 Anonymous Tue, 14 Sep 2004 21:56:41 +0000 http://www.joeydevilla.com/2004/09/14/non-academic-lessons-i-learned-at-crazy-go-nuts-university-part-3/#comment-3675 Man, I'm with you. Chem labs at Gordon were teh sux0rs. Phase Diagrams? What? Who? I must confess, 15 years later, I can't remember a single experiment from our chem labs. Why couldn't we have had progressive teachers who gave us wicked cool experiments with *intentional* pyrotechnics, or, I dunno...synthetic pheromones to take with us to Psych 101 (the only class I ever took as part of AppSci EE where women outnumbered guys by at least a 3:1 ratio). Man, I’m with you. Chem labs at Gordon were teh sux0rs. Phase Diagrams? What? Who?

I must confess, 15 years later, I can’t remember a single experiment from our chem labs. Why couldn’t we have had progressive teachers who gave us wicked cool experiments with *intentional* pyrotechnics, or, I dunno…synthetic pheromones to take with us to Psych 101 (the only class I ever took as part of AppSci EE where women outnumbered guys by at least a 3:1 ratio).

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.joeydevilla.com/2004/09/14/non-academic-lessons-i-learned-at-crazy-go-nuts-university-part-3/comment-page-1/#comment-3674 Anonymous Tue, 14 Sep 2004 15:25:14 +0000 http://www.joeydevilla.com/2004/09/14/non-academic-lessons-i-learned-at-crazy-go-nuts-university-part-3/#comment-3674 S&R is still - to this day - my favourite cheap-ass store. Forget Walmart or Zellers (second favourite); how can you go wrong at a department store that still has someone operating the elevator?! However, i do prefer Kingston in the summer when all the Queen's students return home to Vancouver/Toronto, and i get my town back. S&R is still – to this day – my favourite cheap-ass store. Forget Walmart or Zellers (second favourite); how can you go wrong at a department store that still has someone operating the elevator?!

However, i do prefer Kingston in the summer when all the Queen’s students return home to Vancouver/Toronto, and i get my town back.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.joeydevilla.com/2004/09/14/non-academic-lessons-i-learned-at-crazy-go-nuts-university-part-3/comment-page-1/#comment-3673 Anonymous Tue, 14 Sep 2004 14:45:48 +0000 http://www.joeydevilla.com/2004/09/14/non-academic-lessons-i-learned-at-crazy-go-nuts-university-part-3/#comment-3673 *sigh* One of these days, I'm going to lose count of the number of times I've burned something attached to me. When a group of pyromaniacs get together, we start to catalog interesting ways we've managed to burn or catch afire people or things. The obnoxious part is when I manage to burn my bangs often enough that I forget to get a haircut (if I can't see my bangs, it means that the hair's not long enough yet) and then end up with a mullet. *sigh*

One of these days, I’m going to lose count of the number of times I’ve burned something attached to me.

When a group of pyromaniacs get together, we start to catalog interesting ways we’ve managed to burn or catch afire people or things.

The obnoxious part is when I manage to burn my bangs often enough that I forget to get a haircut (if I can’t see my bangs, it means that the hair’s not long enough yet) and then end up with a mullet.

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