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Before our Act Sci 3503 test, we were all looking around prepared for the ogive-drench Nelson-Aalen estimator induced death march.  I looked at the guy next to me and asked him to show me his game face.  Nothing… I asked the guy to the right of me, and he look stern faced.  I started making my way around the room and finally got a solid “grr…” after some prodding.  Then, we got to the Asian TA who without provocation clenched his fists, winced his eyes and gave a resounding “raaaaaw”.  That broke the tension nicely.

We discussed interview dress today in BA 2101 and the teacher mentioned that if you’re interviewing for marketing or buying for a clothier you should wear their attire to the interview.  I immediately burst out laughing.  The teacher asked what was so funny and responded “Speedo”.

It was going to say Victoria’s Secret, which is what I was thinking but between the feminist majority bitch in the 2nd row and the fact that they’re trying to become a dresswear firm I opted against it

Later the term “butter mustache” came up but I can’t remember under what context and a somehow that got combined with hummus to make a Dirty Sanchez.  I fell asleep during this, so I may have missed something

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A bonus assignment for BA 2101 involved doing a “skills and passions inventory” so as a bit of an end-note I included my personal statement of value (available on the about page if you really care). I received the paper back, but didn’t get any credit because I failed to include a citation for the quote… that I came up with… titled “my value statement”. I almost sent her the link to the source until I realized the sterling praise I often give my business classes at Temple. Gr…

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In my BA 2101 “Get Ready to Work” class, one assignment consisted of creating a fake experience portfolio for a job interview.  The process was to think about a hypothetical piece of work you could provide to an employer to prove competence in your field.  Easy for a photographer, actor, or writer, not so easy for an actuary.  I wrote the following:

  1. Randomly select 10 people from local retirement home
  2. Guess when they’ll die
  3. Check-up periodically, select new people as fogeys succumb to icy hand of death

I hope that counts.  Should it not, like four would become “based on results, adjust investments in Centrum Silver and coffin manufacturers accordingly.

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I’m currently sitting in BA 2101 and looking over the shoulder of the guy in front of me’s laptop.  He’s on a Nike-fanboy site talking about some guy who stole prototypes of a new color (it was gold with green sparkles).  His Flickr feed consisted of pictures of his shoes in front of monuments and stuff  and he’s a moderator on NikeTalk.   During this he took a picture of his shoes in class. Somewhere, a marketing executive for Nike has just climaxed while a child factory worker shed a single tear.