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The site of the day is the Caedes desktop wallpaper community. I don’t normally participate in message boards or online communities for long, but I’ve been a member of this one for quite some time, because the focus is really on the images instead of the community. You can find almost any kind of photograph or image or computer-generated wallpaper you can think of and have a different beautiful image on your desktop every day. Definately makes computing more enjoyable.

Finals update: finished math 55 half an hour ago. I always hate leaving early, but when I’m done with a test my brain shuts off and I really have to force myself to look over it 4 or 5 times before turning it in. I finished, took a ten-minute nap, looked over it 4 or 5 times, turned it in, and got coffee. The test itself was surprisingly straightforward; I’m guaranteed to get full credit on 2 of the 5 problems, probably get about 75% on 2, and I don’t know about the 5th but I’d say about half credit if I’m lucky. I forgot a formula, so I put a blank box where the answer was supposed to be and wrote a plea: “All I need is this one closed summation form!” We’ll see. In any case, better than either midterm, so this’ll probably decide my grade (Ahh!).

Speaking of tests, I spent a good three hours after I was done studying talking with friends about the ideal college… we decided that there would be no grades, no tests, no red tape, no administrivia, only a whole bunch of people who know a whole lot about stuff and want to share it with a whole bunch of students who just want to learn. “Classes” would be held outside whenever possible and would have very few people in them, and the only requirement of students would be to go to school (any classes you want) for a few (flexible) hours a day, and a project / paper / something to demonstrate what you’ve learned per semester. It would be ideal, and, of course, insanely unrealistic. ::