Two-hundred and fifty dollars to take the GMAT? Good heavens! … I guess I better do it right the first time. And … for some reason, MSU doesn’t offer the GMAT at its testing center. That doesn’t make sense. Doesn’t MSU pride itself on having a fantastic business school? Why, then, in heaven’s name, doesn’t […]
Month: September 2008
Existential Losers
Did anyone else find a little ironic John McCain’s insistence during Friday’s presidential debate that he “never won the Miss Congeniality award in the senate” when, of course, his running mate actually did win “Miss Congeniality” in the Miss Alaska pageant? Also: during the debate, McCain said that a nuclear Iran poses an “existential threat” […]
Cortisone Cadaver
It took a few days for last week’s cortisone shot to kick in (a rather cool procedure … they put you on a slab and run a live x-ray machine to help the doctor guide the needle in to the correct place in your spine … if you’re not feint of heart, you can watch […]
Super Mario Brothers!
Well, the new semester is officially rip-roaring away. I realized this on Thursday when I showed up to my History 407 class. I knew that there was a paper due some time … and to see all the neatly typed and printed papers sitting on desks around the room, I realized that Thursday must have […]
Syllabus Week
Ah, syllabus week. That wonderful first week of school when the class routine consists of showing up, calling role, handing out the course syllabus, and enduring the indignity of having the syllabus read aloud to you by the course professor. Sadly, all but one of my classes began in this wasteful and most insulting of […]