Today I went down to Xavier to exercise around 4:30 or so. After that, I went to help my buddy Dan with some thermodynamics homework. I had done it a while ago, and so I could not remember for the life of me how to solve some of those problems. This particular book doesn’t make things easy. The author will ask a simple question, but use complicated terms that disguise how simple the question really is. After having asked the question, he will either give you a “hint” or else pontificate on the meaning of the answer that you are about to derive. The net result of all of this it can be very difficult to figure out just exactly what the question is and how you’re supposed to go about answering it, but once you get that much figured out, it’s all pretty simple.
When I finished helping Dan out, I called my friend Mike, who is a physics grad student at OSU. He was down for the weekend visiting his girlfriend Alice, who is a student in my year. Me and Mike talked politics while Alice did homework, but eventually she either finished the homework or just couldn’t work with us making all of that noise. I had forgotten how entertaining it was to have a good political discussion. We went out to dinner and talked a bit more.
When we got back to the Commons building, I called my friend Mike Hellman, a high school buddy who went to Xavier with me. We were going to live together on campus until I decided against my better judgement to live at home. We played a couple of games of chess, all of which I lost, and did a bit of talking.
I am so happy to be spending my days with friends and having fun instead of just sitting at home by myself playing video games, as I did for the first 2.5 years of college.