The Answer, Beer, Another Game, Helping hands, and Qualifying Exams

So, what everybody's been waiting for: the answer.

$103.50

This made me very sad. :( So it seems that Josh and Erin's bet of $108.40 is the closest. But Pest wins the award for the funniest response: 50 Cent!

So upon receipt of contact info from these three people (DON'T POST IT IN HERE), you three shall receive authentic pieces of RPI merchandise.

So, onto more important topics: BEER!

I scoped out the "Discount Beverage" store a bit more, and found Trappist Rochefort 10:


While this isn't a rare find, its uncommon, and I haven't tried it yet. I'm letting it cellar for a while (until I get proper glassware to drink it), and then I'll get another one and cellar it for a long time.

I also got this, a pretty good All-Malt Lager:


So, time for another CROSS COUNTRY GAME. This time: guess the price of the bottle of Trappist Rochefort. (Not so easy to look up on Amazon :D)

So we had the physics department BBQ on Thursday, which was alot of fun. Unfortunately, I sat down at the table with all the new asian students, so they were all speaking Chinese (dammit Cecil, where are you when I need you?), and I didn't understand a word they were saying.

Some of them had to survey a friend for their immigration class, and so I got surveyed about 2 or 3 times during the picnic. It was pretty cool overall, it was about your high school education (I feel old when I have trouble remembering that far back :p).

Then I went to go TA. There I had to solve a problem from the book that I'd never seen before in 7 seconds or less and then explain it to the class. WHEEEEEEEEE

After that was done, I was leaving when Amanda caught me in the hallway. She said that one of the asian girls (who is an absolute sweetheart) didn't get her survey done, and she was desperately searching for somebody to survey. So I called her, and saved the day by AVERTING ANOTHER CRISIS! :D A good way to make friends.

Today I got word at 8am that the results of the qualifying exams would be released at 5pm. So I waited around all day to discover the results. If at first you don't succeed: YOU FAIL. Yeah, I didn't pass. But I was told that for a first time around with no studying my results were good.

There are two tests: Mechanics & Electromagnetics and Quantum Mechanics & Statistical Mechanics. You are given 10 problems on each test, hand in 8, and are graded on 6. On the first test, you need to get 3 right in each category: I got 2 right in each. And on the second test you need 4 and 2, and I got 3 and 0.

Not horrible results, this just means I need to study my ass off for the next time I take it. I get two more chances, in Jan and Aug. That should be the last test I ever take in my life. HarHar.

So yeah, that's it. Congrats to those who won the last game, and we'll see how this one goes.