evolution

yes, that’s right. i am blowing off my lesson plan tomorrow to talk to you all. it turns out that you are just as responsive as my calculus class is, as evidenced by the “0 comments” line after each post. (and to be fair to my calculus class, they were improving before the break. we’ll see what has atrophied, besides me, in the time off.)

i am this much closer to committing to purdue. each day that passes without contact from the four remaining schools to which i applied makes me less inclined to attend them, and makes the generous offer from purdue look even more attractive. purdue is one of the finest schools in the land, and i can’t wait to visit it later this week.

you might get a laugh out of this. one of my former students (incidentally, he is a combat veteran of gulf war I) hailed me in the hallway, and in our conversation he called my office mate tim and i “knowledge warehouses”. it was all i could do to suppress a laugh. i have never thought of myself as a “knowledge warehouse”, nor all that especially intelligent. i know many people who are far more learned than myself, and are more learned than most people ever dream of.