Thoughts on Cold Air and Cold Milk

It is getting cold up here in Wisconsin. Not that good old try Montana cold, it is like moist New Jersey cold all over again. To be horribly clique, the cold that chills you to the bone. I am pretty damn excited for the snow to come though. Cannot wait to go ice skating on the lake. It will be a great break from philosophizing with Plato about "What Is?". History Of Scientific Thought is a ridiculous class, reading all this ancient Greek "natural science" is just incredible. These guys knew literally nothing about what we consider modern science, and yet they had in-depth explanations about almost everything. It is a breath of fresh air to think about the world from a completely new and different view point. It is also damn hard to read all of it and not let my opinions and thoughts be poisoned by modern knowledge. The word is "modernist", or having a modernist view point. Seriously though, we spent a whole discussion talking about the question: "What is?" Next week we will be getting into: "How do we know what we know." We take so much for granted in this day and age, while Plato and the gang devoted their lives to figuring out the most basic of all ideas. Go college learning and stuff!

Also go drinking milk straight out of the bottle. I waited so long to be free from my oppressive parents, making me use a glass to drink my milk.

This is one of those, I have seen this song live and it makes it so much more awesome moments.

Maps - The Yeah Yeah Yeahs


-KGM

Thoughts on Organizing

I organized all day today. It felt a lot better than I think it should make someone feel. I laid out all my hats and shoes in rows, and color coordinated them. I was honestly a tad bit worried about how good it felt to be so organized. I am sure my mother would be very proud of me though. I think what happened was I sat on my futon all day and did homework while the Madison IronMan Triathlon was going on right outside my window. I felt like such a lazy slob... Also took a bike ride over to picnic point and the community gardens. What a surprise, it was all so beautiful. I saw a huge Red-Tailed Hawk and a little Cardinal. This place has everything. I feel like my blog has made a decisive switch from bitching about New Jersey to talking about how much I freaking love Wisconsin. I have fallen in love with Madison, Wisconsin, deeply in love. As a side not I had to watch a video lecture on ethics! stupid stupid stuff. These little situations they talk about never happen in real life, and the "rules" they set from the scare medicine situation and the rest never work in real life. I HATE IT!

REPOST OF CLOUD CULT HAHAHA DEAL WITH IT!



-KGM

Goddamn I am Slacking

So much as been going on this past week. This guy played Amazing Grace on his BAG PIPES!!! earlier and I threw down with the other "hipster" kid on bands that "you have probably never heard of." So before I got here my mom gave this pretty serious talk about intelligence. She basically said that I was going to a school full of really smart people. She had been a very intelligent person, top of the class in her high school, and had not dealt so well with being around everyone who was just as smart or smarter than her. While I have yet to encounter this phenomena, mostly because I could care less if people are smarter than me. But imagine the same idea, only with music. Then times it by 1000x. This kid dragged my ass through every conceivable musical genre and listed off 100s of bands that I had never heard off. My hipster ego was quite battered. They said college was about getting out of your comfort zone and I was very uncomfortable with this kid knowing all of my super random bands and what not. I mean come on! On another note, my History of Science class is freaking incredible. I sat in a 90 min lecture while the professor was just dropping knowledge bombs left and right. I could not be happier with the University of Wisconsin. I will do my best to not skip like a week of posts.

As for the music, this one goes out to the kid in my house who brought his bagpipes to college. You sir, are a total badass.



-KGM

Thoughts on Doing Same Changes Around Here

As you might have noticed this whole one past a day thing has been failing pretty hard. I guess you have a lot less free time when in College than when you live in a retirement community in New Jersey. So long story short I probably will not be getting around to the daily posts.
Onward!
Turner Kronshage House (my dorm) got second place in the KroCS Olympic games. I, along with most of the house, did our darnedest to win. It was a 2 day event, with several games yesterday and then a scavenger hunt today. We owned all our games yesterday, which basically amounted to taking one scavenger picture. I am rambling about this but I honestly rode my bike around the entirety of Madison, Wisconsin taking pictures in front of important buildings and landmarks. I went there, I was willing to look like a total tourist fool, for the sake of Turner house. The house that did not even show up for Ultimate Frisbee, Jeopardy or the relay race did more scavenging so they won. I was pissed. Otherwise college is going swimmingly, I have good friend and am getting into the routine. I talk like I am in college but we have honestly only had one day of classes. It is a lot of fun now, but pretty soon I will defiantly be buckling down and doing some serious work. Gonna be a long road too that PH.D, but we will make it. HIV better watch out!


HAHAHAHAHAAH

-KGM

Thoughts on Python

No this is not about a python, or any other kind of snake. Python is a programming language (I think). I was using the wonderful Stumble! button and came across a free book called "Learn Python The Hard Way". Since I have recently came to the conclusion that I will be need to do a minor in Computer Science, and learn to write my own programs, I decided to give it a shot. I got through five chapters without a ridiculous amount of trouble. It is all pretty interesting and the feeling you get when you run something that you have written and it works is pretty cool. I think if you get a big smile going when write some tiny thing like I am , and it works; then I bet when your a super god at it and write some ridiculous program that takes a year to make and you finally finish it and it runs for the first time you must be over flowing with joy. I must say I feel a lot better spending my evening doing something useful instead of wasting the hours away on youtube... I have college orientation coming up in a few weeks and I need to study some calculus for the placement test. It is officially time to get off the lazy do nothing swing and get back in the swing of academic work and studying. I am going to College SOON. I must say that I am absolutely stoked to go. Call me a nerd but just thinking about all the learning and stuff..ohh man. I cannot wait to dive into some Microbiology soon. I am such a freaking closet nerd I swear. For those that do not know, I am going to get my Ph.D in Virology and work on vaccine development to save lives. I am a huge nerd and love schoolwork.
That is all...

Of course for the music today. I introduce to you another favorite of mine, Wumpscut. :W:!!



-KGM