I promised I would give you a non-sports post, but I was lying, until now!!!

So this could be the one Columbus-related post I'll hand out.

First, I attended this thing called "Math Camp," which makes me feel silly because I never took differential equations. It would be awesome if I could solve these things, but I really can't as of yet. I did take some set theory and some calculus, and I think proving things is interesting but I'm not very good at it.

Second, I really don't care about economics at all, but I do have some thoughts about Mark Rothko if anybody wants to ask. It's clear that I've missed my calling in life, but I may actually get a job, which is more important than finding one's calling anyway. Self-actualization is like, sooo overrated.

Third, people in Columbus are generally a) white b) preppy/jocular c) prone to binge drinking. Apparently you can have a bunch of people at houses here, wandering around randomly in the streets without any chance of repurcussion. It doesn't help that Ohio State decided to schedule FOUR FRICKIN' HOME GAMES to start the year. That's right, I said it, and I'll only take it back if an actual Buckeye gets mad at me. I think it's a great idea to schedule four straight home games; that makes the campus really easy to get around with 100,000 PEOPLE ON IT! College students are really pretty irresponsible, but what makes it worse is their irresponsible alumni parents showing them how to party in the mid-afternoon, working these little minds into a hedonistic frenzy by the time it's 7:00 P.M. And since they don't actually have anything to do, they don't feel any sort of guilt for all of this. Yeah, the apples never fall far from the tree. Maybe someday I'll be awesome and buy a Mike Nugent Jets jersey too, then I can have a beer in my hand and laugh it up like an idiot. And I haven't even interacted with these folks, nor have they interacted with me.

Or maybe I'm just upset because Louisville and Iowa lost today. That makes me really sad. So much for our BCS game. Now we can look forward to the Insight Bowl. Louisville's defense sucks, it just got exposed today. And I know I should be happy for the Buckeyes, but my family is from Iowa.

Fourth, the qualifiers are ridiculous tests that only 65% of students passed last year.

Fifth, I think the people are nice enough.

I'll describe the grad school students here:

1) Pete. He lives near me, is older than me, and has a brother who's in the program and made it through year 1. Plus, he loves college football. He also makes fun of me for being left-handed.

2) Rob. He's from LSU and has a nice apartment with tasteful decor. If I fail out, I'm probably going to talk with his fiancee about interior design, even though she's an accountant.

3) Lucas. He's a nice guy with a blog and a website. He's also witty.

4) Nate. I don't really know him yet, but I might later.

5) Lynne. She's from Tennessee and has a boyfriend who's applying to med school. I think we have a necessary amount of things in common.

6) Neil. He's from Jersey and cheers for the Yankees. At least he's not obnoxious about the Yanks. And kudos to him for not wanting to be an academic!

7) Dongwoo. He's Korean and he flies to Seattle to visit his girlfriend. Also, he's really nice.

8) mysterious Korean girl whose name I don't recall but who lives in my building. Also nice. I wish I could remember names.

Common themes from grad school: Rob and Pete comparing New Orleans hot spots... Lucas doing homework during Dr. Lam's lectures... everybody referencing where they went to school way too much since that's the only thing we have in common (going to a school previously)... and none of us following everything Dr. Miyazaki says.

And last, I don't really do anything other than watch TV and half-heartedly look at econ. So I"m hoping things pick up.