Archive for December 17th, 2004

Ad I saw a few days ago

December 17th 2004

As seen on a billboard on St. John’s Bluff Rd., slightly south of Beach Blvd (in Jacksonville).

Teenage drinking is down
Teenage substance abuse is down
Teenage responsibility is UP

And some people thought abstinence education wouldn’t work.

It kind of blows my mind. I didn’t know that telling kids to keep their pants on would magically make them stop drinking and using drugs. Although I find it weird that the billboard didn’t mention teenage pregnancy or rape. I suppose we should assume those both went up under abstinence education. :-(

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Wow

December 17th 2004

These are my grades from the last 4 classes I took before graduating:

Course Description Final Grade Comments
CEN4516/018 Networks & Distributed Processing B
CIS4301 User Interface Design A
COP4610 Operating Systems A This was the class where I found a security bug in the given assignment.
COP4710 Database Modeling A I had been expecting a C or B- earlier in the semester, but apparently it was just a trial to separate the wheat from the chaff, as the professor grew considerly less strict the last half of the class, and our group’s spectacular performance on the SQL engine I was complaining about last month really helped as well.

Although the good performance helped my overall GPA, the B I earned in Networks cost me promotion from cum laude to magna cum laude, as I missed the mark by 0.01 GPA points. Oh well, it’s not like the Navy cares. =D

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