Yeah, she walked and is for real finished. I have two summer classes to take online, so technically I could have walked, but opted not to. No desire. So instead I sat with her parents and nursed a hangover in silent agony in 85 degree heat in a dress uniform.

Nope...at least not on the more difficult climbing routes. Many of them require finger strength and traction control that you would lose with gloves.

Sounds pretty disheartening. I admit I wouldn't have been able to do it. I thought about going today, but I went bouldering instead. It's not like it mattered much because most of my closest friends actually aren't at my school (including my GF), and even those that are didn't graduate this year. When I finish next year, I'll actually be walking with two guys who started a year after me, but I'm closer to them than anyone else in my program.

Eh, it was fine. Alot of guys in my Fraternity walked and I understand that it's my fault I'm not graduating...well, mine and Afghanistan's but I digress.

And that was my payback for the times she attended parades and had to stand around in a big floppy hat.

That seems to be a pretty good excuse. :D

Yeah, for the semester I missed because of it...but the semester afterwards in which I partied my ass off and made a 1.65 after 15 weeks of "I'm not dead, Stephanie left me, and danny didn't come home" was all me.

In that case, yes. But props to you for being man enough to admit it.

I also relate. I didn't exactly fuck off and party all year (I at least worked hard enough to do well in my classes, and did plenty of research and TAing), but I purposely took my sweet time on my thesis. I made an unconscious decision last fall that I liked being at a desk in the university library (which is where I spend 6-8 hours a day) a lot more than I liked being at a cubicle (where I spent last summer, and my first year out of college). I feel sorta guilty that I'm spending so much of my parents' money on tuition, rent, and luxuries (food, alcohol, etc.), but I enjoy student life a little too much to give it up now.

You can pretty much get anybody in trouble for anything, legal or not, by crying racism these days.

I remember 2 or 3 years ago I read an article about some professor who claimed America was still segregated because people didn't "integrate minorities into their weekend activities" or something like that, a conclusion I didn't really understand the logic behind. What am I supposed to do, invite along a bunch of random black or Asian people I see on the street when I go to the lake or something with family?

This is the most awesome commercial I've ever seen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnSIp76CvUI

Yes, and you are not allowed to get angry when one of those guys stabs/robs you

There are three annoying girls in the library next to me and the won't shut up!!!