Yesterday morning it was announced that Hastings intended to raise the GPA floor for extracurricular activities like internships and externships.  In other words, if you're not doing well in class, we're going to force you to do nothing other than not do well in class.  We'll take away the one thing (good internship experience) that might actually make you marketable when you graduate.

Hastings students became furious and within hours there was an online petition with hundreds of signatures.  By the time of the Hastings party that evening (paid for using our tuition dollars), the Dean of Students had already retracted.  Here's his open letter:

Stealth, Dirty Love, and Legally Blond: The Musical. Guess which one of the three was good.

So I only have one class today, at 11:40 am. So I decide to sleep in and take it easy a bit (I'll still go to class and then spend the rest of the day studying at school). I'm sitting in bed, checking email and looking at legos on eBay, and finally decide I ought to get up. Of course, I don't give myself enough time to get ready, so I'm a little rushed, and I finally make it out the door at 11:30. I know I'll be a little late, maybe 10 minutes, but figure that's not the end of the world. I hop on my bike and head toward school.

The good news: finally over that flu!  Two weeks of a headcold followed by three weeks of the flu = I was sick for the first five weeks of 2007.  But I feel better now, which means I can start catching up for all my missed homework.  Yech.

J

How-To smbfs: smbmnt must be installed suid root | Debian/Ubuntu Tips & Tricks

You don't actually have to do this.  You can also do a simple Samba share, and using Konqueror you can even connect to the server using SSH.  (The benefit of Samba is it's compatible with Windows, and the benefit of SSH is you get full access to the hard drive without worrying about shares or permissions, and it's a secure connection.)  But sometimes that's not good enough.