Today was the last day of classes. Thankfully, all of my papers are turned in now, so all I have to worry about is finals.
I’ve really enjoyed this semester and all of the wonderful things that have happened.
I am really looking forward to next semester’s classes.
Now, onward to finals!
(I will be home for Christmas on Dec. 18!)
“Senior Kevin Hershock keeps careful count of his T-shirts. As the president of Be A Number, every $20 shirt he sells has a twin that will become the property of an underprivileged child in America or a third world country.” Read the rest of the articleArchived Link.
Oh, and all bagels I eat from now on will be cut like this.
Two statues of great Americans braving the harsh winter while their ideas do the same.
Click on the photos to view them at a larger size.
(Weather note: The windchill was -4 degrees while I was taking these photos.)
I took some photos of the men’s basketball team practicing today:
A little over 3 inches of snow was dumped on Hillsdale in the last few hours! Hopefully I will have some time to take a few photos of it tomorrow.
As I was looking through my photo library tonight, I realized that it was exactly a year ago yesterday that I saw Handel’s Messiah performed at Hillsdale. (If you didn’t read yesterday’s post, I went to see it performed in Detroit yesterday.) I saw the performances exactly a year apart! I thought that was pretty exciting.
Here are two photos I took of the performance a year ago yesterday at College Baptist:
The Hillsdale College Choir:
The violins, violas, and harpsichord, as well as Professor Holleman and the timpanis:
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What’s happening in my life: It is the last week of classes now. It just started snowing this week, too, which I am excited about. I am currently finishing a paper for my Austrian economics class, and I have another one due Friday for a seminar I am taking. I praise God that my stress level is not as high as it usually is during this time in the semester, and that everything is going well in my life. I am very excited to go home in less than two weeks!
Today, Amanda and I drove to Detroit to see Handel’s Messiah performed by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (I bought her tickets for her birthday). We had a wonderful time! The performance was excellent, we had great seats, and we ate good food afterwards at Union StreetArchived Link. Overall, today was a great day!
Here are two photos taken with the camera on my phone:
Here is the answer to the Blue Eyes Logic Puzzle I posted.
This answer comes from mathematician Terence Tao, and has to do with common knowledge.
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100 days after the Guru’s comment, all the blue eyed people will leave. This is proven as a special case of
Proposition. Suppose that the tribe had n blue-eyed people for some positive integer n. Then n days after the traveller’s address, all n blue-eyed people leave the island.
Proof: We induct on n. When n=1, the single blue-eyed person realizes that the traveler is referring to him or her, and thus leaves on the next day. Now suppose inductively that n is larger than 1. Each blue-eyed person will reason as follows: “If I am not blue-eyed, then there will only be n-1 blue-eyed people on this island, and so they will all leave n-1 days after the traveler’s address”. But when n-1 days pass, none of the blue-eyed people do so (because at that stage they have no evidence that they themselves are blue-eyed). After nobody leaves on the (n-1)st day, each of the blue eyed people then realizes that they themselves must have blue eyes, and will then leave on the nth day.
If you need any explanation of this, let me know.
I shot this photo of a few CCA papers for a Collegian article that was featured on page A1. Read the corresponding story at HillsdaleCollegian.com. (I had two A1 photos this week!)
When I first heard of this, I thought someone misspelled “Clunkers”… then I read on and realized this is another CfC-named program the government is putting on. I am sure you remember Cash for Clunkers, the $3 billion transfer program that destroyed wealth, right? Well, here is a new one- Cash for Caulkers, a “stimulus” program that plans to retrofit energy inefficient houses to make them more energy efficient, while providing jobs at the same time.
Read some of the details. I do not think this program is in effect yet, but since the president held his jobs summit today, I think this will likely come along soon. I found this by looking for something to write about for my last Austrian economics paper. I think my last paper is going to be an Austrian critique of this.
Let’s turn back the clock back a little bit to halloween (and no, I am not talking about retrodating this post…)
I never showed a photo of my halloween costume, so I am posting two now (photos courtesy of Liz Essley.)
Sitting in a chair:
Dancing:
What was it? A duck mask, hoodie, and shirt and tie. I didn’t mean it to actually be “something”… it was just a costume. Apparently it was kind of a creepy costume, though, especially when I walked into rooms and stood there without saying anything. There is just something creepy and mysterious about unchanging expressions…
As soon as everyone returned from Thanksgiving break, they got in the Christmas spirit! Here are two quick and rough shots I took of areas around Simpson dorm:
First Floor North (note: the stuff in the hall is wrapping paper, as they just finished wrapping the doors before this shot)
James and PG’s room
