Prog Jeopardy Times

Hey! I have a life.... kinda. 

Epignosis wrote: I'm prepared to host a game tonight if we can get the players.  The wife's going to her mother's tonight with the kid. So I'm like Kevin Costner tonight, only if two guys try to rob my home, I'll just shoot them. Even if it is Joe Pesci. Especially if it's Joe Pesci.

I may be able to play tonight, but I don't want to promise anything. I have 4 tests tomorrow, and even though they'll most likely be pretty easy and won't require too much studying, I have to at least sacrifice some time to that. It also depends on what I end up filling the rest of my day with.

If we get some good responses though, leave me a message and I'll keep checking if I'm not on the computer for an extended period of time. Hopefully this poll will also establish a good consensus on a time that we could play.

Epignosis wrote: Tests, schmests. I just cheated.  Never got caught either. Well once. I was copying a friend's homework at lunch, right before we were supposed to go to class, and the vice principal caught me.  We called her the Joker, because she wore so much makeup and seemed to be grinning all the time.  Anyway, she took my friend's completed homework and balled it up, leaving me with mine nearly finished.  So I had my homework, but I couldn't give my friend hers back. Sucked for her, didn't it?

That's awful.

I always do my homework and complete my tests honestly, but that's just me. I could never cheat on anything I'd ever do, simply for my own benefit. I like learning anyway, generally.

Epignosis wrote: I repented of such behavior after high school.  I was an A student until then, because in high school, I didn't really care, and didn't know what I was going to do with my life. Believe it or not, I have been an English teacher, but in high school, I read maybe six books, tops (okay, two of them were Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, but still).  The ones I had to do a report on, I was great at BSing my way through the whole thing- even oral presentations. In college, however, I found it better to do my own work, mainly because I realized everybody else was a complete moron.  No joke. Still, it was refreshing to write about things I wanted to write about, and for the most part, have a professor help you develop as a writer.  I realized that by depending on myself, I got much more out of things. For instance, my American Literature professor was the hardest but kindest professor I ever had.  Every week, he would quiz us.  You know how? Think of this way- you have prog teacher, and he gives you a CD to listen to as a quiz, one without a track listing.  You have to listen to the CD, and name the band performing each song. It was like that- only with literature.  You had to name the author of random passages he would pass out.  You had to be so good, you had to know the author's style.  And that helped me more than anything else.

Yeah, exactly. I have been always extremely awful at BSing, so I couldn't do that even if I wanted to. Since being very young I've had a natural interest in learning so I've usually liked school (though I was definitely not a typical nerd---I don't fit that at all). Consequently, I learned quickly that depending on myself was the ultimate source of satisfaction I could find in my life. After reading the Fountainhead at age 14, it was like I had finally begun to understand everything; it was amazing how close that Roark fit everything that I've been wandering towards my entire life before that but not as concretely... there it was laid out right in front of me in the span of less than 1000 pages.

From that point on I've realized so much more out of everything that happens every day in my life than as a child I ever would have imagined.