The Discrete Structures midterm went off without a hitch today. Actually it was pretty easy, despite the pounding headache I had throughout the entire thing. A lot of people finished early (within the first hour of the hour and twenty minute exam), and after flipping through their exam, the instructor (a math grad student) just signed and slammed their exam on the overhead. It’s the first time he has taught the course, but I think he’s doing a pretty good job. I guess he’s concerned that there are people in the class that aren’t doing well.
This morning before the exam, I sent a letter to CNN. They read viewer e-mail every morning, and I was hoping that they would read my comment. Who knows if they actually did because I had a 10 AM meeting. In any case, here is the text of the message I sent (based on this post I made a few days ago):
Let’s not have the media convict Rudolph on the air like they did to Richard Jewell back in 1996. Tom Brokaw pronounced him guilty, and the families of the bombing victims were ready to hang him high in Olympic Park. Whatever happened to trial by jury? It has become “trial by media” and everyone is “guilty until proven innocent.” Rudolph is still presumed innocent until a jury decides otherwise.
Lee Emmert, Troy NY
It’s true, right? I mean, come on, the guy has basically been convicted and it will be nearly impossible to find a jury for a fair trial. And unfortunately that seems to be the case with a lot of high profile trials nowadays. So that was the e-mail I sent to CNN’s AM program this morning, it might appear tomorrow morning, I’ll let you know if it does!
I have some meetings tomorrow morning, and then I’ll be hitting the books all afternoon and evening for Abnormal Psychology. I’m quite a bit behind in the reading! I also have a case study due Wednesday night where you get a case and have to come up with a complete diagnosis out of the DSM. Sound like fun? Actually it should be interesting, although I have no idea about how to use the DSM to form a diagnosis :-/
So I’m ending the evening with some work on a couple of web projects. Have a good night!