Wohoo, one more day has come and gone. Today was a great day, I must say. The past six days have consisted of eating, going to class, studying microeconomic analysis, and consuming caffeine. Today was no different, except we had a meeting with SSgt. today to make sure our sword detail was ready and proficient for the Navy/Marine Corps Birthday Ball on Friday. I think we're very crisp and ready. It's kind of interesting for me because I'm the only freshman on sword detail, so I had to pick it up quickly. Like everything else in life, you just pay attention really well once, practice a bit,and you've got it. Nothing too complicated about military drill. However, SSgt is planning thing excellently...he might should consider  a job in wedding planning once he leaves the Corps.  He knows how to organize a ball, that's for sure.

You know, my roommate and I have gotten pretty cutthroat regarding this econ midterm. We have studied SO much, but we don't tell anyone. Whenever any classmates see us and ask if we've been studying, we respond with something like "Me? pshhh, not really...I'm just going to wing it." EVERY SINGLE PERSON has responded by saying that haven't studied either. You see, if we told people how much we have studied, they would freak out and study a bunch too so we don't set the curve. But my roommate and I want too set the curve, and this is a competition. Life here is academically cutthroat. ---just to give you a look at how seriously I take my academics. Also, my professor for my Macroeconomics course next semester WAS AWARDED THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE THIS WEEK! I'm taking a class taught by a Nobel Prize winner next semester in econ!!!!

Tonight for dinner, Pierson had breakfast foods. I walked in and saw the sign "biscuits and gravy", and got very very excited. Only to be disappointed. Look at what they consider to be biscuits and gravy:

(Click to enlarge this atrocity)

THEY USED BROWN GRAVY. Need I say more? Maybe I've just been spoiled with homemade biscuits and gravy growing up, but I would expect a gas station in a border state like Virginia to hold itself to a higher standard than this. Come on, Yale. You're better than this.

Tomorrow at this time my econ midterm will be over, I will be studying for my Naval Science midterm, and I will have my girlfriend with me for the first  time in over 2 months. Sounds like a plan. Now it's time for me to play Alabama's greatest hits album and shine my shoes while reading econ.