Today me and two of my roommates went on a run to East Rock Park in Hamden, CT. I think it's something like 7 miles total, so not too bad. I did realize just how out of cardio-shape I got over Christmas break. It was a struggle to keep pace with my roommate, who is a collegiate rower and runs about 2 hours on the treadmill every day. I made it, but it wasn't pretty...at all. On the other hand, the park was really nice and pretty.

My roommates and I decided to do it every Sunday afternoon, so we can all stay in shape. And then of course we run lots of 1 or 2 mile runs throughout the week. But lemme tell ya, doing longer runs gets you in much better shape. 

So anyways, I just got done reading a few chapters on dead reckoning and proper maneuvering board procedures from the Watch Officer's Guide. Gotta love navigation class. 

I got the offer to go underway on the USCGC Eagle...the Coast Guard Academy training vessel that is the former Nazi naval training schooner that we captured after the war. It would be over spring break, and I just can't reconcile with myself taking time out of my spring break with my family. It would be lots of fun to get underway on the only steel-hulled sailship in American military service. I do suspect that we will an opportunity to do it again next year or junior or senior year. Either way, it's neat to get the invitation. I guess a lot of people would love to go out on a ship and be an old-school crusty sailor for a few days. 

So recently there has been a lot of controversy over the Yale administration shutting down a website made by students to compare courses offered by a number of ratings, including professor ratings and workload. This website, before shut down, has resulted in classes given an incredibly low workload ranking to fill up with 200+ students. Yes, even Yalies love an easy class. Yale blocked the website from their servers and decided to cite copyright issues and "malicious intent" supposedly as reasoning. The funny thing is, our student programmers are much better than the administration's programmers, and today a student released a new web extension that uses Yale's official (much less helpful) course listing website against itself and rigs the website to rank classes according to workload and professor ratings. I really love the ingenuity of our computer science majors.