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Real communists are up at 3:30 in the morning because they just finished editing the minutes from the previous meeting. Real communists will also make it to class on time tomorrow, because that’s just how real communists roll.

Pictured: Real communists, rolling… to their programming lecture.

I was met with a challenge today, and I don’t think it can be beaten, but please, try! It revolves around the card game “War.” Is there a way that the cards can be dealt so that the game never ends? I can think of a few ways for the game to tie, but I’ve all but given up on the eternity scenario.

Alright.

I just returned from my last exam for the year, and I need to vent.

I just finished my exam in a course called Examen Facultatum, the study of social science and ethics. If you are one of the people who have talked to me about this in the past weeks, I will have complained about how mindnumbingly dull this course is, but that is beside the point.

You see, this course, like all the others, gives 10 study points. One year in Norwegian college = 60 study points. So. I just came from a 4 hour exam, which I finished in 7 minutes. And to top it off, I am afraid that I wrote TOO MUCH! We were given a list of about 80 questions from the curriculum. Some general, like what is an empirical study, and some specific, like what does Thomas Kuhn say about scientific revolutions. These 80 questions our lecturer went through in the final lecture, and he told us that we would get about 8 of these questions as the exam.

So what have I been doing the past few days? Memorizing 80-ish questions. On my exam i got 9 questions. !0 minutes later I was finished. I then spent 20 minutes picking my nose and farting, then left.

What the fuck! Is this shit what passes for academia these days? I am aware of the fact that the college in Bodø is a B-school. One of my lecturers said so himself. But come on, if you keep shit like THIS, you will always stay a shit school.

At college you are supposed to understand your curriculum, and be able to use it. Not just repeat simple answers like a fucking robot!

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Greetings, dear reader.

Recently there has been some entries by me and others on plans for life, stuff like that. Well, I am going to follow this trail for one more entry, namely this one.

All the major decisions I have made for my life have been made in the blink of an eye, without thinking about it. I think that’s why I never had any real plans for my life, I don’t really like having my future planned out. I like waking up thinking that today, something can happen that will alter my future forever.

When I decided to leave Bodø (my birthtown) for Stavanger (where Burnie is), I was heartbroken (like, had JUST broken up), and decided “what the hell. that 5 year course looks interesting enough”. Now I am excited as hell about moving there! Also, today I was simply walking from my car to the cafe place where I sit, drink coffee and read for my exam. I walked past a tattoo parlor. So what the hell, I figured I’d walk in and get an estimate as to how much a tattoo I’ve been wanting to get will cost. I did, and it was way cheaper than expected, so then and there, in the middle of the sentence, I decided to get a session.

So the 12th of may, I am getting a pretty darn huge tattoo on my back. It will be awesome, and picture will follow!

Live life in the now, like I do. It’s awesome!!

Vegard