Reasons To Be At The AC Nielsen Center #245 & #246

There are 21 students in the AC Nielsen Center. 12 first-years and 9 second-years. All the first-years have accepted internship offers, 8 of the second-years have accepted offers for full-time positions, the 9th is in round six of interviews with Very Important Consulting Company (TM).

The first years are going to Wrigley's, General Mills, Abbott Laboratories (x2), Johnson & Johnson (x3), Vistakon, Drum Corps International, Philip Morris USA, Miller Brewing, and Goodyear.

Second-years have accepted positions at Vistakon, Abbott Laboratories x2, General Mills, Kraft/Oscar Mayer, Burke, P&G, and PepsiCo/Tropicana.

Keep in mind, this is three months BEFORE graduation.

The second part of of this is that every single one of these students is on a full ride. Either from a scholarship, or a project assistantship. They don't like to guarantee PAs for everyone, but just keep those numbers in mind.

$160.80

I got caught speeding on the way home today. 40 mph in a 25 mph zone. Most of the road was a 40 zone, but I just accelerated too quickly after leaving the University zone. I don't think that'll get me off though. In addition, I had just had a beer before leaving so my breath smelled of alcohol. Which meant a field sobriety test, followed by a blowing into the little machine with the numbers. All in sub-freezing temperatures in my suit without a coat. Fortunately my blood alcohol score was 0.024%, the limit is 0.08%.

Still sucks though.

I Could Have Been Able To Tell The Time In Style!!

#2: A Fortis B-42 Pilot Professional Chronograph. In case you're wondering a chronograph is a posh name for a watch.

Start of a New Series

With the latest request for funds to pay for the war in Iraq raising the total cost to a whopping $267 billion. I had a great idea for a new series for the blog. Rather than a single post with a t-shirt saying "I paid $267 billion for an invasion of an oil rich dictatorship and all I got was anarchy and an almost inevitable civil war" I figured I could get a whole series of posts out of the fact that the war has cost the average taxpayer (so far) $2,083. So that's $4,166 for your average old-skool nuclear family.

So the series is this...

Things my family could have bought from ebay or yahoo shopping instead of a civil war in the Middle East.

#1: A New Pride Mobility Jazzy 1113 Power Chair with a top speed of 4 mph. (I've heard you can get these babies up to 6 if you mess with the air intake valve but I wouldn't recommend it.)

We'll start with this.