Cactus Codex

Pony blogger, actual cactus, artist, writer, computer scientist, and linguist. New Jersey / Pennsylvania | 21 | male, he/him/his | asexual hispanic | Cereus repandus, or Peruvian apple cactus

With the election coming up, I’d like to express one final piece of advice.

Vote with you conscious. Do the research and analysis. Vote for whoever you feel will better run this country and bring it to the future.

Whether it be Clinton’s shadow politics, Trump’s frat-boy revolution, Johnson’s don’t-give-a-shit policy, or Stein’s pandering pile of nonsense. I can’t judge you for wanting the same thing I do.

But given the ridiculous nature of this season, I’d like you to keep your choice in the back of your head. Keep it there for the next four years.

Note your satisfaction with your victory or attempts at such. Note if you ever regretted your choice. If you voted third party, note how your decision affected the turnout of the election. Could something else have been done? Is there still time to fix this?

Maybe there is. So please keep that in mind and good luck.

Man, sometimes you really underestimate how important a smartphone becomes to your life.

No quick access to weather when you wake up, no checking on bus schedules, no walking music, no mobile skype/discord/groupme chatting, etc.

And no camera scanner app to fetch a nice pic of this map in my meteorology textbook so I could do my homework due this afternoon. It’s the little things 8T

Err, someone’s going around submitting a music video (Crosa Rosa - Like a Lady) to people. It’s not malware or anything, it’s just a YouTube embed.

Probably some sort of promotion to get views? Who knows.

post-cactus:

So half of the classes I have to take next semester have all of their sections filled up and in waitlist mode.

I have 4 days left until I register.

I’m so fucked, it’s not even funny ;2;

UPDATE

Okay so the university has a lot of crosslisted courses, meaning that they span departments by name, but are really just the same course with the same material, and meeting room/time.

For example: The class about Elementary Probability is designated as STAT 318, and MATH 318.There’s only section available for next semester, with a total capacity of 50 enrolled and 35 waitlisted.

Now get this.

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The scheduling database has them listed separately with a footnote stating that the two are combined. The STAT entry is filled closed, but the MATH entry is still open with 6 seats still up for grabs.

IT’S THE SAME CLASS. WHAT THE HELL IS THE POINT.

So half of the classes I have to take next semester have all of their sections filled up and in waitlist mode.

I have 4 days left until I register.

I’m so fucked, it’s not even funny ;2;