Statistics, Spaghetti, and Squid at UT Tyler

"The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence." ~ Rabindranath Tagore

"Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study hard. Be evil." ~ Some T-Shirt I saw once, I think. maybe it was a bumper sticker? The point is, get those brain's a'crack'n and build the next anti-cancer drug. Or a death-ray powered by sharks. Just keep studying!

    Humans are creatures who are capable of great variety of skills including ( but not limited to! ) making sense of the senseless. We are capable of looking into the most bizarre labyrinths of madness ( the plot of Lost, the entire Affordable Care Act bill, or the ingredients list for Big Red soda ) and finding patterns; we look at that which we can't understand and we try to see meaning there. 

The 4:00am Fire Drill

One of the perks of living on campus? 4 am fire alarm drills. 
  This occurred maybe a week or two ago but got shoved under the rug because I was still disgruntled about it until recently. The good thing about this event was it happened on a Saturday night. So I didn't go all HULK SMASH on the closest object. If it had been on Sunday,Tuesday or Thursday that would be a totally different story because I have a 8:00 class and I need all the sleep I can get. 

Here's the play by play:
 I wasn't wearing any pants when I went to bed the night of this fire alarm. So when my reflexes kicked in after hearing the fire alarm. I jumped out of bed. This action knocked my phone on the floor. I grabbed the closest pair of pants I could find, which were jeans, put them on and waited for my roommates to get up and went to the stairwell. The fire alarms are very sensitive at Patriot Village.
 Ironically, my boyfriend's ex-roommate cooked three pounds of bacon on a griddle last semester and DIDN'T set off the alarm. Though every open-able window and door was open to move all the smoke and yucky-ness out of the apartment.
Back to the dreaded night, there wasn't really a fire but smoke of some sort tricked the fire alarm to go off. We all headed back to bed. Between my roommates, it was decided that I had the best fight or flight reactions and that when I was standing in the hallway waiting for my roommates looked extremely creepy. 
  Funny thing, that next day the fire alarm went off at the second building when it was raining. 
So. yeah. Fire alarms are awesome in the sense that if an actual fire occurs, the chance of you getting out alive is higher. The increased sensitivity of fire alarms when there is not a fire can be annoying. 
        Things like this occur. You can get mad about them or just go with the flow. I can say that I have experienced a 4:00 am fire drill. Have you?