David’s Ramblings

This Friday was Georgia Tech’s Annual Six Flags day. The school rents out the park and sells tickets at a discount to students. It’s a pretty sweet deal, $13 for a ticket that’d normally cost $30-$40. Plus, the lines are typically shorter than those you’d find on a normal day.

I love roller-coasters, and Six Flags has some good ones. Unfortunately, this year there were a lot of other students thinking the same thing. The lines for the Batman and Superman rides, two of the better coasters in the park, were hideously long. Like rumors of people waiting two and a half hours long. We opted not to risk waiting in those two lines for hours on end.

It probably didn’t help that the park was short a couple of rides they had previous years, but the unfortunate truth of the matter was that the park was a bit overcrowded this year as opposed to the last. There were long lines even for the rides that last year had practically no lines (mainly because people think they suck) – like the Ninja.

It wasn’t all bad though – we got in line for the Goliath relatively early, only waiting about an hour for what is arguably one of the park’s best rides. We also experienced pretty short lines for the Cyclone and the Scream Machine, two old wooden monstrosities that cause major headaches from the extreme rickety vibrations. Awesome, but also nauseating. The new metal rides are so much smoother, but they don’t give off that whole could-break-apart-and-kill-you-at-any-moment vibe.

We made our last ride of the night the Georgia Scorcher. This ride was probably my favorite, but the designer of the ride is undoubtedly the most spiteful person to walk the face of the planet. The seats are designed to hold you in by lifting you up by the groin and holding down your shoulders, so either the designer hates men or has a very kinky fetish. I’m talking major discomfort if you strap in wrong.

All in all, I’ll probably go again, but this next time I hope Six Flags has a few more rides running or Tech decides to sell a few less tickets.

Oh, and apparently everyone decides to go to Steak and Shake after Six Flags, so don’t think you’re the only one brilliant enough to come up with that idea, or you’ll be stuck waiting an hour to get your shakes.

Nothing sucks more than a math test you haven’t studied enough for. Except maybe a math test you haven’t studied enough for that starts at 8 am. We had our first combo test today. It wasn’t quite as bad as I expected it to be, but it definitely was painful.

Combinatorics is basically advanced counting. You wouldn’t expect it to be as complicated as it is. But when you start talking about strings of length 20 with 4 t’s and distinct beginning and ending letters, it gets kind of tricky.

Of course, I didn’t think it wasn’t necessarily hard, it was just too long. There wasn’t enough time to finish everything to the extent I would have liked. You can tell a test is too long when there’s not that random guy who finishes in 30 minutes and makes you feel like you’re completely retarded.

Luckily, when a test makes you feel down, there’s always a way to make it feel better – IHOP. It’s been a long time since I’ve been, and man did I need it. All the stress goes away when you bite into a fruit filled crepe. Yum, yum.

And on top of that, there’s the mid-season finale of Burn Notice, a show I’ve grown rather fond of. It may have started crappy, but today has ended pretty well.

I went and got a job.