Plagiarism, Selfishness, and Overreacting

Let's first address the overreacting: I get it, classmates. You want to do well. This is grad school. *BUT* when you the teacher is giving you an overview of the semester and briefly describes her still-tweaking-with-new-midterm, DON'T FREAK OUT. Don't ask questions like what happens if someone else checks out all the books from the library, or what happens if nobody completes the required number of questions. It's going to be OK, I promise. If you can't answer the question within 2 minutes, you probably need to move on to the next one anyway. Also, today is the first day - no reason to panic now. Geez!

Second, Plagiarism because it's quick. At trivia, one team thought they were the poo because their name was "What's the big deal? It's just another black family moving into Government Housing." - However, we found hard evidence that this name was stolen from the interwebz.

Luckily, the less tacky (??) name of "Ted Kennedy knows how to Celebrate" won the 5 bonus points.

Third - SELFISHNESS!! For whatever reason Pluckers was packed tonight. We requested a table for 11 (which we needed like 15-oops) but they evoked the half-your-party-needs-to-be-here rule, so we grabbed the tables when we had 5 (enough to seat 11). But as more people came, we realized we needed more chairs. They ran out of folding chairs, so we were 3 short. The people behind us were hoarding 2 folding chairs for an hour and no butts were in them, so finally I asked (after sharing a chair for awhile) if we could use it until their party came. "They'll be here soon," they insisted, but a few min later donated a chair to our cause. So they're cool. Next these girls behind us saved 2! chairs - which nobody ever sat in! I even asked politely about them and she said, "No, we have more people coming." as I continued to STAND through trivia. Pictured is their table with said chairs. Note the girl is eating while I took the pic- AWESOME! Their friends got there around round 5. Luckily some other people left, so by then we had gotten the extra table we had requested.

We ended up in a 3-way tie for 2nd, which led to a wing-off. Steve put up a great effort (especially since no one else would step up to the plate!), but unfortunately we didn't end up winning. Some sauce splashed in his eye on wing #1 so that put a damper on things. Still, way to go Steve! I like to think this picture captures the essence of the wing off.