Midterms are Done
Posted by officerincivvies on June 21, 2009
I guess this post is going to be a big collection of thoughts on random subjects, this is a blog after all.
A while back I made a post on some basic gym ettiquete but I think it is time that I come up with a new updated list of gym etiquette, maybe people will start following it.
- After you’re done with a machine, reset the weights. It’s just common respect and courtesy to the next user.
- Wipe the sweat off the machine when you are done. I don’t not like being covered in a plethora of people’s sweet when I am working out.
- Don’t bang weights together, it is annoying to everyone else working out to hear how you don’t have control over your weights, and it damages the dumbells as well.
- Don’t grunt and groan as you are working out, I do not want to know what you sound like when you crank one out.
- Put your damn weights away when you are done, I should not have to stand around for ten minutes waiting to use weights and then finding out that you are done with them.
- Don’t spend more than an hour or so in the gym, I should not be able to do my entire workout if I started after you and am able to finish before you. You are not gaining anything you are just tearing more muscle than you can heal.
- Don’t go to the gym everyday and work on the same muscle groups, again you are not giving yourself time to heal, you are only hurting yourself.
- Don’t bother trying to lift more than you can, it is unsafe, you are going to hurt yourself, and it is much more beneficial to do less weights but more reps. You need to mix up your hypertrophy with strength conditioning.
I am sure I could give more but those are the main ones that bug me right now.
Friday I had two midterms, CMPT 383 and CMPT 413. Unlike previous years, and I started doing this last semester, I properly studied for both of them and I don’t think I did too bad. All week I had been studying for them so I was well prepared. Last weekend was pretty epique though. On Friday Jesse, his friend Anton and my roommate Robin went to Lighthouse Point in West Van where we did some rock climbing on the side of a cliff on the ocean. It was pretty sweet.
Saturday night I headed downtown where I have never seen such weird shit. It was some random Anime Convention so there were so many people dressed up in the most ridiculous shit. I also met this cool homeless guy who had a sign that said, “I bet you $1 that you will read this sign.” Since I don’t skip out on bets that I lose I gave him a dollar. He told me another line that he uses, “Lend me $20? I will pay you back later.” Sunday morning I went out to the valley where I rode my bike around Barnston Island between Surrey and Pitt Meadows. I also walked across the Golden Ears bridge as it was open for the first day, but only to foot traffic.
Back to CRIM 413, hours before the midterm someone posts on First Class (since it is a distance ed course) asking:
If we have to memorize all these terms and Islamic terminology for the mid-term I’m gonna start my own revolution. Is it necessary to know all this? I can’t even pronounce most of it let alone memorize and rewrite it on paper…
Now this is a fourth year class, and since it is criminology all students have to be declared meaning they have done a number of crim classes. I was completely shocked on how much of an idiot this guy, Michael Lis, was as this is what we have had to do in every criminology class so far. I pointed this out to him and his response:
I’ve taken more crim classes than you so don’t be smug
I really wanted to say that “repeats don’t count” so I chose not to argue back. Yet other people decided that it was completely unacceptable to attack him. I can’t believe people actually agreed with him that we should not have to memorize terms.
Idiots…
