Wow, what a long day

Today:
9-10 job search, made the big step asking contact about certain job that I was sorta hoping i would get, eventually turned down but was offered a referral to another company! sweet!
10-10:50 learned about global warming. Lots of graphs, pictures, about the global doom that is facing us. Also! To illustrate the famous correlation is not equal to causation argument the guest speaker put up a number of pirates versus global temperature graph. This further strengthens my argument about the mystery that is the growing collective fascination with pirates? Why?!!!
11:00-12:15 learned about the Kozmetzky Global Collaboratory, which is a "collaborative think tank" trying to generate new ways of creating global shared prosperity, particularly generating innovative ways of helping the third world. The speaker was very persuasive, but very VAGUE. It was exciting though. Saving the world is always stimulating.
12:30 - 2:30 looked at people in Tressider specifically people getting drinks out of the coolers. Noticed a really weird thing. People often liked to shake their bottles of beverages when they picked them out. There seems to be no reason for doing this, just a quirk a lot of people seemed to share. The general manager came up to us being suspicious of what were exactly doing staring at the soda coolers for 2 hours. She ended up giving us a ton of information about product placement and marketing. Quite illuminating!
2:30 - 3:00 : synthesized need findings in Tressider
3:00 - 5:15 : Learned about the 2 by 2 matrix method of classifying things. We used this first to classify: Majors The two axes were "difficulty" and "usefullness". Quite controversial findings I would say. I tend to have a more egalitarian view of things, so this discussion sort of disheartened me, especially when people were quite mean about the humanities. But alas, such is life.
We then proceeded to perform the same methods on Cereal! Prof bought in about 10 brands of cereal,that at least was not a very loaded subject to me.
6:00 Had dinner. Was quite awkward. But the buttermilk squash soup was yummy.

7:00 - 8:00 Went to hear Douglas Hofstadter talk! Douglas Hofstadter!!! The hero of my youth. That was exciting. He taught about "Analogical reasoning as basis for cognition". He essentially built up an argument that analogies were the very building blocks of our thinking processes. I'm not sure if I quite agree, or follow, or care, but he was quite a charismatic speaker. I especially enjoyed the animated slides (yes no powerpoint!) and funny anecdotes
8:00- 10:00 did my laundry and searched for more companies to apply to