D... 5...

What about the title? D? What D? Well, D is after C... that's what it is. Or maybe I should put 5, since I'm very possibly venturing into P&C actuarial, which uses the number, instead of letters.

This following joke is kinda relevant to what's on my mind now. Making a decision on what's after college...

From Daily Yiggles
"College Grad's Starting Salary
Reaching the end of a job interview, the Human Resources Person asked a young engineer who was fresh out of MIT, "What starting salary were you thinking about?" The Engineer said, "In the neighborhood of $125,000 a year, depending on the benefits package." The interviewer said, "Well, what would you say to a package of 5 weeks vacation, 14 paid holidays, full medical and dental, company matching retirement fund to 50% of salary, and a company car leased every 2 years - say, a red Corvette?" The Engineer sat up straight and said, "Wow! Are you kidding?" The interviewer replied, "Yeah, but you started it." "

So, finally, I'm finding life. Finding a life of my own other than studying for the actuarial exam, which I finally took this morning. If I were to fail this exam, I only have myself to blame, for procrastinating. Instead of the advised 400-hours of studying, I did about 200 hours. And, instead of following my plan, of studying from Aug til Nov, I did start in August, just to stop for 2 months, before I finally picked it up again in late Sept. After the exam, my brain was really fried... I found myself unable to read a paragraph longer than 3 sentences. Really!!! But, it's over now!!!

Also, in between classes, I had about 20 minutes, and so, I took a walk to Starbucks, and asked the barista for something strong... and he recommended me a ice black eye. For those new to Starbucks lingo:

REDEYE = Cup of Coffee with 1 shot of espresso
BLACK EYE = Cup of Coffee with 2 shots
DEAD EYE = Cup of Coffee with 3 shots

And after that, I can feel my heart beating hard on my chest. Maybe I should try the dead eye next time. :)

After the class, I went to the computer lab to start working on my Stats assignment, due tmr, wait it's 12.11am now, so, it's due today. And I'm going no where with it yet. And, at the same time, I went to ActuarialOutpost.com, and check on the PAK (popular answer key) of the exam I took. Damn, actuaries are efficient. As they can only start discussing about the exam after 5pm, they had a PAK of a sample size of more than 60 by 6pm. I compared my answer to it, and guess what?!?! I'm borderlining passing again!!! At the moment, I'm assuming that I failed the exam, so that I won't be disappointed when the official result is announced... and I will be surprised if I were to pass it. Yup. My defense mechanism: disappointment averse...

Really. Taking exam during a semester is really much tougher than I expected. All the other stuff going on really make it much tougher. Especially if you are crazy college football fans... coz, that really makes ur week a day shorter. Be it home game or away game, it doesn't matter. And not to mention all the assignments and midterms peppered around the exam.Oh yar, studying for actuarial exam is never green. I opted the lighter and more condensed study guide, and it's 1200 pages thick.... There's another study guide by a different author... and it's 4000+ pages...Sorry for killing all the trees!!!

So, finally, after C, I can finally get on with my life. I finally realized how much I had been sacrificing to make time to study for the exam. The 4-5 hours sleep per day on average. All the tv series. The buying and playing of Wii. The weather and the falling leaves. The running (you really can't run when you don't have enough time to sleep). And not to mention, the joy of doing nothing...And also, all the invitations to bars and parties...

So, back to my life...What's better way to kick off your life than to do 3-week worth of laundry? LOL...

And, also, making plans for holidays, and also, writing emails that I didn't get to write. And also, cherish everything around me more.

So, all those words... BORING rite?

Here are some pictures...
An ice cold brewski...
Also, when i was studying, I had quite some tea... 4-6 teabags a day... And hence, I had to get a new box of it. And, because it's a box of 100 teabags, and there's only 3 rows in the packaging, they got me wondering, how do they separate 100 teabags into 3 rows? Intriguing? At first, I think, well, must be 33-34-33... or any of the 3 combinations of that. So, I counted them, and to my surprise, it was 34-32-34... Interesting...
Also, while taking that shot, I find it to be a rather background for my OSU at Michigan football ticket. Well, according to market price, this ticket is fetching USD$300... but well, I'm not sure I'm willing to sell it at that price. Yeah... I'm serious about it.

Well... the fact that it's gonna be my very last home football game added a lot of sentimental value to that game. And, I'm hoping that we will pull off an upset against the national top-ranked team, and beat OSU for the first time in many years... and to top it all off, a chance to rush the field...All these possibilities really add up to a lot...

Maybe $500? Maybe...