So here's the situation. We, the entire physics class, are all failing. I've had the rumor confirmed that the prof is either quitting or getting fired after this semester, so basically he can keep on screwing all of us over and not get screwed over himself (I believe it's that he's getting fired for his poor teaching ability, I can't remember how my source put it). I have two friends in there with me who are in a couple other classes with me. Jordan, a former top ten student in his school, never below a 3.5 in high school, is withdrawing ASAP so he can keep his basketball eligibility working for him. Joe, another top 10% in his class, a freaking genius, had said in the past that he wanted to follow through to the bitter end. Unfortunately, however, if we take this F, our GPAs will go from 4.0s to 2.5s - definitely not a good thing. So I wanna know what you guys think. Drop it? Or stick it out? (I've already decided my course of action, but if someone makes a good argument for the opposition, I'm willing to listen)

Modhist paper number two is complete. Booyah.

I'd like to pull a quote from the book I mentioned last time, The Virtue of Selfishness, that I read today in the laundry room.

The moral purpose of a man's life is the achievement of his own happiness. This does not mean he is indifferent to all men, that human life is of no value to him and that he has no reason to help others in an emergency. But it does mean that he does not subordinate his life to the welfare of others, that he does not sacrifice himself for their needs, that the relief of their suffering is not his primary concern, that any help he gives is an exception, not a rule, an act of generosity, not of moral duty, that it is marginal and incidental--as disasters are marginal and incidental in the course of human existance, and that values, not disasters, are the goal, the first concern and the motive power of his life.

Lovin' it. If you think THAT'S interesting, you should read the REST of the essay.

Guys, you might wanna bookmark this one.