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Psychology != Math

[ rakaur on Wed Oct 19 at 12:58 PM // category: lccc, school ]

Apparently. they’ve been lying to us all this time. Pregnancy isn’t really nine months, it’s ten. Or, at least, according to my Psychology instructor, it’s ten. Her entire lecture today was based around “nine months is a lie!” Well, get some paper and do the math, you dumb bitch.

She claims that pregnancy is 10 months because “it’s 40 weeks, and 40 weeks has to be 10 months because there’s 4 weeks in a month.”

Any idiot can figure out that, since there are 7 days in a week, and “four weeks in a month,” seven times four is 28. There’s only one month of the year with 28 days. So, gee, let me think, I’m guessing a month is slightly longer than four weeks. Just slightly enough to make her “40 weeks = 10 months” statement absolute bullshit. I thought anyone with half a neuron floating around could figure out this fairly basic caldendar fact.

Since there are different days in different months, the duration of pregnancy can only be estimated or averaged. For the purposes of this conversation, we’re going to take the mean (that means “average”). There are 12 months in a year. Seven of those months have 31 days, four of those months have 30 days, and one of those months has 28 days. Add in a quarter of a day to account for leap years, and we get our 365.25 days to a year.

31(7) + 30(4) + 28 + 0.25 = 365.25

If we take the average of that, we end up with a mean of 30.4375 days in every month.

365.25 / 12 = 30.4375

Now, she claims that pregnancy is 40 weeks, but she’ll be damned if she’ll cite a source. Forty weeks is 280 days.

40(7) = 280

According to the National Library of Medicine, the mean pregnancy length ranges from 280.6 days to 283.6 days. So, we’ll take the mean of those two to get an average pregnancy length of 282.1.

280.6 + 283.6 = 564.2
564.2 / 2 = 282.1

Using our average days in a month of 30.4375, we can easily figure that pregnancy is in fact, on average, 9.26817248459959 months, or 40.3 weeks.

282.1 / 30.4375 = 9.26817248459959
282.1 / 7 = 40.3

QED, bitch.

She was wrong. Way wrong. Even if you round up, it’s still only 9.3 months. She had her duration of 40 weeks pretty close to right, so she had the right information, she just sucks at even the most basic of math.

I mean, this wouldn’t piss me off normally, I’d just write her off as a fucktard. However, she’s teaching this shit to kids as if it’s the truth, when really, she’s just a moron.

I guess my only hope is that a vast majority of people are blessed with the ability to do basic arithmetic. That hope is fairly shallow.

-- rakaur // 2005.10.19 @ 12:58 PM

No Blog for Time

[ rakaur on Tue Oct 18 at 11:02 PM // category: eastgate, games, lccc, life, nikki, relationships, school, technology, work ]

Let me apologize to my ~0 readers about the lack of updates. No, wait, never mind.

I’ve been busy. School full time plus work part time plus pregnant girlfriend amounts to about a 130% demand on my time. My schedule goes something like this:

Yeah, kind of sucks. When I actually have free time it’s mostly spent playing games. Which brings me to my next point.

So, Doom 3 sucks. It’s interesting for about two minutes, scary the first three times Monster X jumps out from Dark Place Y in Dark Hallway Z, and then pretty much boring. Dark hallways, stupid monsters, stupid plot, stupid levels. I can tell Carmack picked up on Halo’s policy of “instead of making interesting mission objectives, we’ll just make one that’s like ‘find the flashlight’ and make a maze of a level so that they have to wander around for ~24 days until they find the super secret spot.” Asshole. Goldeneye and other 007 games are the only ones I’ve ever played that actually have fun mission objectives that consist of more than “find this one spot in this one map.”

Yeah I was going to make this longer but I’m bored with it now.

-- rakaur // 2005.10.18 @ 11:02 PM

The Way You Wish I Was

[ rakaur on Mon Aug 29 at 11:53 PM // category: lccc, life, nikki, relationships, school ]

I wish I had more to talk about on here… I miss writing (not so much now that I’m in a writing class… which is the worst class ever).

Haven’t had much work now that school’s in. The theater is very seasonal, and is only open half the time while school’s in, so I get less than half the hours, so less than half the pay I’m used to. I’m looking for another job to supplement this. So, I’ll be working two jobs, and going to school full time. Good times.

Another thing about school… I wish I knew what I was there for. I have absolutely no idea what to do with my life. I find a lot of things interesting, but nothing enough to spend my life doing.

Speaking of spending my life doing things… my girlfriend and I are getting pretty serious. We’ve only been together seven weeks, and I know it’s crazy, but I quite thoroughly love her. I didn’t think I would at first… and I kept myself from falling for her really quickly because it’s screwed me over so many times in the past. I took my feelings slow with her… and I think it might be for real. It’s causing me quite a delimma though.

You see, I figured I’d be alone for, you know, ever. And, as such, I’ve envisioned my future alone. No girlfriend, certianly no wife, family, etc. Nikki wants all of these things. Marriage, kids, the American family. I generally hate everything about that picture. I was raised in that enviornment… and I hated it. We as a society have some strange conceptions about how things should be for everyone, and people take it for granted, and I hate that. I hate the idea of not questioning how things should be. Why should I get married? Yeah, I love her, and I want to spend time with her, but what’s a piece of paper matter? I think for her it’s more of a religious thing, and she wants me to be religious… but I’m not, and I never will be. That’s just who I am. No matter how much I love her, I can’t just start being hardcore Luthern. I don’t care what she believes in, that’s her business, but she seems to think that if I don’t start being religious then our relationship isn’t going to last. That’s a shame. I’d do anything to keep that from happening, and to keep us together… but I can’t change my fundamental beliefs just because she wants me to. It just doesn’t work that way.

I’m a questioning, anti-conformist, anti-sheep. I hate society because they all act the same. I’m a hardcore think-for-yourself person. She’s not. She’s a believe-everything-that’s-been-fed-to-me person. Those two tend to clash. I love her. If it turns out, down the road, that we’re still together and marriage is a viable option, I’d do it. I’d even have a religious wedding, to appease her and her family. However, I wouldn’t suddenly want a religious family and lots of kids. That’s not me. These things are fundamental differences between us, and we can’t ignore them forever. Eventually, sooner or later, they’re going to come back and it’s going to end badly, and that’s the last thing I want. I can’t lose her, but I can’t change my entire personality to stay with her. If we love each other, we’ll find a way. If she values her religion over our relationship, she’ll break up with me, some day.

I love her. I won’t lose her over something as stupid as religion. I’m tolerant of her beliefs. I don’t think she is of mine (or my lack thereof). The ball’s in her court. I don’t care what she believes in, so long as she doesn’t try to force it on me. I wouldn’t do that, and I can only hope she won’t.

I guess we’ll see.

-- rakaur // 2005.08.29 @ 11:53 PM

Welcome to Junior High

[ rakaur on Fri Aug 26 at 03:43 PM // category: lccc, school ]

College sucks.

College sucks.

-- rakaur // 2005.08.26 @ 03:43 PM

Skewl

[ rakaur on Sun Aug 21 at 02:04 PM // category: lccc, school ]

Fuck, I have class tomorrow.

-- rakaur // 2005.08.21 @ 02:04 PM

College Dreams

[ rakaur on Fri May 06 at 06:10 PM // category: kori, lccc, life, relationships, school ]

So, I got scheduled for college. My schedule’s pretty cool. I only go three days a week and I get out at 12:50. Originally it was 11:50, but some you lose.

Monday, Wednesday, Friday, I have: Physics 130 (8:30 - 9:45), Psychology 131 (10:00 - 10:50), English 131 (11:00 - 11:50), Math 116 (12:00 - 12:50); and, instead of Physics 130 on Friday I have the Physics 130 Lab (8:00 - 9:50).

Not much to write about other than that. Haven’t been able to sleep well because of the dreams. I thought it’d get better eventually, but it just keeps getting worse. I passed her on the stairs today, and I could have sworn she said hello to me, but I know she didn’t. Some other people have been talking bad about her around me in my Sociology class. I guess they figure since she hates me I hate her and so I’ll gossip with them. I still find myself defending her, and even though she hates me, I have absolutely nothing bad to say about her.

I don’t know what anything means.

-- rakaur // 2005.05.06 @ 06:10 PM

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