Septermber 13th, 2015 - When You're Fed Up With UNIV100

     The following is an assignment from my UNIV100 class at UMD. The question posed was: "how was you week... What was the high point? What was the low point?"
     This is my response to that question:

In the general sense of the word, "mediocre" would seem apt as far as describing my week, if we consider how my week was as a summation of all of the positive and negative events and occurrences during the duration of the past seven days. If I were to go into details, I would feel obligated to include primarily negative data points towards my answer, probably because, due to a psychological concept known as The Hedonistic Thermometer (as described by Barry Schwartz in his book, The Paradox of Choice), wherein it is stated that the human adjusts to happiness quickly, establishing that level of happiness as the base layer of judging mood and emotion, such to the effect of my only remembering the bad things that have happened in the past week. Despite this unfortunate per-disposition, I will attempt to objectively relay my week. The high of my week was probably receiving my fencing epee in the mail despite the hassle it took to receive it in the university postage system, and being able to use it in fencing practice. The low point of the week is definitely more of a competition, with the Final Four consisting of missing my Friday Physics lecture because I slept in, being crushed under the ever growing wave of homework that primarily involves reading copious amounts of text with a precise eye, at roughly 20-40 pages a night, the resultant social issues of having an intrinsically pungent room (what's to be expected when two guys live in one room?), and a more general existential crisis that revolves around the fact that I came to the University of Maryland to study engineering, and yet the majority of my time is being spent appeasing the malignant gods of the humanities.

     I hope you all have a lovely week.
DFTBA