Physics, Electronics, the Universe, and Me!

I ate some corndogs today. *waits for gasps of amazement*

I've been busy all day but still have LOTS to do so I'd best [try to] make this short.

Physics was first, the professor (the grandmotherly lady) really wanted to stress a couple of issues so she sounded almost the entire lecture as if she were reprimanding all of us. You SHOULD KNOW THIS! I cringed in my seat and begged for mercy. Okay, not really, but it felt like that's what I should have been doing. She's really nice though.

Then was the digital logic design class. I met with my group members and discussed the proposal I was going to hand in that afternoon, I went over a few questions that one of the team members had (this was afterward, I went to the computer lab with her to show her the thing because it was online). Then headed home to do a little Physics homework, print off my proposal for this afternoon, and take a quiz (online) for the Digital Logic class. It wasn't a super easy quiz but there was no time limit and of course, an open book (and more importantly open Google) sort of quiz so I finished in 22 minutes with 100%, which I was happy about. Some of the questions had to do with topics we'd not looked at yet and my previous training in this area really helped as did Google! I wonder how some of the other students will do.

It's funny, I've never considered myself to be that outspoken but everyone in the group seems to look to me as the leader as well as people in my other classes. In my Chemistry Lab, in the Physics lab, in every group I've essentially be the one who kind of keeps everything going and oversees it. I don't know if that's because I prefer to do it or not, I try to be willing to explain everything to everyone. For example, in the digital logic design lab that we had this afternoon, I pretty much linked everyone's circuits together and showed them how to get it going, and then after it was all done, showed the two ladies exactly how each part worked (I had some diagrams that I'd prepared before class for the proposal). Then explained how to work with binary numbers to one of the ladies and she was very appreciative. I guess no one has ever worked with them before. Do I feel like a leader? No.

After the digital logic design lab (which I just alluded to) it was about 5:10 so I headed over to the Physics building because I'd been told there was a help session for our Physics class at 5:30. There was indeed and the guy was there for just over two hours (until 7:40) explaining different things on the board, acting out friction and forces on the floor, he did an EXCELLENT job and I really, really liked him. There were eight students there at first (kind of sad considering how large the class is, it fills the auditorium) and only 5 stayed until the end. He just kept chugging along though! It was a time to ask questions but then he went over some material that we'd not covered yet (partially his own experiment to see how we did in comparision to others on that material) and some material we had covered. His name was Chuck and he had a very rich voice too, would make an excellent narrator for a Shadow mystery radio show...... Or something like that ;) Always thinking of voices!

Then I came home. So it's been a long day but profitable I believe. It's just about time for bed now and I'm a bit tired so I'll say goodnight. I am excited though to have received my set of B.B. Warfield's writings, they look interesting and not really that hard to read. At least at first glance, we'll see :)

One section from the biography of Pink (which I'm wondering how it's going to transition because it's talking about his Scofield Bible that he carried around, that he went to the Moody Bible school etc. but then I know from his writings that he was very reformed in belief) I thought was interesting. Pink was quoted as saying, about a Catholic Priest who worked in a camp where he was at:
"With whom we got aquainted. He volunteered to give us Scripture for every Popish dogma and practice, and when we put him to the test (as we did, again and again) we were amazed and awed by the subtle manner in which he misappropriated the Word." This demonstrated to Pink the uselessness of arguing about divine things and it also confirmed him in his view of the vital importance of possessing a deep and accurate knowledge of Scripture.

I just thought it was interesting how yes, some people can grossly distort Scripture. The principle that Scripture interprets Scripture is immensely important!