Misha

Ok, sorry about that, Misha, Всё равно и я тебя люблю.

Hey Misha. SHUT UP!

Ok, misha stop, you don't need to criticize me and say that everything is my fault, yes given that I missed the deadline to switch classes, yeah that was stupid, but it is the schools fault that their Russian program is defunct, and also their fault that they say they accept IB and then claim they don't. So ask me what is going on instead of assuming what is going on, the first three letters of "assuming" are ass, so stop it. And I am not trying to yell at you or anything, but in this case yes the University is against me, and I am stupid for not researching more, and not knowing the deadlines for switching classes. But that is all, had I known that the Russian program at UWM sucked, then I would have gone after Madison a lot harder.

Worst Day Ever

Today I had to drop Russian, a language I love so much, because the professor is against me, and so is the UWM administration, Joe doesn't even want to follow UW standards of placement when it comes to me in Russian, so today I dropped it. And it is the first time in 5 years I have not had Russian, and I feel as though I am now missing a part of myself. Which is not so cool. I wish Joe would just have realized what he was doing to my love of Russian, and I just hope that possibly transferring to Madison or going to Russia can fix what Joe has done to me. He has, unless I find another way, messed up my future in Russian. Mostly because Majoring in Russian at UWM means I have to get 26 credits past the level of Russian I am in now. And 6 in Literature, making a major in both Russian and Business impossible, without going into debt up to my eyes.

So I have been forced by a Russian professor of a defunct Russian program to drop Russian, I hated the class, but will always love the language, the people and the country. So WTF Joe, learn when people are pissed at you, and get something right. You are not even a tenured professor, you just got your doctorate a few years ago, and got lucky with an Adjunct Professorship.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

Wisconsin

I must once again congratulate WI on being afraid of snow, I did not have class today because of 8 inches of snow, given that that is quite a bit of snow, and as I write this we are getting about an inch an hour, so more will be here. But in MN school would not be canceled if it were absolute zero with 200 mph winds and hell had frozen over, while WI cancels life if there is more than 4 inches of snow at an inopportune time, the snow here started to fall heavily around 4:30 AM today, thus making plowing hard for the people who had to get up to do it. And making class be canceled today. Yay, I shall no longer complain about the state of WI, just the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.

My Comments on the Super Bowl

In general I felt that the Super Bowl was not all that "super" I felt that the Patriots did not live up to the hype that was all around them. I also feel that this was Randy Moss' last real chance to get a ring. But whatever, the super bowl is stupid anyway, american football is stupid.

Now a tournament that actually matters is Euro 2008 for Soccer, that will be a great tournament to watch, each game is as big as the Super Bowl and there are going to be like 40 games, possibly more, probably more. And one other thing about that tournament is that the Russian National Team will be playing. Anyone who would like to know more about the Russian National Futbol Team can check out this website, one link for y'all that ain't speak no Russian, and the other for those of us that are enlightened and can speak the language.

Russian:http://www.rusteam.permian.ru/
English:http://www.russiateam.com/

That is basically it, oh and Russia will be holding the final for Euro 2008, I think, at Luzhniki stadium in Moscow, seats like 90000 people.

"That is a vile and odious lie!" Stewie Griffin

Today in Russian

Today in Russian, I ended up not speaking with "Joe" and had to go to Criminal Justice. Joe wanted me to make another appointment with him, and speak to him about my "problem" and also was told again that I should not spend so much time emailing and more time with my cases. Ahhh, WTF dude, what is your problem. Learn when people are bored, and not "stupid" as you may think that I am. I just want to go to Russia. And also Joe thinks that nobody has ever seen Russia, he was describing Tchaikovsky theater in Moscow and making it seem like it was in the middle of the street. However it is not.

Hmmm. Russian Prof. Sucks.

Today I shall venture off to Russian Class to confront my newly pissed off Russian Professor. I sent him an email, which mom wrote, and he decided my arguments had now real validity, and therefore we will now end up in some form of a confrontation. As to what will happen, there are two and only two possibilities, he will acquiesce to my requests, and support me in my fight against the Hierarchy of UWM, or he will not, and therefore is not worth my time, to which I will seriously consider dropping Russian, and possibly going to St.Petersburg for school for the rest of school, or switching American Schools.

Why Russia is Better than America

First of all a lot of people think that Russia is a land of severe persecution and people suffer everywhere because of the tyrannical government. Oh wait that is America. Now as I have been to Russia I have seem first hand that it is no worse that America and even in some cases better. People there can live what used to be called the American Dream, there if you work hard you can actually become rich, and if not rich at least afford to live in an economy that is actually expanding. And has in effect been expanding since the mid 19th Century. While the US slowly falls, Russia is expanding, Russia is becoming a great nation once again.

While in Russia I did see poverty, and people who could not work, and obvious discrimination, however we have that in America to, just not as obvious. We have all the things that Russia does, the US says Russia is no longer a super-power, why then is our President afraid of what Vladimir Putin will do? There is are inherent differences between the two presidents, one pays attention to the media, partially because he controls it, but also because he cares what the people say and how they think he is doing as a president. Also this president is quite intelligent and hard-working. While Time Magazine was interviewing him for "Man of the Year" the interviewer had a series of three-four hour meetings with this president, and he did all of these interviews about very broad subjects both without any notes and very openly, as though he had nothing to hide. Also he has something like a 72% approval rating taken from a third-party poller from outside of Russia. Obviously one can come to the conclusion that this is not the US President, and obviously the Russian President Vladimir Putin. While the US President on the other hand hides everything he is doing, and also does not listen to what the people want, does not listen to media, and has also been quoted as saying something along the lines of "I am not a reality-based person, but more of a religion-based person" WTF!!! You cannot have a person lead what has been referred to as the strongest nation in the world who is not reality based. That is just insane.

And Bush will not do any interview or anything without advisors or a script or Condaleeza there to help him along. Given he may not be as stupid as he has been made out to be, he still has no clue what is going on day to day within his country. He could in no way carry on interviews without notes, or saying "I am going to have to check on that" or something like that.

I just find that Russia is given a bad rap here in the US because half of the people here still think it is the CCCP which it is not.

Obvious Illegal Profit

The last time I checked it was not the point of a state institution to make money, they are in effect non-profits. But the example I will give is that when I was accepted into the Dorm here at UWM, I was told I was going to have to pay nearly what tuition costs for three months in the Dorm, more than $4000, or roughly that. Now the University should not be trying to profit off of its students, it should be trying to break even. Not make money, now I understand trying to make enough to break even, but not to pay off the new dorms in one year, not all people in the US are worth millions of dollars, in fact most college students, as is popular belief, have no money. Thus the University is acting illegally and I just wish that the State would investigate, it would be hilarious. And it would also apply to my previous post if the State did indeed investigate.

UWM Sucks

In general one would think going to school would be at least enjoyable, while I do have classes that I particularly enjoy, some are less than enjoyable, both due to tension and general boredom. For example my Geography class is one of the classes where the general boredom idea apples, I am learning what lines of Longitude and Latitude are, ooh not like I never knew what those were before, not like I already know how to read maps from my days at camp. But let's move away from the general boredom part of my days at school and move into how UWM is actually actively against me.

I have been disenfranchised by UWM, they have given things to me, which they then wish to take away. My example: Russian. As far as I knew last semester, I should have been given both retroactive credit for my accomplishments in Russian in High School, and also credit for doing well on the HL IB test. I was told, as was my mom that I would be receiving 14 credits for my accomplishments, however that is not how things are working out. At first it seemed as though my Russian Professor would actually be an advocate for me, actually help me in my quest against the hierarchy of UWW, however he seems to have caved, and now I am on my own.

It seems that the Hierarchy of UWM has in effect alienated me, and while I could go about doing what the US had done in 1776 and name off ways that UWM has screwed me over, I will not, as now that would seem un-american, and I would not want to seem un-american :). Yeah right. I just wish to say that if a member of the UWM hierarchy promises something to a student and to their mother who is an attorney that they should keep that promise or be ready to be sued. And while my Russian Professor denies all knowledge of any possible credit, that is not what I had been told earlier, and therefore have been in effect screwed over. And as for my rant about why school sucks, this is the highest on a relatively short list. But I really don't think it is the goal of a University to screw its students out of money and out of credit, the last time I checked the point of a University was to be a tool for the student to use to receive an education. It has in effect changed from a non-profit state institution to one that is only for the hierarchy, and only for profit. Something the last time I checked was illegal.