I just returned from the Guignol Theatre where I saw The Trojan Women. It wasn’t terrible but I wouldn’t want to sit through it again. I had to see it for my honors class, otherwise, I really doubt I would’ve gone. Eh, at least it’s over with now.

Before that, I went to the programming competition to help out. I had to run a couple of errands for Dr. Jaromczyk and then assist the competitors by getting pencils, answering questions about submitting their programs, etc. Steve was the only person I knew that was competing but I did get to meet some friendly folks who were also helping. The other three helpers were seniors so I felt pretty young. It was interesting when I had to show one helper how to compile a C++ program. He was a CS major so I suppose he had just forgotten how to work with gcc. Whatever.

Dr. Keen, my CS 115 professor, was there for some reason; the only thing she did was grade papers, but maybe she was one of the judges. Anyway, I stood around beside her and Suzanne, another helper, when nobody needed me. I watched Dr. Keen grading the most recent quizzes we had taken and saw her grade mine; I got a 10/10.

She talked to Suzanne and I about some of the quizzes and the test my CS 115 class had, about the answers people had put. She mentioned one particular true/false question: If you add one to an integer in C++, is the result always a larger number? No, because of overflow. She described some very weird answers and how people tried to justify their answers in crazy ways. I said that I had used the word “ungodly” in mine to describe how large the number would be before it overflowed and became “an ungodly small number.” She remembered that one, to my great amusement. “Yeah, we got to your answer and someone read it out loud.” Oh, gee. She did tell me that I did really well on the test; yay. Not that I won’t fight those two points that I lost for a stupid reason, though.