I Rock. . .

The total for Pi-Throw is approximately $5300 with about $900 in expenses. However, we should have recuperated $180 of that by year-end (it’s just the way the SESS’s deal with GW and the Pat works). It’s been interesting to see the reactions of different people when I tell them how much we raised. Some are uttered shocked by the amount (in a good way) while others are not at all impressed. I presume that it’s just a question of your frame of reference. Seeing as how most people reading this will have no frame of reference for Pi-Throw, I’ll provide you with one. Last year Pi-Throw netted $6400 and grossed approximately $7000. In words, expenses were lower and revenues were much higher. Despite this fact, I remain happy with the total considering I started working on this event about six weeks before it happened.

Right now I’m trying to recover from something I’ve never done before. Namely, completely ignoring my imposed responsibilities (i.e. school) to work on Pi-Throw. So far the road appears long and fraught with great burdens. I now give you some of the highlights and lowlights of Pi-Throw, its inception, execution, and aftermath.

Lowlights:

• Strained relations with faculty and the Dean’s Office, most notably, receiving an email from an instructor who is a reference on my resume stating that Pi-Throw is an “ethically flawed” fundraiser
  

• Being brought closer to letting out a string of curses than I have in a long time by a graphic designer more concerned with the DPI on an image than getting it to print on time
  

• Missing three days of school (including some classes where I don’t know anyone to get notes from), while waking up at 6:30am every day and getting to sleep sometime around 11:30pm to 2:30pm
  

• Missing over a week of homework, including not handing in one assignment in every class I’m taking (and not handing in two in quantum mechanics)
  

• Writing a thermal and statistical physics midterm worth 25% on 45 minutes of study time (thank goodness for open-book tests)
  

Highlights:

• Knowing that my uncle, my boss over the summer, and my quantum mechanics instructor all got pies
  

• Me having the courage to step away from school to do something I actually care about
  

• All of my amazing volunteers being amazing. Special kudos goes out to J. for feeding me and not charging me anything
  

• C. and E. (and C.’s friend L.) for giving me supper on Friday night at 8:30pm when I was so hungry I thought I’d die but I was afraid to leave the office. The meal consisted of a baguette, a piece of brie, GW lager, and, of course, a coconut.
  

• C. and B. for giving me tea with honey, a sofa to sit on, and people to talk to when I really needed it

Recipe for Opening a Coconut:

1. Attempt to crack coconut on the corner of the table.
2. Realize the coconut is winning and switch to paper cutter.
3. Realize the coconut is still wining and take it outside the building, hurl it two stories into the air, and let it drop on the asphalt.
4. Eat coconut, removing stubborn pieces of shell with blunt-nosed pliers, as necessary.