The Lazy Weekend & Blog Improvements

First of all I'd just make sure that everybody notices the changes and additions that I've made to the blog. Obviously the color scheme has changed to a mellower tone. And I've limited the main page to the latest 5 posts in order to limit the clutter and load time. One can access older posts from the archives to the lower left. 2 new additions have been added to the left tool bar. First of which is a poll for you all to participate, and I will try to remember to change it periodically. I believe anyone can take this poll even though only blogspot members can comment on my blog articles (so far Jenny is the only one doing this.) Beneath that is a list of some of the blogs I've been subscribed to (dad you made it into an elite list and better update yours.)
Now that that's all taken care of, last night ended up being pretty low key around here. I hung around campus with friends for the majority of the night, but did end up going to one of the two bars within walking distance for about an hour and a half. This morning I tried my hardest to watch the Badgers' game somehow online, but I ended up having to listen to a online radio broadcast of it (which was nice because I could review lecture slides at the same time.) They improved to 2-0 on the season with a 51-14 win over Marshall. Hopefully I'll get to see the Packers on Monday against the Vikings for not only the beginning of Aaron Rodgers' era, but also a game which might have great importance for the NFC north race.
The above picture is from the corner of my dorm building. If I press my head up against the window frame of my dorm and look through the window diagonally, I can see this sliver of ocean which is centered in the picture. So, I guess I could technically advertise an "ocean view." If one were able to see that far, peering off into the southern horizon you'd see a straight passing between the Island of Trinidad and the northeastern coast of Venezuela. This I estimate to be about 90 miles away, and I believe that the curve of the earth limits someone standing on shore to only a 3 mile line of sight.
This second picture is a view of a portion of the campus which can be seen from the front of my dorm. The building in the foreground on the left is the student center (restaurant, cafeteria, bank, gym, general store.) On the right is the newly built lecture hall which my entire class of about 350 has our lectures together in. All the buildings behind them are apartment style dorms. The big field in front is used for recreation. All the intramural football/soccer teams are out there pretty regularly.
So far all of today has been spent inside with the Badger game and biochem studying. A week from Monday we all have the Unified Quiz. It's a 3 hour quiz and each course has 25 multiple choice questions on it. Each of these sections account for about 10-12% of each respective course's grade. So, it's not make or break for us, but it gives us an idea where we stand and how effective our studying strategies have been. It'll be nice to get something under my belt. It feels weird already being done with the white coat ceremony and knowing that there is a 5% attrition rate (half for academic reasons, and the other half for personal.) I'd just like to pass the thing comfortably and know I can handle this whole thing.