Well, not that much has happened today. The first day of classes after a long weekend, so I guess that I'm a bit glad to get through it.
Well, since my last journal update, I have done 2 things of importance, both of which involve the net (does that make me a nerd?).
The first is that I've been to United Devices, a web-site which lets your computer do calculations for research, mine is doing cancer research as we speak.
The second is that I have re-discovered web-comics, which means that the next few days of my life will consist of reading entire storylines through.
Anyway, in physics today, my teacher told us a cool story, so without further ado, here is your entertainment for the night.
So, my physics lesson for the day was momentum, and how it works, blah blah blah. We did a problem involving two cars crashing into each other, which led into a story by the professor.
He was the head of the physics department of Northeastern a few years ago, and he was quitely sitting in his office. He heard a knock on the door, and a lawyer came in to speak with him.
The lawyer asked if he could do a problem for him, remarkably similar to the one we just did in class. I won't bother you with the physics, but the professor agreed, and they worked out all of the variables of the two cars, and figured out what the speed of one of the cars in the crash was.
The lawyer was disapointed because it led to the conclusion that his client may have been at fault, so he thanked my professor and asked him what the fee was.
My professor said that he didn't charge fees, and that a quick problem to solve, which made his afternoon, was all the payment he needed. A few weeks later, he got a letter from the attorney explaining that he could have charged $10,000 for the consultation and no one would have cared. So, the professor's moral was that with the simple physics that we just learned in class, we could become wealthy legal consultants.
The real moral of the story: "Never consult an attorney without first consulting an attorney."
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