Nerd Journal: Final Exam / Term Paper Apocalypse on Campus

OH, YES. You know it! Time for sleepless nights, endless cups of coffee, and the inevitable pendulum swings between manic activity and exhausted prostration. It is exam time in Nerdworld!

So naturally I'm completely disinterested in school and instead am caught in two very different obsessions: the melancholy Dane and the technophiliac loose cannon industrialist. La Parisienne and California Dreamer, join me! The ladies love Robert Downey, Jr., but the ladies also love David Tennant, time-traveling Doctor and now tortured Danish prince.

Since I just gave a shout-out to "Iron Man 2," I'll post something Shakespearean:

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him well, Horatio --
a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy...
but he didn't pass his departmental comprehensive exams,
and now look at him.

Was that modern-dress version of Hamlet just too ... modern? Too reminiscent of grungy backpackers? Maybe. Here's something a little more ... er, "traditional"?

To be or not to be ... yours.
(Well, if that's not the easiest question ever!)