First order of business: retractions. The local media is a little more proactive than I had previously believed. The Daily did indeed run a piece summarizing that wacky "morality debate" from last Wednesday. And not only that, but the Des Moines Register apparently sent a columnist up to Ames for the marriage debate and ran a piece from the journalist two days later. In the future, I will endeavor to have more faith in my local media. No I won't.

In personal news, I went ahead and declared my major: mechanical engineering. Hah. If my reckoning is right, I'm condemned to die as I will live the rest of my life: alone, locked away in a small room surrounded by drafting tables and straight-edges. I chose this path because my other big major choices were physics and political science, and I would much prefer to spend my waning years around blueprints and plotters than quarks or sweaty, fat men in suits. So off to the protractor shop I go!