This past week and this week coming up makeup the busy season for an LFM student. Sure the midterms were tough and that was a busy week, but now we have projects due. The professors have been accommodating to our woes and homework has eased up to make way for the projects. Again I will stress that while we are busy, it is not that bad. I still find time to read for pleasure (right now I am on a binge of my favorite author Heinlein) and watch LOTR for what has to be about the 20th time (I watched as I completed my work for our Systems project and as I write this post).
This past Friday about 2/3 of the LFm class got together for a party and since it was on we watched the Olympic games opening ceremony. It was quite a show and the atmosphere among the LFM group made the opening extremely fun. We all cheered for the countries of fellow members of our program (Nigeria, India, Mexico, Argentina just to name a few) and booed the appropriate rivals (France, Canada, etc.). The party really showed the camaraderie we feel within the program. Not necessarily because we cheered and booed each others countries, but because despite a summer of being in a room with the same people everyday we still elect to hang out together on the weekends. It has been like this all summer. When someone has a birthday and an email goes out saying that we are going out for drinks or dinner, at least 30 LFM members (plus their significant others) show up.
Building on that camaraderie I have to say that this is not a group that is competitive against its members. You can see that with the way we approach our school work. People are glad to tell you how they solved a problem or what they think will be on a test, there are no secrets in an attempt to get a competitive advantage.
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