Fun with research

So for English class I'm working on this group project thing where we're looking at student perception of campus safety and what the campus safety folks can do to better achieve the goals they claim to have in mind. I took on the job of writing up a survey which we basically all mailed to a bunch of students asking them to fill it out if they liked and not kill us if they didn't. And just now I slapped all the results thus far into Excel, and sorted them a few ways to get a feel for the trends I'll be needing to talk about in the report thing.

I'm rather fascinated by the one guy who selected options on the webpage form version of the survey indicating that he is not at all concerned about safety on campus, while also feeling that the campus is not at all safe.

Especially fun is where I included a field asking for any ideas people might have on upping safety that weren't addressed by the radio button questions. My favorite responses there:

• "Inform girls not to go to strange boys houses!!!"
• "make it a wet campus"
• "The campus is safe enough as it is. But, i suppose they could lower the speed limit on the streets to 5mph, hand out mandatory construction helmets, and cover all sharp edges with Nerf foam."

Needless to say, that last one came from a gentleman rather than a lady. You can tell he has ever so much respect for women and their silly flighty "concerned about safety" ways.

Also, mecha and I hung out with nidoking on Saturday, and at least some amount of fun was had by all. The reason I did not mention this before is Saturday evening I was tired and Sunday I had to take care of mecha because he was ubersick. Messr. nidoking, please to not be poisoning my roommate, as he is the only one I have. Thanks.

I am in love with the video for this song. Even though it is sad.