Why transfinite joy? One question of the questions I imagine will be asked of Transfinite Joy is,"Why call it that?" My answer is because transfinite joy truly describes my experience here at school. It does not mean that I am always happy here at school. Far from it. In fact I would say that through out the day I smile relatively little or at least no more than anyone else. It does not mean that I am always entertained. I am nowhere near entertained for more than 90% of the day. So what does it mean? It is the feeling I have reading a good book after lights out. It is the feeling you get from wasting QUEST when you have a lot of homework due. It is Physics homework done in 30 minutes. It is missing the first 10 minutes of ‘Happy Half’ and still having more fun than I had during the majority of the longer ‘Happy Hours.’ It is faking an IM. It is playing computer games all night and sleeping through class the next day. It is cramming too many books into a box that is too small. It is sleeping in the amphitheater. It is just how I feel here at G-school. Maybe I am the only one who feels this way, but I doubt it. When I compare hanging out at giant AMC movie theater with my old friends to paying $2 for a month old movie with a couple govies the experiences are incomparable. No matter what the movie, seeing it with a govie makes it better. For all the ‘suckiness’ of the school and the rules and admin and Aramark and classes and homework and everything else I must say I am having the time of my life here. And so Transfinite Joy.