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At the heart of the DM building at University Park lies a big black cube.
Blue-and-gold legend has it years ago, a group of chemistry students sat underneath the cube to study for their finals. On a whim, they decided to spin the cube…just for fun. Two weeks later, all of those Golden Panthers realized they had earned perfect scores on their exams and they wondered how.
They could not explain it, yet they studied together the next semester and spun the cube again. Once again, they all received A’s on their exams.
They decided to test fate and did not spin the cube the following semester. In addition to failing their finals, they all had to repeat the class. The students then realized the power of the cube. Ever since then, it has been advised that students spin the cube at least 24 hours before their exams for good luck and all the success that comes with FIU will be theirs.
Your next chance to attend the finals week tradition and win a Tradition Keeper Scholarship is Tuesday, April 21.
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"As" needs an apostrophe…
thanks
Actually, "As" is correct, as, say, "1990s" is correct, or "'90s."
This guide disagrees with you MM.
"The only exception is when having no apostrophe might be confusing: "Two As" is ambiguous (it might be read as the word as)"
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/a.ht…
I noticed that the apostrophe was inserted, in spite of the assertion that "As" is correct. English language does allow us to use a single spelling to mean two different things, as minute (unit of time) and minute (indication of size), but, in this case, I'm not sure that we can get away with writing "As" to mean multiple occurrences of "A". Using the "s" without the apostrophe to create the plural of a number (1990s) is fine, but it's not always the same for abbreviations. Actually, to avoid all the confusion, it might be better to re-organize the sentence and write, "… they all received a grade of A in ….." (I hope no one comes back with the comment that I should have used the word, "grades", instead of "grade". That could start another discussion).
Thanks for the legend.
I don't know about the "As/A's" controversy, but I do know the first sentence should read, "At the heart … lies a black cube." No one ever knows how to use lie/lay – but it's not really that hard to figure out.