So I got this email today explaining why the flag is at half-staff today. A graduate student pursuing his doctorate in Electrical Engineering died from Leukemia on Tuesday. This is the second time that the flag has been lowered for the death of a Grad Student this semester. This makes me wonder, if I died would they lower the flag for me? I'm a Grad Student. Do I have to have been here for a while or is three months enough? I don't have any plans to die, and don't really want to make any, but this would probably be my only opportunity to ever be recognized is such a fashion. Once I graduate into the big world of the U.S. I'll be much too unimportant in the scheme of world events to warrant any such honors. Perhaps I could fake my own death. Then, not only would the flag be lowered for me, but I could enjoy the sight of my gonfalon veneration.