Wednesday, January 26, 2005
Crunching the Numbers
It's Wednesday night, and I'm done with homework...kinda. I had two midterms and a speech on Monday and another midterm on Tuesday, so I think I deserve a break. I've got the room to myself, my music playing, a steaming glass of apple cider (from a powdered mix), and a big blank blog screen in front of me. So in short, life is pretty good...at least for the time being. Hooray.
So I got my comp sci quiz back on Tuesday: 4 out of 9, which is pretty much about what I had expected. I look back at what I didn't know how to do and it all looks so easy now, so that's a little frustrating. But hey, at least I like the subject. I figured out that if I get perfect scores on two quizzes I should be about back up to an A (barely). Right now I have a C, or maybe a little better with the labs I've done factored in. I also talked to my instructor and he says that most people struggle at this point in the course, and that it's certainly possible to come back. So hooray. I have another quiz tomorrow, and we've learned no new material since last week. I would say I'm feeling confident but I don't entirely trust Dr. Pokorny not to bust out some random programming obscurity. But I do plan on doing slightly better than last week.
Here's some more exciting academic news: I got a D on my last chem quiz. 62.5%. At least, that's what was listed as my grade when I checked Sunday night. I was quite upset at this because I had walked away from that quiz feeling very good about it. Generally, you don't get a D when you think you got an A. I went to talk to Dr. Berber to ask her about it, because I had a midterm for that class on Monday, and I figured that if there was something I was doing entirely incorrectly it was to my benefit to figure out what it was before the exam. Long story short, there was an error in the key and I actually got an 85%. Ha! (I missed about 8% on one question because I didn't know that some random composition of hydrogen, carbon, and oxygen was a liquid in its natural state, even though the chemical equation I had written down was entirely correct and balanced.) Whatever...I got a 96% on the first quiz and I've since heard from a TA that I did exceptionally well on the midterm. And the class is curved. So I'm feeling quite a bit better about this class then I was on Sunday.
As for my other midterms, speech was fine and IME wasn't so great. I'm over IME...it's a two-unit class and therefore doesn't affect my GPA all that much, and I loathe the material in the textbook. I'll still read the book...but I'm not going to kill myself worrying about the stuff that doesn't stick with me. And let's keep in mind that nobody that I talked to had even picked up the book. Maybe the test will be curved...
Oh, and I was quite proud of my speech. You remember, the one about the house burning down? I felt like I had everyone on the edges of their seats. It was a powerful story...very dramatic and all that...
So, gee...can you tell that I'm busier with school this quarter? Four paragraphs on quizzes, exams, and speeches that took place just in the last three days. Last quarter it was more along the lines of "uh....I was done with class at 10...I had a sandwich...I killed some time...I practiced some piano...and I wrote in my blog for an hour." Man! Oh well...just six more weeks of this junk left....I LOVE the quarter system!
What else have I done? Hmm....oh, I was on TV on Saturday. Well, I wouldn't really classify it as on TV, but I could see myself in the background of the CSU Northridge vs. Cal Poly basketball game, so that was very exciting. But TV aside, that game was so much fun! Northridge is second from the top in our division...and the Mustangs are second from the bottom. So you knew Northridge was going to win. But the lead shifted back and forth for the first three-fourths of the game, and it was never more than a few points' difference. Cal Poly fell apart, though, as they always do in the second half...at least it was later than usual this time. Plus, with Fox Sports Net West 2 present, the timeouts took so much longer due to commercials, so we got to play so much more of our music. We generally only get through the first third song...if we're lucky. But we were finishing songs left and right! It was a blast!
Aside from that, I have not much to report. So I'm sorry that this entry is pretty much just about my grades, but that's pretty much all that's going on around here right now. Studying...homeworking...examing...the works. I'll get back to you when fun stuff happens.
Cheers,
Josh
mood: in a little pocket of stress relief
music: "Tutti Frutti" by Little Richard
location: dorm
I would like to insert something here that I hope will become a regular part of Living the SLO Life: random quotes from people that I've heard since the last time I wrote. I always love reading these in other people's blogs, so I wanted to include some in mine. Here it goes:
Quoted Randomness:
[After a speeding car came rushing around the corner as we walked back from Light House] "I totally should've jumped in front of that car. I'd have gotten so much money!"
--Alicia
"Most babies are made with alcohol."
--Dave
"Light House dessert sucked tonight...now I have to go home and eat jelly beans."
--Me
"I know it's marked piano, so play it soft, but firm...like my wife."
--Dave Rackley (MB director)
[In reference to bracelets identifying one with his political party affiliation] "The competition between the [red and the blue] is becoming heated and hopefully the 'Bloods' and 'Crypts' don't mistake these bracelets for gang signs, or else a lot of people are going down."
--Josh Kob, Daily Mustang columnist
Also, in response to Mom's request for pictures, here is one of Cal Poly's package center:
The package center is actually around the corner, but this picture is hilarious. Now you know where all of the cookies people send me go! :-)
So I got my comp sci quiz back on Tuesday: 4 out of 9, which is pretty much about what I had expected. I look back at what I didn't know how to do and it all looks so easy now, so that's a little frustrating. But hey, at least I like the subject. I figured out that if I get perfect scores on two quizzes I should be about back up to an A (barely). Right now I have a C, or maybe a little better with the labs I've done factored in. I also talked to my instructor and he says that most people struggle at this point in the course, and that it's certainly possible to come back. So hooray. I have another quiz tomorrow, and we've learned no new material since last week. I would say I'm feeling confident but I don't entirely trust Dr. Pokorny not to bust out some random programming obscurity. But I do plan on doing slightly better than last week.
Here's some more exciting academic news: I got a D on my last chem quiz. 62.5%. At least, that's what was listed as my grade when I checked Sunday night. I was quite upset at this because I had walked away from that quiz feeling very good about it. Generally, you don't get a D when you think you got an A. I went to talk to Dr. Berber to ask her about it, because I had a midterm for that class on Monday, and I figured that if there was something I was doing entirely incorrectly it was to my benefit to figure out what it was before the exam. Long story short, there was an error in the key and I actually got an 85%. Ha! (I missed about 8% on one question because I didn't know that some random composition of hydrogen, carbon, and oxygen was a liquid in its natural state, even though the chemical equation I had written down was entirely correct and balanced.) Whatever...I got a 96% on the first quiz and I've since heard from a TA that I did exceptionally well on the midterm. And the class is curved. So I'm feeling quite a bit better about this class then I was on Sunday.
As for my other midterms, speech was fine and IME wasn't so great. I'm over IME...it's a two-unit class and therefore doesn't affect my GPA all that much, and I loathe the material in the textbook. I'll still read the book...but I'm not going to kill myself worrying about the stuff that doesn't stick with me. And let's keep in mind that nobody that I talked to had even picked up the book. Maybe the test will be curved...
Oh, and I was quite proud of my speech. You remember, the one about the house burning down? I felt like I had everyone on the edges of their seats. It was a powerful story...very dramatic and all that...
So, gee...can you tell that I'm busier with school this quarter? Four paragraphs on quizzes, exams, and speeches that took place just in the last three days. Last quarter it was more along the lines of "uh....I was done with class at 10...I had a sandwich...I killed some time...I practiced some piano...and I wrote in my blog for an hour." Man! Oh well...just six more weeks of this junk left....I LOVE the quarter system!
What else have I done? Hmm....oh, I was on TV on Saturday. Well, I wouldn't really classify it as on TV, but I could see myself in the background of the CSU Northridge vs. Cal Poly basketball game, so that was very exciting. But TV aside, that game was so much fun! Northridge is second from the top in our division...and the Mustangs are second from the bottom. So you knew Northridge was going to win. But the lead shifted back and forth for the first three-fourths of the game, and it was never more than a few points' difference. Cal Poly fell apart, though, as they always do in the second half...at least it was later than usual this time. Plus, with Fox Sports Net West 2 present, the timeouts took so much longer due to commercials, so we got to play so much more of our music. We generally only get through the first third song...if we're lucky. But we were finishing songs left and right! It was a blast!
Aside from that, I have not much to report. So I'm sorry that this entry is pretty much just about my grades, but that's pretty much all that's going on around here right now. Studying...homeworking...examing...the works. I'll get back to you when fun stuff happens.
Cheers,
Josh
mood: in a little pocket of stress relief
music: "Tutti Frutti" by Little Richard
location: dorm
I would like to insert something here that I hope will become a regular part of Living the SLO Life: random quotes from people that I've heard since the last time I wrote. I always love reading these in other people's blogs, so I wanted to include some in mine. Here it goes:
Quoted Randomness:
[After a speeding car came rushing around the corner as we walked back from Light House] "I totally should've jumped in front of that car. I'd have gotten so much money!"
--Alicia
"Most babies are made with alcohol."
--Dave
"Light House dessert sucked tonight...now I have to go home and eat jelly beans."
--Me
"I know it's marked piano, so play it soft, but firm...like my wife."
--Dave Rackley (MB director)
[In reference to bracelets identifying one with his political party affiliation] "The competition between the [red and the blue] is becoming heated and hopefully the 'Bloods' and 'Crypts' don't mistake these bracelets for gang signs, or else a lot of people are going down."
--Josh Kob, Daily Mustang columnist
Also, in response to Mom's request for pictures, here is one of Cal Poly's package center:
The package center is actually around the corner, but this picture is hilarious. Now you know where all of the cookies people send me go! :-)
Friday, January 21, 2005
Good Golly Cal Poly
Hi-dee-ho, neighbors! It's me, writing the first real entry in two weeks. Can I get a woot woot? No? I can't pull that off...oh well. On with the entry!
I have been stressed for the last week, chiefly for two reasons. The first, as one might be tempted to guess, is academics. As I said before, I have more classes this quarter, and they're harder. I'll give a brief update on how each class is going:
--EE 112 (Electric Circuit Analysis): This class is, thankfully, quite easy. I'm learning how to analyze basic circuits, which I did a lot of last year in physics. I have about five problems a week in homework which usually only take me a half an hour or so. Factor in the fact that this class only meets two hours a week (a two-unit class that actually doesn't meet for more than two hours a week...what a concept!) and this class turns out to be a breeze. Hooray! I also am interested in the subject matter. I like taking the complicated circuits and figuring out the equivalent easier circuits to analyze. So yeah, yay for EE 112.
--SCOM 101 (Public Speaking): This class is slightly more work for me than EE 112. I will be giving seven speeches over the course of this quarter, and there are a couple of simple midterms (which include take-home sections!) and five writing assignments. I have already given one speech: a three-minute, ungraded speech about myself that I think went rather well. I have to give a three-to-six-minute story speech on Monday; I've decided to tell the story about my house burning down. It's a story that means a lot to me, there are a lot of juicy sensory details in it, and it has some profound morals at the end of it (namely, finding the good in everything). I have not yet written that speech, but I'm not worried. I don't actually have to write anything...I'll just throw together a rough outline and practice it a few times. I'll be fine. I really don't mind speaking in front of an audience, especially when I get to choose the topic. All speeches aside, this class is usually pretty fun. My teacher is awesome; she always has some fun speaking exercise for us to try. Also, everyone in the class is very friendly, so I don't mind speaking in front of them. It's actually nice to see these people every day (speech is the only class I have all four days). Hey, and look at that! A four-unit class that meets for four hours per week. Incredible!
--Chem 124 (General Chemistry for Engineers): Now we start getting into the "fun" classes. I'm doing much better in this class than I thought I'd be. I've heard so many rumors about it, and now that I'm actually here it doesn't seem to be that big of a deal. I will say that the workload is a little higher than the average class, but it's nothing too amazing. We move at a quick pace, and usually the lectures move fast enough that you don't really grasp the concepts without reading the textbook. (You aren't actually required to read the text or do any of the homework problems; you just have to do it out of your own motivation to succeed. Hence people fail tests and spread rumors about the class.) I've had a couple of quizzes and, though I haven't actually received either of them back yet, I think I did pretty well. So woop-de-doo. I halfway enjoy the subject matter of this class, but I have two two-and-a-half hour blocks of this class per week, and it gets to be a pretty long time, particularly at 5:30 in the evening. But it isn't the worst thing...we do experiments and worksheets and stuff, so it's not like I sit there taking notes the whole time. I'd have shot someone by now...
--CSC 101 (Fundamentals of Computer Science): I like this class a lot. Well...actually...I like computer programming a lot...I'm not too sure about the class itself. The instructor's lectures are not very well planned...or organized...and therefore are very difficult to follow. He tends to come to class and look through the textbook and mumble things like "oh, this command here does such and such a thing...(flips page)...this program here is a good example of blah blah...oh, you should never do this....here's another example of something or other." I can't really take notes on his lectures because they turn out being a random collection of factoids about the Java computer language as opposed to something that will actually help me down the road. Yeah. And while were on the subject of computer science, here's a bit of news: I failed my quiz in this class on Thursday. I haven't gotten it back yet, but I'm guessing I'll probably get three to five out of nine. Abridged version of my excuse: we barely talked about the stuff on the quiz the day before we had it; we did not practice any of it in the lab before the quiz. I had eight minutes to write three-ish different programs (yes, eight minutes...this guy is a clock nazi) and I had no idea how to do it. After having gone to the lab afterwards and experiment with the new stuff I now understand it...very well, in fact. I do believe the quiz was unfair...most people in the class also seem to think they did very poorly. I don't really know what to do about it...I don't know what I could have done to prepare for this quiz. I'm just hoping that it was a fluke.
--IME 156 (Basic Electronics Manufacturing): This class is the one that revolves around producing a working power supply box, which includes designing and etching a circuit board, soldering all the parts to it, and assembling it into a nice pretty box that I built myself. This class is a moderate amount of work, but it's actually building something rather than doing problems out of a book. So hooray for that. My only gripe about this class is the reading I'm supposed to be doing. The text for this class is the most boring book I have ever laid my eyes upon. Here's an excerpt: "Glass styles used predominately in the rigid printed board industry range from a thickness of 0.0018 to 0.0068 in. The thickness of the pressed laminate has been achieved by careful selection of prepregs made from these glass styles. FR-4 laminates generally can be supplied from 0.002 to 0.62 in., in 0.001 in. increments, depending on the glass style and resin content percent of the prepregs used." ..............what?....oh....sorry, I fell asleep there for a second. I have a midterm on this stuff on Tuesday. Thankfully I have started the reading, which is a pretty darned good accomplishment considering half the class hasn't even purchased the book yet. That aside, this class isn't so bad.
--Mustang Band: MB is fun. I have my two-hour rehearsal on Tuesdays, and then games on Thursday and Saturday evenings. I only have to go to the Thursday games (we divide into two bands and share responsibility), although I've gone to every one so far, for no other reason than that I enjoy them. It is nice to know, though, that if I have a weekend where I just have a ton of stuff to do I'm not required to go to the game. Woot. As far as the games themselves go, they're only moderately interesting, albeit much better than RB's games were. Now that I've been promoted to second part I have to sit on the other side of the band, which puts me squarely behind the basket. My view is now obstructed, which is kind of a drag. I've gotten used to it now though. The Mustangs haven't been doing so well...the women's team has won about half the games that we've been to, and the men's team has lost them all. They're like 2-13. I know you can't win them all, but you'd think they'd at least win some. (Stacie, our women's team beat you that night I talked to you, but, sadly, our men's team lost - by a heck of a lot - that Monday.) In other news, tomorrow's game is televised! I'm sure I'll be on channel 455 or something like that...but be on the lookout for it! Cal Poly vs. Cal State Northridge, 7:00.
--Wind Orchestra: I'm considering dropping windO after this year. I don't like the way J conducts rehearsals. We're there for an hour and a half twice a week, and in that ninety minutes he tries to work usually about four or five songs. I know this doesn't seem like a lot, but we spend forever warming up and tuning. We spend about fifteen minutes on a song, which is barely enough time to get out the music for it and play it through one time. I really don't feel like we get anything done. J has been absent from a couple of rehearsals, and we've had this one guy - Rudolph is his first name...I don't know his last - lead rehearsals in his place. Rudolph is hilarious, and he spends our time the way I would if I were conducting: a little warmup and tuning, and then spending a lot of time on a couple of songs. His presence only serves to highlight what I don't like about J. So yeah...I don't strongly dislike windO...it's just that I'm not sure it's really worth my time investment. MB is great...worth every second. I can't say that about windO. There is a good side, though. You know how in high school, band drops your GPA down from the 5.0 you have in your AP classes? Well, in college there ain't no 5-point anythings, so my A in band is worth just as much as my A in any other class. Woot for GPA-boosters! And you know what's even cooler? WindO is a one-unit class, but we're allowed to enroll in the other band (which for me is wind ensemble) and, without having to go to extra rehearsals or do extra work, get another one unit of A applied to our GPAs. Take that, established system!
And that's all for classes. I'm staying on top of them for the most part, except for comp sci, which is a class that's a little hard to predict right now. The workload isn't bad, but last week was pretty tough just because I did so much over the weekend: basketball game Thursday, errands all day Friday, beach and basketball game Saturday, church, studying in park and playing Sheepshead (card game, see rules at http://www.pagat.com/schafk/shep.html) Sunday, and basketball game Monday. It was a heckuva lot to get through. I immensely enjoyed myself until I found that I was behind on all my homework. But hey, what kind of college student would I be if I was always caught up?
The other thing that's been causing me stress is my rooming arrangements for next year. I know that now is the time to start looking for a place to live off campus next year, but I have not yet started. It doesn't bother me that I haven't found a specific apartment...that I could go out and do on any weekend (or two or three). But I don't know anyone I would want to room with next year, and that's what worries me. I definitely don't want to just room with some random person they assign to me, because chances are my living style will clash with his. He'll want to play loud music and party, and I'll want to do homework and sleep. So I know I want to room with someone I've met myself. But therein lies the problem, because I don't really know anyone who I think I'd like to room with. Not even a little bit. So I've not known how this situation would resolve itself.
Today, however, a possibility has arisen. Heather's (Rosalie's roommate...remember?) family has purchased a house in SLO so they can rent it out to students and make a pretty penny (and, conveniently, so Heather can stay there whilst she attends Cal Poly). Heather was talking to me about it today as I drove her to her dance class. It turns out that the house has three bedrooms and that Heather doesn't know with whom to fill them. I was halfway joking when I said that I would be happy to live there...but...well...you can imagine where the conversation went from there. I'm very excited about this possibility simply because...well...it's the first possibility I've come across. And I would have my own room. My own room! MY OWN ROOM!!! It would be a little weird rooming with Heather...but...did I mention that I'd have my own room? Well, we'll save this discussion for another time. (I will, by the way go ahead and answer the question that's on all of your minds: will Rosalie be the third roommate? Maybe...she'd like to but she thinks the rent is too high. So she's investigating the possibility of living elsewhere. I would like to point out that I am aware of the possible pitfalls of living with someone who (whom? please correct me.) is a potential romantic attachment for me. This is as good of a time as any to say that, as much as I really like Rosalie, I think I've lost...or am losing...interest in dating her. I have my reasons...this is another discussion we'll save for another time.)
The point is: both of the things that have been stressing me out have gotten at least somewhat better over the course of the past couple of days. So yay for that. I hope you all have been enjoying yourselves since the last time I've written to you. I shall talk to you soon.
Cheers,
Josh
mood: a mix of stuff...still a little stressed
music: Too Hip! - Cal Poly Mustang Band
location: dorm (Kevin is staying with his arkie friends tonight. Partay over here!!)
I have been stressed for the last week, chiefly for two reasons. The first, as one might be tempted to guess, is academics. As I said before, I have more classes this quarter, and they're harder. I'll give a brief update on how each class is going:
--EE 112 (Electric Circuit Analysis): This class is, thankfully, quite easy. I'm learning how to analyze basic circuits, which I did a lot of last year in physics. I have about five problems a week in homework which usually only take me a half an hour or so. Factor in the fact that this class only meets two hours a week (a two-unit class that actually doesn't meet for more than two hours a week...what a concept!) and this class turns out to be a breeze. Hooray! I also am interested in the subject matter. I like taking the complicated circuits and figuring out the equivalent easier circuits to analyze. So yeah, yay for EE 112.
--SCOM 101 (Public Speaking): This class is slightly more work for me than EE 112. I will be giving seven speeches over the course of this quarter, and there are a couple of simple midterms (which include take-home sections!) and five writing assignments. I have already given one speech: a three-minute, ungraded speech about myself that I think went rather well. I have to give a three-to-six-minute story speech on Monday; I've decided to tell the story about my house burning down. It's a story that means a lot to me, there are a lot of juicy sensory details in it, and it has some profound morals at the end of it (namely, finding the good in everything). I have not yet written that speech, but I'm not worried. I don't actually have to write anything...I'll just throw together a rough outline and practice it a few times. I'll be fine. I really don't mind speaking in front of an audience, especially when I get to choose the topic. All speeches aside, this class is usually pretty fun. My teacher is awesome; she always has some fun speaking exercise for us to try. Also, everyone in the class is very friendly, so I don't mind speaking in front of them. It's actually nice to see these people every day (speech is the only class I have all four days). Hey, and look at that! A four-unit class that meets for four hours per week. Incredible!
--Chem 124 (General Chemistry for Engineers): Now we start getting into the "fun" classes. I'm doing much better in this class than I thought I'd be. I've heard so many rumors about it, and now that I'm actually here it doesn't seem to be that big of a deal. I will say that the workload is a little higher than the average class, but it's nothing too amazing. We move at a quick pace, and usually the lectures move fast enough that you don't really grasp the concepts without reading the textbook. (You aren't actually required to read the text or do any of the homework problems; you just have to do it out of your own motivation to succeed. Hence people fail tests and spread rumors about the class.) I've had a couple of quizzes and, though I haven't actually received either of them back yet, I think I did pretty well. So woop-de-doo. I halfway enjoy the subject matter of this class, but I have two two-and-a-half hour blocks of this class per week, and it gets to be a pretty long time, particularly at 5:30 in the evening. But it isn't the worst thing...we do experiments and worksheets and stuff, so it's not like I sit there taking notes the whole time. I'd have shot someone by now...
--CSC 101 (Fundamentals of Computer Science): I like this class a lot. Well...actually...I like computer programming a lot...I'm not too sure about the class itself. The instructor's lectures are not very well planned...or organized...and therefore are very difficult to follow. He tends to come to class and look through the textbook and mumble things like "oh, this command here does such and such a thing...(flips page)...this program here is a good example of blah blah...oh, you should never do this....here's another example of something or other." I can't really take notes on his lectures because they turn out being a random collection of factoids about the Java computer language as opposed to something that will actually help me down the road. Yeah. And while were on the subject of computer science, here's a bit of news: I failed my quiz in this class on Thursday. I haven't gotten it back yet, but I'm guessing I'll probably get three to five out of nine. Abridged version of my excuse: we barely talked about the stuff on the quiz the day before we had it; we did not practice any of it in the lab before the quiz. I had eight minutes to write three-ish different programs (yes, eight minutes...this guy is a clock nazi) and I had no idea how to do it. After having gone to the lab afterwards and experiment with the new stuff I now understand it...very well, in fact. I do believe the quiz was unfair...most people in the class also seem to think they did very poorly. I don't really know what to do about it...I don't know what I could have done to prepare for this quiz. I'm just hoping that it was a fluke.
--IME 156 (Basic Electronics Manufacturing): This class is the one that revolves around producing a working power supply box, which includes designing and etching a circuit board, soldering all the parts to it, and assembling it into a nice pretty box that I built myself. This class is a moderate amount of work, but it's actually building something rather than doing problems out of a book. So hooray for that. My only gripe about this class is the reading I'm supposed to be doing. The text for this class is the most boring book I have ever laid my eyes upon. Here's an excerpt: "Glass styles used predominately in the rigid printed board industry range from a thickness of 0.0018 to 0.0068 in. The thickness of the pressed laminate has been achieved by careful selection of prepregs made from these glass styles. FR-4 laminates generally can be supplied from 0.002 to 0.62 in., in 0.001 in. increments, depending on the glass style and resin content percent of the prepregs used." ..............what?....oh....sorry, I fell asleep there for a second. I have a midterm on this stuff on Tuesday. Thankfully I have started the reading, which is a pretty darned good accomplishment considering half the class hasn't even purchased the book yet. That aside, this class isn't so bad.
--Mustang Band: MB is fun. I have my two-hour rehearsal on Tuesdays, and then games on Thursday and Saturday evenings. I only have to go to the Thursday games (we divide into two bands and share responsibility), although I've gone to every one so far, for no other reason than that I enjoy them. It is nice to know, though, that if I have a weekend where I just have a ton of stuff to do I'm not required to go to the game. Woot. As far as the games themselves go, they're only moderately interesting, albeit much better than RB's games were. Now that I've been promoted to second part I have to sit on the other side of the band, which puts me squarely behind the basket. My view is now obstructed, which is kind of a drag. I've gotten used to it now though. The Mustangs haven't been doing so well...the women's team has won about half the games that we've been to, and the men's team has lost them all. They're like 2-13. I know you can't win them all, but you'd think they'd at least win some. (Stacie, our women's team beat you that night I talked to you, but, sadly, our men's team lost - by a heck of a lot - that Monday.) In other news, tomorrow's game is televised! I'm sure I'll be on channel 455 or something like that...but be on the lookout for it! Cal Poly vs. Cal State Northridge, 7:00.
--Wind Orchestra: I'm considering dropping windO after this year. I don't like the way J conducts rehearsals. We're there for an hour and a half twice a week, and in that ninety minutes he tries to work usually about four or five songs. I know this doesn't seem like a lot, but we spend forever warming up and tuning. We spend about fifteen minutes on a song, which is barely enough time to get out the music for it and play it through one time. I really don't feel like we get anything done. J has been absent from a couple of rehearsals, and we've had this one guy - Rudolph is his first name...I don't know his last - lead rehearsals in his place. Rudolph is hilarious, and he spends our time the way I would if I were conducting: a little warmup and tuning, and then spending a lot of time on a couple of songs. His presence only serves to highlight what I don't like about J. So yeah...I don't strongly dislike windO...it's just that I'm not sure it's really worth my time investment. MB is great...worth every second. I can't say that about windO. There is a good side, though. You know how in high school, band drops your GPA down from the 5.0 you have in your AP classes? Well, in college there ain't no 5-point anythings, so my A in band is worth just as much as my A in any other class. Woot for GPA-boosters! And you know what's even cooler? WindO is a one-unit class, but we're allowed to enroll in the other band (which for me is wind ensemble) and, without having to go to extra rehearsals or do extra work, get another one unit of A applied to our GPAs. Take that, established system!
And that's all for classes. I'm staying on top of them for the most part, except for comp sci, which is a class that's a little hard to predict right now. The workload isn't bad, but last week was pretty tough just because I did so much over the weekend: basketball game Thursday, errands all day Friday, beach and basketball game Saturday, church, studying in park and playing Sheepshead (card game, see rules at http://www.pagat.com/schafk/shep.html) Sunday, and basketball game Monday. It was a heckuva lot to get through. I immensely enjoyed myself until I found that I was behind on all my homework. But hey, what kind of college student would I be if I was always caught up?
The other thing that's been causing me stress is my rooming arrangements for next year. I know that now is the time to start looking for a place to live off campus next year, but I have not yet started. It doesn't bother me that I haven't found a specific apartment...that I could go out and do on any weekend (or two or three). But I don't know anyone I would want to room with next year, and that's what worries me. I definitely don't want to just room with some random person they assign to me, because chances are my living style will clash with his. He'll want to play loud music and party, and I'll want to do homework and sleep. So I know I want to room with someone I've met myself. But therein lies the problem, because I don't really know anyone who I think I'd like to room with. Not even a little bit. So I've not known how this situation would resolve itself.
Today, however, a possibility has arisen. Heather's (Rosalie's roommate...remember?) family has purchased a house in SLO so they can rent it out to students and make a pretty penny (and, conveniently, so Heather can stay there whilst she attends Cal Poly). Heather was talking to me about it today as I drove her to her dance class. It turns out that the house has three bedrooms and that Heather doesn't know with whom to fill them. I was halfway joking when I said that I would be happy to live there...but...well...you can imagine where the conversation went from there. I'm very excited about this possibility simply because...well...it's the first possibility I've come across. And I would have my own room. My own room! MY OWN ROOM!!! It would be a little weird rooming with Heather...but...did I mention that I'd have my own room? Well, we'll save this discussion for another time. (I will, by the way go ahead and answer the question that's on all of your minds: will Rosalie be the third roommate? Maybe...she'd like to but she thinks the rent is too high. So she's investigating the possibility of living elsewhere. I would like to point out that I am aware of the possible pitfalls of living with someone who (whom? please correct me.) is a potential romantic attachment for me. This is as good of a time as any to say that, as much as I really like Rosalie, I think I've lost...or am losing...interest in dating her. I have my reasons...this is another discussion we'll save for another time.)
The point is: both of the things that have been stressing me out have gotten at least somewhat better over the course of the past couple of days. So yay for that. I hope you all have been enjoying yourselves since the last time I've written to you. I shall talk to you soon.
Cheers,
Josh
mood: a mix of stuff...still a little stressed
music: Too Hip! - Cal Poly Mustang Band
location: dorm (Kevin is staying with his arkie friends tonight. Partay over here!!)
Wednesday, January 19, 2005
George
Hello! I'm so sorry for not writing in such a ridiculously long time. I thought about declaring this blog officially closed, but I couldn't bring myself to do it. Part of the reason for that is that I feel like I ought to be writing because there are a few of you who I know are quite disappointed when I don't write, but another part of the reason is that I really do miss writing in here. Last quarter was wonderful...I enjoyed keeping this thing very much. But this quarter is very much more hectic. I had two real classes in the fall that I needed to do work for (music theory and EE don't really count because my work would take me an hour per week at the most). But this quarter, I have five...well...four, because I already know most of the EE stuff from physics last year. But the point is, I've got no time. Plus, my Fridays-off schedule does not really allow for time to write here on Monday through Thursday. And I really don't like to have to summarize a whole week in one entry, so I don't like writing on the weekends.
But nonetheless, I do miss having the time to write in here. I hope my loyal readers haven't taken my lack of writing as a sign that I have stopped caring about those at home. On the contrary, I miss you all as much now (if not more) than before. So I am not closing this blog...you'll just have to forgive me if my entries are few and far between.
On a lighter note, the band website was finally fixed! Do you know what that means?! Multimedia extravaganza!! Theoretically, click on the links below to hear some Mustang Band goodness. (I personally am experiencing problems with this process...if simply clicking on the links doesn't work, try right-clicking on them and saving the files to your computer and playing them.)
The two you have to listen to:
George!
Ride High, You Mustangs (fight song)
Others I might draw your attention to:
I'm a Man
Wipe Out
The Lion Sleeps Tonight
Too Hip!
Mustang Sally
Wild Wild West
Word Up
The Time Warp
Respect
Hey Baby
And, if after all of that you still want more, you can hear the rest at the MB "Sights and Sounds" website.
I know I just started,but I must now get started on my homework...sorry. But I do hope to write in here from time to time still. I'll try. But we'll see.
As always,
Josh
mood: fairly stressed
music: George!
location: dorm
But nonetheless, I do miss having the time to write in here. I hope my loyal readers haven't taken my lack of writing as a sign that I have stopped caring about those at home. On the contrary, I miss you all as much now (if not more) than before. So I am not closing this blog...you'll just have to forgive me if my entries are few and far between.
On a lighter note, the band website was finally fixed! Do you know what that means?! Multimedia extravaganza!! Theoretically, click on the links below to hear some Mustang Band goodness. (I personally am experiencing problems with this process...if simply clicking on the links doesn't work, try right-clicking on them and saving the files to your computer and playing them.)
The two you have to listen to:
George!
Ride High, You Mustangs (fight song)
Others I might draw your attention to:
I'm a Man
Wipe Out
The Lion Sleeps Tonight
Too Hip!
Mustang Sally
Wild Wild West
Word Up
The Time Warp
Respect
Hey Baby
And, if after all of that you still want more, you can hear the rest at the MB "Sights and Sounds" website.
I know I just started,but I must now get started on my homework...sorry. But I do hope to write in here from time to time still. I'll try. But we'll see.
As always,
Josh
mood: fairly stressed
music: George!
location: dorm
Wednesday, January 05, 2005
Breathe Into Your Butt
Tuesday was a long day. Starts at 9:30, ends at 9:00, with only two hours of break in there. But the good news is that Wednesdays aren't as bad, and Thursdays are the last day of the week. So maybe it will be worth it, and maybe it won't. I have not yet experienced the joy of no class on Friday, so I cannot judge. Oh well.
My first programming class was yesterday. We didn't learn all that much, but I did create my first program ever. I would reproduce it for you here except that Blogger reads my program and actually tries to execute it, which creates all sorts of problems. So I'll just have to tell you that it was a very simple program, one that's only function is to print out my name surrounded by a frame of pluses and minuses. My program worked on the first try; I was very excited. I cannot tell how easy or hard this class will be. We're learning the Java language, which my professor says is a difficult language to start with. Also, a large majority of the class seems to already have programming experience, so I'm not sure what I'm expected to know coming into this class. But I do think that I will enjoy the subject matter, and that always helps. And hey, if I hate the class, then this can be the last one that I take. (Remember? I'm going for the computer science minor. But if I ditch that I might be able to graduate sooner. And by sooner, I mean on time.)
I had both speech and chem again. There is nothing to report there except that chem is two and a half hours on Tuesday instead of just one, like it is on Monday. That's a lot of chem. I enjoy chem when I understand it, but therein lies the problem. We're supposedly reviewing tomorrow what we were supposed to have learned in high school, so hopefully that will help.
I also had my industrial/manufacturing engineering lecture yesterday. I learned a little bit about how to produce a printed circuit board. Woot.
Band immediately followed that. We have two new trumpets joining us this quarter, so I am no longer the new guy...very exciting. And as the two of them will be playing third part, Mike (section leader) decided that he needed a second to move to first and a third to move to second. So I got promoted, evidently due to the fact that Mike thinks I'm a pretty good player or something. So hooray! I liked third part...it was nice and easy. But second probably won't be much harder. And it's nice to feel like I'm making progress.
--Sleep--
I got up this morning for an 8:00 class, the only one in my schedule. It was the IME lab. I spent the morning creating a schematic for a circuit board, a process which had both its good and bad moments. Good? I had fun placing all the wires between all of the pins on all of the components, without letting any of the wires cross. Bad? Creating the logical schematic (as opposed to the physical schematic) was a pain in my butt...the program I had to use to do it was very touchy, and it took much longer than it should have. But overall, I think I enjoyed it. Over the quarter I will be building a power supply box from scratch, which means I'll be folding a piece of sheet metal into a box, punching holes in it, designing a circuit board for it, building that circuit board myself (which includes etching all of the wires onto it), and wiring all of the external parts together into the box to create a functional power supply. Learn by doing, right?
The only other interesting thing today was in speech. We spent the day learning relaxation techniques, which - among other things - involved laying on the floor for ten minutes, exhaling all of the tension out of my body. But here's the interesting part: I stayed after class to ask Ms. Stauffer about the speech I'm giving a week from Monday, and she made the comment that she thought that I'll be a good public speaker. I'm not sure how she knows considering that I haven't really spoken much in class yet, but she says she can tell. Maybe she knows what she's talking about, and maybe not. But regardless, her comment lifted my spirits somewhat. And that's always good.
And there you have it: another entry completed. I have to admit that I'm starting to have to force myself to write these...I might have to start writing shorter entries or writing less often or something. I don't know. My only problem with writing less often is that I hate to have to summarize so much at once. And I never know what to eliminate if I want to write shorter entries. So I don't know what I'm going to do. But for now, I'm good for today.
Have a good rest of your week. (My rest of the week? One day!)
Cheers,
Josh
mood: bleh
music: Kevin practicing viola (he's joined symphony orchestra now)
location: dorm
My first programming class was yesterday. We didn't learn all that much, but I did create my first program ever. I would reproduce it for you here except that Blogger reads my program and actually tries to execute it, which creates all sorts of problems. So I'll just have to tell you that it was a very simple program, one that's only function is to print out my name surrounded by a frame of pluses and minuses. My program worked on the first try; I was very excited. I cannot tell how easy or hard this class will be. We're learning the Java language, which my professor says is a difficult language to start with. Also, a large majority of the class seems to already have programming experience, so I'm not sure what I'm expected to know coming into this class. But I do think that I will enjoy the subject matter, and that always helps. And hey, if I hate the class, then this can be the last one that I take. (Remember? I'm going for the computer science minor. But if I ditch that I might be able to graduate sooner. And by sooner, I mean on time.)
I had both speech and chem again. There is nothing to report there except that chem is two and a half hours on Tuesday instead of just one, like it is on Monday. That's a lot of chem. I enjoy chem when I understand it, but therein lies the problem. We're supposedly reviewing tomorrow what we were supposed to have learned in high school, so hopefully that will help.
I also had my industrial/manufacturing engineering lecture yesterday. I learned a little bit about how to produce a printed circuit board. Woot.
Band immediately followed that. We have two new trumpets joining us this quarter, so I am no longer the new guy...very exciting. And as the two of them will be playing third part, Mike (section leader) decided that he needed a second to move to first and a third to move to second. So I got promoted, evidently due to the fact that Mike thinks I'm a pretty good player or something. So hooray! I liked third part...it was nice and easy. But second probably won't be much harder. And it's nice to feel like I'm making progress.
--Sleep--
I got up this morning for an 8:00 class, the only one in my schedule. It was the IME lab. I spent the morning creating a schematic for a circuit board, a process which had both its good and bad moments. Good? I had fun placing all the wires between all of the pins on all of the components, without letting any of the wires cross. Bad? Creating the logical schematic (as opposed to the physical schematic) was a pain in my butt...the program I had to use to do it was very touchy, and it took much longer than it should have. But overall, I think I enjoyed it. Over the quarter I will be building a power supply box from scratch, which means I'll be folding a piece of sheet metal into a box, punching holes in it, designing a circuit board for it, building that circuit board myself (which includes etching all of the wires onto it), and wiring all of the external parts together into the box to create a functional power supply. Learn by doing, right?
The only other interesting thing today was in speech. We spent the day learning relaxation techniques, which - among other things - involved laying on the floor for ten minutes, exhaling all of the tension out of my body. But here's the interesting part: I stayed after class to ask Ms. Stauffer about the speech I'm giving a week from Monday, and she made the comment that she thought that I'll be a good public speaker. I'm not sure how she knows considering that I haven't really spoken much in class yet, but she says she can tell. Maybe she knows what she's talking about, and maybe not. But regardless, her comment lifted my spirits somewhat. And that's always good.
And there you have it: another entry completed. I have to admit that I'm starting to have to force myself to write these...I might have to start writing shorter entries or writing less often or something. I don't know. My only problem with writing less often is that I hate to have to summarize so much at once. And I never know what to eliminate if I want to write shorter entries. So I don't know what I'm going to do. But for now, I'm good for today.
Have a good rest of your week. (My rest of the week? One day!)
Cheers,
Josh
mood: bleh
music: Kevin practicing viola (he's joined symphony orchestra now)
location: dorm
Monday, January 03, 2005
Winter Quarter Commences
Well I'm back in good ol' San Luis Obispo. It's good to be here in a lot of ways, but I'm also very homesick, quite possibly moreso than when I first moved up here. I think it has a lot to do with the instability of my life right now...leaving all of my old friends in San Diego behind all over again and coming back to school to stay in the dorms, to take new and harder classes, and in general to stop living in the bubble I've been living in for the last nineteen years. I'm sure I'll adjust back to life up here, but it's often a slow process. At least I'm not starting from scratch.
As I said in my last entry, for whatever reason I don't really feel like writing about my Christmas break. It's not that I didn't enjoy it, I just don't feel the need to write about it. So I won't. But, in short:
--Christmas was good. Dad got a compass, Mom got a CD and a print of some chili peppers and some Spanish-looking pots, which we'll have framed. A bunch of other people got some stuff from me, my favorite being the Disneyland Detective book I got for Stacie, which gives her all sorts of trivia about the magic kingdom, including the locations of several hidden mickeys. This year was the first year that I was more excited to give the presents I got for people than to receive presents for myself. Hooray for maturity! But, if you're interested, I received some DVDs, Upwords (which is Scrabble for people with vocabularies limited to words of five letters or less), a giftcard or two, a big book of puzzles/brain teasers, a couple of CDs, a San Diego calendar (now hanging on my closet door), and a couple of other things. And let's not forget the car. All in all, I think Christmas was a success.
--Jenna, Joanna, Stacie, and I went to Ruby's on the Oceanside pier for dinner on New Year's Eve, which is the second year in a row. We spent the remainder of the evening at Stacie's (where Irene came to meet us) to watch Will & Grace, Reno 911, and a recording of the speech I gave at my 5th grade promotion, which Joanna happened to come across in Fresno. Joanna spilled Martinelli's on the carpet at midnight. Yay 2005! Quite memorable.
--Spent a lot of time trying to get someone to install the CD player in my car. This was quite an epic adventure, involving failures to return calls, malfunctioning adapters, a couple of orders and subsequent cancellations of them, and a solution in the end that would have removed the need for all of the trouble had it been discovered sooner. But, long story short, the CD player works. So woot.
And in general I relaxed, hung around with friends, and did not much in particular, which was exactly the break that I wanted. I took Kevin and my friend Nate home on Sunday, expecting heavy traffic after hearing tales of mudslides on the 101 and predictions of rainstorms. But, much to my delight, there was the least amount of traffic I had ever seen, and it only rained for maybe an hour or so. We made the trip in four and a half hours, without stopping once. (Now before you go crazy on me for driving fast, I'd like to point out that my average speed was only 71 mph. I'd also like to point out that Joanna went from Fresno to Rancho Bernardo in 4:45.) Upon arrival in SLO, I enjoyed my late afternoon and evening.
And that's pretty much all that needs to be said about all of that.
Today was the start of the winter quarter. My schedule is as follows:
Monday
11:10-12:00 Circuits Analysis I
2:10-3:00 Public Speaking
3:10-4:00 Chemistry
5:10-6:30 Wind Orchestra
Tuesday
9:40-11:00 Fundamentals of Computer Science Lecture
12:10-1:30 Fundamentals of Computer Science Lab
2:10-3:00 Public Speaking
3:10-5:30 Chemistry
6:10-7:00 Basic Electronics Manufacturing Lecture
7:10-9:00 Mustang Band
Wednesday
8:10-11:00 Basic Electronics Manufacturing Lab
11:10-12:00 Circuits Analysis I
2:10-3:00 Public Speaking
5:10-6:30 Wind Orchestra
Thursday
9:40-11:00 Fundamentals of Computer Science Lecture
12:10-1:30 Fundamentals of Computer Science Lab
2:10-3:00 Public Speaking
3:10-5:30 Chemistry
Friday
**no class**
So today I had three new classes. It's hard to tell whether or not I'll like circuits analysis or not...a portion of it is review from physics E&M last year, but a lot of it will be new. I am excited, however, to have my first EE class where I will actually learn something about EE. Can I get a "woot woot"?
I really like my speech professor, Erma Stauffer. I don't know how to describe her other than to say that she has a colorful personality, which I guess is what you would expect from someone teaching public speaking. I look forward to this class. I give my first speech on Monday...a three-minute description of myself...
Chemistry is going to be hard, but not quite as hard as everyone says it is. That's my prediction, at least. I read through almost four of the five chapters I'm supposed to know already (from high school chemistry) and I've remembered all of it so far. The class itself will be challenging, but I don't have a problem with teaching myself out of the book the things I didn't understand in lecture. So chem will take a little more work, but I'm not too scared. It'll give me something to do on Fridays.
And that was all for new classes. We received three new pieces in windO today, and scrapped one we had been planning to play. This is good in that I'll have more variety in what I get to play this quarter. This is bad in that the music is frickin' high for trumpets. J mentioned something about needing a piano player for one of the pieces...maybe I can get out of having to play first trumpet that way. We'll see...
For dinner I went with Rosalie, Heather, and Rosalie's friend from home Danielle (who's visiting for a couple of days) to the Big Sky Cafe, to have some "modern food." We went there to have some out-of-the-ordinary food, so I of course ordered the most ordinary thing on the menu: a chicken sandwich. It sounds a lot more boring than it actually was. And hey, give me some credit: I ordered tortilla soup with it instead of french fries. See? I don't live in a bubble completely...
And that was today. Tomorrow I get to go to my computer science class. I'm so excited. If I like it enough, changing majors wouldn't be out of the question, as I haven't been completely sure EE is exactly what I want to do. So this quarter will be good: one EE class and one CSC class. Hopefully I can get a better grasp of what each one is about. I'm sure I'll enjoy both.
For now, I'm off to bed. Good night!
Cheers,
Josh
mood: homesick, and excited for class tomorrow
music: none
location: dorm
As I said in my last entry, for whatever reason I don't really feel like writing about my Christmas break. It's not that I didn't enjoy it, I just don't feel the need to write about it. So I won't. But, in short:
--Christmas was good. Dad got a compass, Mom got a CD and a print of some chili peppers and some Spanish-looking pots, which we'll have framed. A bunch of other people got some stuff from me, my favorite being the Disneyland Detective book I got for Stacie, which gives her all sorts of trivia about the magic kingdom, including the locations of several hidden mickeys. This year was the first year that I was more excited to give the presents I got for people than to receive presents for myself. Hooray for maturity! But, if you're interested, I received some DVDs, Upwords (which is Scrabble for people with vocabularies limited to words of five letters or less), a giftcard or two, a big book of puzzles/brain teasers, a couple of CDs, a San Diego calendar (now hanging on my closet door), and a couple of other things. And let's not forget the car. All in all, I think Christmas was a success.
--Jenna, Joanna, Stacie, and I went to Ruby's on the Oceanside pier for dinner on New Year's Eve, which is the second year in a row. We spent the remainder of the evening at Stacie's (where Irene came to meet us) to watch Will & Grace, Reno 911, and a recording of the speech I gave at my 5th grade promotion, which Joanna happened to come across in Fresno. Joanna spilled Martinelli's on the carpet at midnight. Yay 2005! Quite memorable.
--Spent a lot of time trying to get someone to install the CD player in my car. This was quite an epic adventure, involving failures to return calls, malfunctioning adapters, a couple of orders and subsequent cancellations of them, and a solution in the end that would have removed the need for all of the trouble had it been discovered sooner. But, long story short, the CD player works. So woot.
And in general I relaxed, hung around with friends, and did not much in particular, which was exactly the break that I wanted. I took Kevin and my friend Nate home on Sunday, expecting heavy traffic after hearing tales of mudslides on the 101 and predictions of rainstorms. But, much to my delight, there was the least amount of traffic I had ever seen, and it only rained for maybe an hour or so. We made the trip in four and a half hours, without stopping once. (Now before you go crazy on me for driving fast, I'd like to point out that my average speed was only 71 mph. I'd also like to point out that Joanna went from Fresno to Rancho Bernardo in 4:45.) Upon arrival in SLO, I enjoyed my late afternoon and evening.
And that's pretty much all that needs to be said about all of that.
Today was the start of the winter quarter. My schedule is as follows:
Monday
11:10-12:00 Circuits Analysis I
2:10-3:00 Public Speaking
3:10-4:00 Chemistry
5:10-6:30 Wind Orchestra
Tuesday
9:40-11:00 Fundamentals of Computer Science Lecture
12:10-1:30 Fundamentals of Computer Science Lab
2:10-3:00 Public Speaking
3:10-5:30 Chemistry
6:10-7:00 Basic Electronics Manufacturing Lecture
7:10-9:00 Mustang Band
Wednesday
8:10-11:00 Basic Electronics Manufacturing Lab
11:10-12:00 Circuits Analysis I
2:10-3:00 Public Speaking
5:10-6:30 Wind Orchestra
Thursday
9:40-11:00 Fundamentals of Computer Science Lecture
12:10-1:30 Fundamentals of Computer Science Lab
2:10-3:00 Public Speaking
3:10-5:30 Chemistry
Friday
**no class**
So today I had three new classes. It's hard to tell whether or not I'll like circuits analysis or not...a portion of it is review from physics E&M last year, but a lot of it will be new. I am excited, however, to have my first EE class where I will actually learn something about EE. Can I get a "woot woot"?
I really like my speech professor, Erma Stauffer. I don't know how to describe her other than to say that she has a colorful personality, which I guess is what you would expect from someone teaching public speaking. I look forward to this class. I give my first speech on Monday...a three-minute description of myself...
Chemistry is going to be hard, but not quite as hard as everyone says it is. That's my prediction, at least. I read through almost four of the five chapters I'm supposed to know already (from high school chemistry) and I've remembered all of it so far. The class itself will be challenging, but I don't have a problem with teaching myself out of the book the things I didn't understand in lecture. So chem will take a little more work, but I'm not too scared. It'll give me something to do on Fridays.
And that was all for new classes. We received three new pieces in windO today, and scrapped one we had been planning to play. This is good in that I'll have more variety in what I get to play this quarter. This is bad in that the music is frickin' high for trumpets. J mentioned something about needing a piano player for one of the pieces...maybe I can get out of having to play first trumpet that way. We'll see...
For dinner I went with Rosalie, Heather, and Rosalie's friend from home Danielle (who's visiting for a couple of days) to the Big Sky Cafe, to have some "modern food." We went there to have some out-of-the-ordinary food, so I of course ordered the most ordinary thing on the menu: a chicken sandwich. It sounds a lot more boring than it actually was. And hey, give me some credit: I ordered tortilla soup with it instead of french fries. See? I don't live in a bubble completely...
And that was today. Tomorrow I get to go to my computer science class. I'm so excited. If I like it enough, changing majors wouldn't be out of the question, as I haven't been completely sure EE is exactly what I want to do. So this quarter will be good: one EE class and one CSC class. Hopefully I can get a better grasp of what each one is about. I'm sure I'll enjoy both.
For now, I'm off to bed. Good night!
Cheers,
Josh
mood: homesick, and excited for class tomorrow
music: none
location: dorm
