Oh yeah…. by some miracle I got a 4.0gpa again this spring. I don’t know what it is. One of my ex-girlfriend’s parents once said that I was bringing her grades down. Maybe it worked two ways? (Yes, Rachel, I’m kidding!) Anyway. I only have one class this summer (English 314) so you’d think I could commit the time to getting a good grade in it. Well… we’ll just see how things go I suppose.
Category Archives: School
Pain in my side
I think a horse kicked me in the side or something when I was sleeping. It hurts something awful now. Oh well. Today all I have is my 362 "presentation" which should hopefully take less than 10 minutes… and it’s with my entire group. Then I have two bus-driving shifts. Sometime I need to go to RadioShack and get my free vinyl CDrs. Free stuff is always good. Especially when it’s instant!
Productive day
Wow, today was really productive for me. Let’s see.. I started out with a CS309 exam, which I think I did pretty well on. Well.. I hope so.
Then I made 3 phone calls I’ve been meaning to make in a long time. I ordered Chanhassen tickets for July (got them for $30 less than I was expecting!!!). I cancelled my evil CreditInform. And I made… um… another call that I’ve been meaning to do. Then I drove an empty cardinal bus for 3 hours. w00t.
Finally I came home and started on my CS362 take-home, quickly realizing that I should’ve started a lot earlier. Oh well… I finished that up too. My other grades in that class have been really good, so I’m not super-worried about it.
I can go to sleep in peace finally! Well… until Friday morning.
I can see a light at the end of the tunnel!
According to the last post:
CprE 305: Project finish, needs testing and a paper written by partner
ComS 309: Making progress, meeting all this weekend to finish it
ComS 362: Still no clue on that one, but our 3rd exam is a take-home 🙂
Music304: Paper turned in. Now just a last exam, plus 2% extra credit for showing up finals week.
End-of-semester blues
CprE 305: Project due next Friday that I barely started today
ComS 309: Project due dead week that we actually have started on, but not much
ComS 362: Project due ??? that no one has done ANYTHING on yet
Music304: Paper due in less than 2 weeks that I haven’t started.
I’m quite ready for summer… can I just time-jump there now?
I’m bad at updating
So last weekend our choir went to Chicago. It was okay… the highlight of the trip was going to the top of the Sears tower. Wait…. that was the only thing I did. Besides going to Ed Debevik’s and riding my first taxi-van. A couple of my friends had their SO’s on the trip with them, and I started to think about how much I was missing Amanda, and how much better Chicago would be with her there too. Then on the bus ride home I made a huge personal journal entry which ended up just making me feel worse. Yesterday was just kindof a bummer all around, but I got to laugh at the people swaying on my bus when I crossed Knoll road. More importantly, I talked to Amanda a bunch. Not that we really resolved anything, but I ended up feeling better and getting a good night’s sleep. I’m not grumpy anymore… I guess my current mood is just…. “Meh”
Velcro is such a wierd thing
I’m so glad I dropped my 10am class. No running across campus on a snowy day like today; plus, I get a whole hour to piddle around online and update my websites for all my loyal viewers! … yeah right.
Anyway, not much happening today. Yesterday was pretty stressful, working almost 6 hours and then enduring a 2-hour group meeting for a project. This class requires us to do a semester-long project in a graphical, object-oriented language, with only C++ as a prerequisite. Somehow this seems very wrong. Have a course to teach you a language, and then a course in software engineering… not the other way around. Bleh. Somehow I don’t see another 4.0 happening this semester 😛
I’ve also made a re-commitment this weekend. Nothing that I’ll go into detail on here, but my closest friends know about it, and, though it will probably be very difficult (I’ve already had some trying times in the first two days), I’m pretty confident that I can pull through this with a little bit of Outside Help.
Yay, typical ambiguous Ben there…. yup yup. Anyway…. I’m gonna go play with my website now.
What a crazy life.
I can distincly recall three times over the last two weeks when I wanted to update but didn’t. However, I cannot recall what I was going to update about, so nuts to that.
Let’s see. Thanksgiving break was great. I got to spend a lot of time with Amanda, got to build my new computer. finished a paper or two, and had Thanksgiving with the whole family. All nieces and nephews present (I can say that now that I have 2 nephews…. well 3 if you count ny niece’s new husband). Then I spent a couple days at Amanda’s home and got to play a bunch with Luis, the cute little puffball. He seemed to like it when I mooed, so either I should become a cow, or he will be well suited to his dairy-farm life. Moo
Coming back to school, of course I had two projects due at 5pm today so that was lovely. Of course I worked on them a bunch last night. Now I have an exam on Thursday, and a cookbook lab plus a big lab project in EE333 to finish by next week. Other than that, things look pretty cake-easy. Stress-free end (hopefully) to a good semester.
Okay week.
I think this week will be okay. Sometimes I get really stressed out about things, but when I can relax and take things easily… it’s so much less stressful. I have a CprE211 exam on Thursday, but it’s not over interrupts, so I should be fine. My Math 307 quiz was pushed back ’till next week. We’ll see this afternoon how I did on my CprE310 exam a couple weeks ago. EE333 lab will be another thing, but hopefully I can trudge through that without too much difficulty. Finished my homework that’s due at 3:30 today. No problem. Uh…. not much else to report.
So ends one of my most boring posts ever…. (but somebody says they read them so I might as well keep it up)
Is this an obligation?
My Crazylife client just popped up on my comptuer while I was doing homework. I programmed it to do this so I would remember to update, but now I’m updating instead of studying!
um, well…. Saturday I took a 5.5 hour shift and ended up almost killing a blind guy. (Yeah I went all GTA with the bus….. um no). I was trying to tell him when it was clear to cross the street (30th by walmart) when some yutz zooms across grand going about 50 and doesn’t slow down for the blind guy in the middle of the road. I had to yell stop. And I didn’t hear what he said back to me. It was either very sarcastic and mean or a thanks. I’m pessimistic, so I’ll think it was the former and hope he doesn’t ride my bus again.
Yesterday was sunday. Meh. Drive and attempt to do homework. Fun fun. About the same today. Though when I was actually studying for my math quiz tomorrow (on the living room futon with the windows open is actually a nice place to study) my roommate gave me a Star Trek book and I ended up reading it for 2 hours. Oops. So now I’ll try to comprehend this last section of "Orthogonal Transformations and Orthogonal Matricies." Doesn’t sound too hard.