Hypothesis: If I tone down my computer and internet usage, it will positively impact my grades, extracurriculars, and social life.
Procedure: I bought World of Warcraft.
Conclusion: yeop
Showing posts with label school. Show all posts
Showing posts with label school. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Wednesday, October 03, 2007
Touche, Sir
In a brazen display of complete disregard for learning, the gentleman to my right is playing his Nintendo DS during class, elbows on the table, completely engrossed.
I must admit I admire his style.
I must admit I admire his style.
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Wooo College
Another year, another bout of freaking out wondering where I'm going to get the money from.
Tuesday, May 08, 2007
Monday, April 23, 2007
Saturday, December 23, 2006
The Darkest of Winters
[instrumental]
So, I finally found a use for my Moleskine notebook: I wrote down stuff I was going to blog about. Here they are, in no particular order:
Keeping a notebook nearby is infinitely handy. Being able to write down everything running through my head (in this case, a myriad number of events that I'd been meaning to blog about) enables me to feel relieved knowing I'm not going to forget some important detail. I plan on using my Moleskine much more often once I get a pack of sexy Pilot very fine rollerball pens.
Besides the notebook, one thing I took to using much more often is the ever-useful sticky note. Sticky notes let me remember tiny random tasks that I needed to do as well as provide a much-needed catharsis once the task was completed via tearing it down and crushing it in my fist. I plan on using them much more often next semester to help my rein in my homework and project habits and Get Things Done.
Being at home now with lots of free time enables me to reflect back on the previous semester and realize how marginally awful it was. Although it seemed to finish before it started, it feels like I did far less work this semester than before; spring semester last year I busted my ass doing Physics work and everything while this semester I ended up skipping lots of (admittedly worthless) classes and studying less. This lack of work accurately reflects my grades for this semester, which, while not awful, are certainly not representative of the work I can do. I'm absolutely positive that I can do well if I put my mind to it due to my ability to perform very well on finals that I actually study for; it seems I ended up doing best on my math final out of all the tests in the class even though it was cumulative, and the same goes for EECS 281 even though the answers weren't spoon-fed to us this time. I must say, though, I'm still jealous of people - say, in the Biochemistry department - who get to take lots of classes with either no final exam or a non-cumulative final. As far as I know, I'm going to be rocking five finals next semester.
Now that school is out, however, I can enjoy the wonderfully wintry weather in Ohio (currently consisting of an overcast sky and 40° weather - it rained yesterday) and the absence of Laura and my fellow Case undergrads. I still have a few topics to touch on, but many days of winter break left. Let's not rush it, yeah?
Postscript: Demetri Martin is hilarious.
So, I finally found a use for my Moleskine notebook: I wrote down stuff I was going to blog about. Here they are, in no particular order:
Keeping a notebook nearby is infinitely handy. Being able to write down everything running through my head (in this case, a myriad number of events that I'd been meaning to blog about) enables me to feel relieved knowing I'm not going to forget some important detail. I plan on using my Moleskine much more often once I get a pack of sexy Pilot very fine rollerball pens.
Besides the notebook, one thing I took to using much more often is the ever-useful sticky note. Sticky notes let me remember tiny random tasks that I needed to do as well as provide a much-needed catharsis once the task was completed via tearing it down and crushing it in my fist. I plan on using them much more often next semester to help my rein in my homework and project habits and Get Things Done.
Being at home now with lots of free time enables me to reflect back on the previous semester and realize how marginally awful it was. Although it seemed to finish before it started, it feels like I did far less work this semester than before; spring semester last year I busted my ass doing Physics work and everything while this semester I ended up skipping lots of (admittedly worthless) classes and studying less. This lack of work accurately reflects my grades for this semester, which, while not awful, are certainly not representative of the work I can do. I'm absolutely positive that I can do well if I put my mind to it due to my ability to perform very well on finals that I actually study for; it seems I ended up doing best on my math final out of all the tests in the class even though it was cumulative, and the same goes for EECS 281 even though the answers weren't spoon-fed to us this time. I must say, though, I'm still jealous of people - say, in the Biochemistry department - who get to take lots of classes with either no final exam or a non-cumulative final. As far as I know, I'm going to be rocking five finals next semester.
Now that school is out, however, I can enjoy the wonderfully wintry weather in Ohio (currently consisting of an overcast sky and 40° weather - it rained yesterday) and the absence of Laura and my fellow Case undergrads. I still have a few topics to touch on, but many days of winter break left. Let's not rush it, yeah?
Postscript: Demetri Martin is hilarious.
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
I Was Born to Go Down Fighting
So yeah.
Via the omnipresent Digg: Vista is here. Who cares?
I just finished my first class of the semester, USSY 220 Digital Storytelling. All in all, not a bad course and I wouldn't mind reccommending it to other people. It's fairly work-free as far as seminars go. Plus, you get to make goofy videos (I'll resize my group's and post it eventually). The rest of the semester's classes shall proceed to pass into the night with nary a care. All I care about now is a.) finishing the season of Heroes so far and b.) exams.
Time now for c.) sleep.
Via the omnipresent Digg: Vista is here. Who cares?
I just finished my first class of the semester, USSY 220 Digital Storytelling. All in all, not a bad course and I wouldn't mind reccommending it to other people. It's fairly work-free as far as seminars go. Plus, you get to make goofy videos (I'll resize my group's and post it eventually). The rest of the semester's classes shall proceed to pass into the night with nary a care. All I care about now is a.) finishing the season of Heroes so far and b.) exams.
Time now for c.) sleep.
Saturday, November 11, 2006
And It Begins
Now I begin the arduous task of composing a rough draft for my twelve-page SAGES research paper, which includes poring through at least five books on psychology (a subject I've never taken a class on, much less written a paper about).
WHAT HAS SCIENCE DONE.
WHAT HAS SCIENCE DONE.
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Sunday, May 14, 2006
Finale
Okay, someone was bugging me to update, so I guess I will.
School year #1 is officially over. Final grades:
Calc III: A
SAGES: A
Photography Studio I: A
Physics I: B
Chem. of Materials: C
At least I'm done with chemistry now and can actually focus on classes that have real information.
So basically my time now has been spent worrying over what to do for a summer job. Basically, I have no idea what's good to do or where's good to go to. All jobs kinda suck. I'm hoping I can get some sort of job at Case next semester or maybe apply for a job with PerceptIS. I'm trying to both convince myself to look for a job ASAP and put it out of my mind so I stop worrying, which isn't very conducive to fixing the situation or putting money in my pocket. Hopefully an opportunity will present itself.
School year #1 is officially over. Final grades:
Calc III: A
SAGES: A
Photography Studio I: A
Physics I: B
Chem. of Materials: C
At least I'm done with chemistry now and can actually focus on classes that have real information.
So basically my time now has been spent worrying over what to do for a summer job. Basically, I have no idea what's good to do or where's good to go to. All jobs kinda suck. I'm hoping I can get some sort of job at Case next semester or maybe apply for a job with PerceptIS. I'm trying to both convince myself to look for a job ASAP and put it out of my mind so I stop worrying, which isn't very conducive to fixing the situation or putting money in my pocket. Hopefully an opportunity will present itself.
Tuesday, May 09, 2006
Miserable Failure
Not so much.
Still awaiting grades in three of my classes; hopefully they will be the As I require.
The last couple weeks have been rather hectic, involving much more studying than I've ever done for anything before. Hopefully, all those hours spent in the library chugging Mountain Dew will pay off (I've probably had around ten liters of Dew in the last week or so).
Summer quickly approaches...
Still awaiting grades in three of my classes; hopefully they will be the As I require.
The last couple weeks have been rather hectic, involving much more studying than I've ever done for anything before. Hopefully, all those hours spent in the library chugging Mountain Dew will pay off (I've probably had around ten liters of Dew in the last week or so).
Summer quickly approaches...
Thursday, April 06, 2006
Epidemic
Everyone in the world is getting sick. It started with Jon and proceeded to Vaso and now a bunch of people on our floor. Somehow, though, both Vaso and Laura have whatever's going around, yet it hasn't transferred itself to me yet. My immune system's power is awesome.
I've simply been tired often, despite getting more sleep than usual this week (possibly somehow related to Daylight Savings Time). Yesterday was fairly bad, although I think I'm gradually getting better to adapting to a heavy workload. I was effectively engaged from 9:30 AM to 9:00 PM: class from 9:30 until 12:20, then lunch, a nap to survive the rest of the day, helping Laura with photography, SAGES, dinner, and physics lab. Lab was actually a relief, though, as it seemed crazy-short. We actually spent extra time in lab after we finished the data collection to perform the analysis, so effectively all we need to do is write the report rather than finishing half the lab the day before it's due.
As for other work: my previous roll of film actually developed fine last week, but I boned up the prints I was making. Fortunately, I think I'll have every project finished (developed) as of tonight, and I'll just have to print the results. In theory, it shouldn't take very long at all (barring any more stupidity on my part like dirty negatives). Here's hoping I can pull an A in this class because I think it'll be likely that I drop to a B in Calculus.
Our Engineering test today wasn't nearly as hilarious as the previous two due to me actually having a small inkling of the material we had covered (though a few problems were complete stumpers - ENGR 145 is interesting in that you can do very very well just by having a lot of equations at your disposal and plugging in stuff but do very very poorly if you forget that one equation you thought you didn't need but is half the test material). At least I'll do better than the 55.4% I collected on last Friday's physics exam - I'll let the professor deal with that when the time comes to curve the class (class average for that test: 46%). The only things I have to deal with in the next week or so are photography tonight, a physics lab report which will be a piece of cake, and a SAGES paper due Monday on who-knows-what; I have yet to decide the topic. I'm looking forward to getting done with all of my work and everyone getting less disease ridden.
Classwork aside, the biggest news of the last few days is Apple's release of the Boot Camp public beta. Apple-sanctioned Windows XP on MacBooks = woot. Windows XP, with appropriate drivers, apparently runs about as well as a comparably powerful Windows laptop. This is excellent news; none of this Virtual PC stuff any more. All I require now is a MacBook and I'll be set.
Also, my fantasy baseball team needs to play better. First place for a day left me with a desire for fresh blood / home runs.
I've simply been tired often, despite getting more sleep than usual this week (possibly somehow related to Daylight Savings Time). Yesterday was fairly bad, although I think I'm gradually getting better to adapting to a heavy workload. I was effectively engaged from 9:30 AM to 9:00 PM: class from 9:30 until 12:20, then lunch, a nap to survive the rest of the day, helping Laura with photography, SAGES, dinner, and physics lab. Lab was actually a relief, though, as it seemed crazy-short. We actually spent extra time in lab after we finished the data collection to perform the analysis, so effectively all we need to do is write the report rather than finishing half the lab the day before it's due.
As for other work: my previous roll of film actually developed fine last week, but I boned up the prints I was making. Fortunately, I think I'll have every project finished (developed) as of tonight, and I'll just have to print the results. In theory, it shouldn't take very long at all (barring any more stupidity on my part like dirty negatives). Here's hoping I can pull an A in this class because I think it'll be likely that I drop to a B in Calculus.
Our Engineering test today wasn't nearly as hilarious as the previous two due to me actually having a small inkling of the material we had covered (though a few problems were complete stumpers - ENGR 145 is interesting in that you can do very very well just by having a lot of equations at your disposal and plugging in stuff but do very very poorly if you forget that one equation you thought you didn't need but is half the test material). At least I'll do better than the 55.4% I collected on last Friday's physics exam - I'll let the professor deal with that when the time comes to curve the class (class average for that test: 46%). The only things I have to deal with in the next week or so are photography tonight, a physics lab report which will be a piece of cake, and a SAGES paper due Monday on who-knows-what; I have yet to decide the topic. I'm looking forward to getting done with all of my work and everyone getting less disease ridden.
Classwork aside, the biggest news of the last few days is Apple's release of the Boot Camp public beta. Apple-sanctioned Windows XP on MacBooks = woot. Windows XP, with appropriate drivers, apparently runs about as well as a comparably powerful Windows laptop. This is excellent news; none of this Virtual PC stuff any more. All I require now is a MacBook and I'll be set.
Also, my fantasy baseball team needs to play better. First place for a day left me with a desire for fresh blood / home runs.
Thursday, March 16, 2006
Oh Snap: Hundert Resigns
This is it, folks: in the face of a successful vote of no-confidence, President Hundert has officially tendered his resignation, effective September 1st, 2006. The Board of Trustees accepted his resignation and will begin the process of selecting a new president before his term is officially over. His letter of resignation in full is online at CasePoint (probably only temporarily).
The times, they are a-changin'.
The times, they are a-changin'.
Saturday, March 11, 2006
Spring Break
Wow. I just checked my Engineering 145 grade on a whim... and discovered that I didn't fail the last exam after all. In fact, after extra credit, I got an 83%. This means I'm officially getting a B in 145. Ridiculous!
I went to Borders today since my mom wanted to get a book. I ended up getting House of Leaves. Seems to be quite an interesting book.
My ability to obtain rest is totally broken. I slept for eight or so hours last night and all I've wanted to do all day is pass out. Seems like it's a bad idea to run on four hours of sleep a night for a week.
Oh, what a week.
I went to Borders today since my mom wanted to get a book. I ended up getting House of Leaves. Seems to be quite an interesting book.
My ability to obtain rest is totally broken. I slept for eight or so hours last night and all I've wanted to do all day is pass out. Seems like it's a bad idea to run on four hours of sleep a night for a week.
Oh, what a week.
Friday, March 03, 2006
No Confidence
Wooo, we hate our administration. The faculty commenced a vote of no confidence in Case President Edward Hundert (passing 131-44) and Provost John Anderson (passing 97-68), though the exact ramifications of this remain unclear as of yet. Essentially, it means that the faculty at Case has no faith in the administration any longer.
Unfortunately, it may not (read: likely will not) have any effect on the running of the university as it currently is; the president, love him or hate him, simply implements whatever policies the Board of Trustees pays him to implement. As the Board of Trustees is the only body that can remove Hundert, and he's doing his job for them very well, it seems very unlikely that any sort of noticable change will occur in the (mis)administration of Case for some time.
Sigh.
As a completely unrelated note, Engineering 145 is worthless.
Unfortunately, it may not (read: likely will not) have any effect on the running of the university as it currently is; the president, love him or hate him, simply implements whatever policies the Board of Trustees pays him to implement. As the Board of Trustees is the only body that can remove Hundert, and he's doing his job for them very well, it seems very unlikely that any sort of noticable change will occur in the (mis)administration of Case for some time.
Sigh.
As a completely unrelated note, Engineering 145 is worthless.
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Bah
I would've posted earlier but the internets were not moving in my favor.
New Apple products, yay. Intel Mac Minis, software updates, leather iPod cases (for a whopping $99), and the iPod Hi-Fi all were announced. Still waiting for more laptops...
I made prints for one of my projects today at the photo lab and they turned out okay. They're, uh... mostly grey, but probably usable. Oh well. I blame the limitations of greyscale photography. Oh yeah, and I left my Case ID at the photo lab (sign-in requirement is to leave your ID with the assistant) and didn't realize it until I was back at north-side. So, we had to run all the way back down to the lab to get my ID and run all the way back. Hooray, I feel like death.
I'll probably have to start Physics homework tonight too. Bah.
New Apple products, yay. Intel Mac Minis, software updates, leather iPod cases (for a whopping $99), and the iPod Hi-Fi all were announced. Still waiting for more laptops...
I made prints for one of my projects today at the photo lab and they turned out okay. They're, uh... mostly grey, but probably usable. Oh well. I blame the limitations of greyscale photography. Oh yeah, and I left my Case ID at the photo lab (sign-in requirement is to leave your ID with the assistant) and didn't realize it until I was back at north-side. So, we had to run all the way back down to the lab to get my ID and run all the way back. Hooray, I feel like death.
I'll probably have to start Physics homework tonight too. Bah.
No Means No
Slow Tuesday.
I made it to my recitation on time, handed in my homework and took an easy quiz. Success. Later I get to go back to the photography lab and do two more prints; only then will my midterm be a success.
Developing photos sucks.
Also, our housing form was turned in today by I. Hopefully all will go as planned and we'll all get Clarke Tower. I don't want to be stuck on South Side...
I made it to my recitation on time, handed in my homework and took an easy quiz. Success. Later I get to go back to the photography lab and do two more prints; only then will my midterm be a success.
Developing photos sucks.
Also, our housing form was turned in today by I. Hopefully all will go as planned and we'll all get Clarke Tower. I don't want to be stuck on South Side...
Friday, February 24, 2006
Fotografía
Stress...
I realized upon developing my latest roll of film that I'll have to redo one of my projects and fiddle with another to get a workable picture. Photography is definitely my most stressful class, for some reason. I'm pretty confident in Physics, Calc and SAGES now, and I don't really care about Engineering 145 one way or the other. It's a bullshit class for a Comp. Sci., anyways.
I'm slowly but surely working on code for MY WEBSIGHT. I've always been meaning to learn CSS, but I never really had any reason to because all free hosting system available sucked. Now I've got university bandwidth to waste, plus possibly a Google Page for extra storage. I might as well dig into PHP, too, while I'm at it... maybe SQL if I'm feeling daring. Not like the resources aren't available to me here to learn it.
Today I am to develop pictures after classes... hopefully they'll turn out better than the last batch. Fingers crossed.
I realized upon developing my latest roll of film that I'll have to redo one of my projects and fiddle with another to get a workable picture. Photography is definitely my most stressful class, for some reason. I'm pretty confident in Physics, Calc and SAGES now, and I don't really care about Engineering 145 one way or the other. It's a bullshit class for a Comp. Sci., anyways.
I'm slowly but surely working on code for MY WEBSIGHT. I've always been meaning to learn CSS, but I never really had any reason to because all free hosting system available sucked. Now I've got university bandwidth to waste, plus possibly a Google Page for extra storage. I might as well dig into PHP, too, while I'm at it... maybe SQL if I'm feeling daring. Not like the resources aren't available to me here to learn it.
Today I am to develop pictures after classes... hopefully they'll turn out better than the last batch. Fingers crossed.
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