Tag: Asides

End of Year/Quarter Stuff

The past quarter has come and gone and now it is time to enjoy the little bit of summer that I have before classes start. I am not concerned that I won’t have any summer to enjoy, because I will, but it just won’t be me sitting around doing nothing. I have a VLPA to take and work to be at. Nevertheless, I am looking forward to summer, even more so since grades came out a few days ago.

Now, I must say that I am a little surprised with what I got for grades. I mean, some were higher than expected (INFO 380) and some were right about what I thought they would be (INFO 340/310). But, the thing that threw me off was that I got credit for my FIG Training class. I didn’t expect this because I hardly every made that class (like 3 times w/ 2 weeks off) because of my crazy schedule from the past quarter. When I saw that I got credit, I was pretty stoked.

Also, in other school related news… I won the Henry Scholarship that was open to all continuing Informatics majors. So, I get a $1,500 credit to my Autumn tuition. That should be nice to have since I have out of state tuition. I was pretty excited to win this and it took me off guard a few days ago when I got notice that I had won it.

Really, I’m pretty pleased on how I did in classes last year. My cumulative GPA rose to almost a 3.6 and I made the Annual Dean’s List for the second time. I can only hope that I can keep it up next year and end strong.

Truckin’ Along

Man, I’m beat. I must sleep seeing that this week will be quite busy and long. I cannot say that I am looking forward tomorrow, or any day this week. But, I will be taking it a day at a time and rolling with the punches. Deflection is key in a week like this. You need to bounce, recover, and move on. If you don’t do this you will fall behind without the chance to make anything up.

The 380 proposal is shaping up quite well and it will be completed by tomorrow night or early Wednesday morning. It just all depends at this point. I figure that after a 9 hour combined editing effort between Jamie and myself it is time to put it to rest for tonight. Tomorrow will bring another day of editing and lame work that I don’t want to do (F I G). It will get done, no doubts about that, I just don’t feel like working right now. Is chill time too much to ask?

I usually don’t make random posts like this anymore, but I am just so tired that I don’t know any better. So, I’ll let the time stamp do the talking since my bed is weeping as I have been neglecting it for the past 4 hours.

Current Feeling:Tired, but ready for what is next
Listening to: DMB Live @ Central Park

This is Strange…

For some reason last night when working on my deliverable for 340 in the TE Lab I did not feel any pressure to get it done. I rarely ever have studying left to at last moment like I did last night. However, last night I was content with just getting what I could completed before it was due the next day. It was really strange for me. I also noticed that I have been really calm the past few days. I don’t know why that is. Have I finally hit the wall and just want a break? Maybe. But, in either case it is so nice to just be calm and to enjoy each day to the fullest.

Current Feeling: Content

Getting Burnt Out

It has come to that time when the academic year is beginning to wind down and the level of attentiveness is falling rapidly. Classes are starting to pick up the workload and time is lacking to get all of these tasks done. Now, one look at my calendar and you will see that I have free time to use for my own personal use, but I just feel really busy in general. Tomorrow is a presentation for 310 (which will rock) and a draft of our systems proposal is due in 380 (is 96 pages enough?). Also, in addition to all of that I need to start on the 340 deliverable. So much to do and little motivation to do it.

My time is disappearing and I am getting burnt out quite quickly. I need a break from school and to just relax. I can’t wait for those two weeks off in June before summer classes begin. I am less than a month from the end of the year, but it is not coming soon enough. I know that next Tuesday I will have this large sigh of relief when this is all of this stuff is due and over with. But, until then, time seems to be ticking really, really slow. I know that things will be alright, I just need to take a step back and relax, breathe, and then move forward with what I need to do.

Current Thought: Be calm. Things will be alright.
Currently Attending: INFO 340 with Prof. David Hendry

What Was Once 89 Cents Is No More

On Saturday night on the way to Murphy’s in Wallingford I was on the bus with Jamie and I had made the observation that gas was really expensive. Now, this isn’t the same expensive I thought about when I was in high school. I thought gas prices of $1.20 to $1.50 was expensive. I have had no concept of how gas prices have risen over the past 3 years for a few reasons:

  1. I don’t have a car at school. Why worry about what gas costs when you don’t have a car?
  2. When I am home, I am ususally not there long enough to purchase a tank of gas
  3. I was driven to work by my mother all summer long *INSERT JOKE HERE*

I had no real need to know how much gas is costing. I know that there have been some issues with OPEC and the oil distributing nations not outputting as much as in the past, plus add on top of that the war in Iraq and Afghanistan and I that will lead to a rise in petrol prices.

I guess the only real reason that I even post about this is the fact that I was taken off guard. To see gas prices in the $2+ range just blew my mind. Now, this is the west coast and I have noticed that the prices here are a little higher, not by much, than in the midwest. But, still, that is a lot to fill up a tank of gas. I thought $30-35 every 10 days was bad back in high school. Man, I am glad that I can take that $35 and have a UPass for an entire quarter to ride the Metro as much as I want.