Tag: School

Blog in class

Well, I am sitting here in INFO 311 and my friend David was asking me if I was writing on my xanga. So, I decided to post this because this class is quite boring and I have nothing better to do. I mean, my PDA has 802.11b so I can just surf the web in class. This probably is not a good use of class time, but oh well… Time to go Tho is presenting.

Weekend. What Weekend?

Well the weekend has come and basically gone. It was spent doing some fun things (poker, mafia, IKEA!!!) and some not so fun things (studying). But, overall the weekend was good. I moved my bed around in my room and now it is higher off the gound than before. This is nothing that new to me since my bed it kinda far off the ground at home, but being so low to the ground was nice, I could just fall out of bed and go onto my business. But, yeah… The weekend was nice. Got to hang out with some cool new people on Friday when we played poker and then later moved to a friend’s apartment to play Mafia and just hang out. This was nice to get to meet some new people from around where I live. I see many of them all the time and I feel like I should at least know their name. Now I do.

But yeah, man, studying sucks. I mean, this goes without saying, but it always seems that I spend a majority of my time just catching up. But, I can’t complain, I will always find time for my friends and for meeting new people. So, I can’t bitch too bad. Overall a good weekend, now it’s time for the week to begin. I start work this week, but my Dad will be up at the end of the week and it will be nice to see him for a little bit. So, until then….

Recursion

Ok, today I spent a good three hours with the Info people working on this lame ass CSE 373 homework. Not only did it suck big time but we found that recursion sucks. If you don’t know what recursion is, well basically it is a function that calls itself over and over until it meets a condition that will make it stop calling itself. So, in basic terms it’s like this: You are told to say count up one at a time over and over until you reach one hundred. When you reach one hundred you just say, “Ok, I’m done.” With the frustration of recursion we found the following funny quotes funny:

– Suck me recursively until NULL.
– Love me recursively.
– Recursion sucks @$$!
– CSE 373 sucks recursively, forever and ever.
– Eat me recursively.
– Annoy me more recursively. (Like this is hard to do ;))

Where has all my time gone?

Ok, not that this is a really interesting topic, but hear me out. Initially when this quarter started I was taking 18 credits (which is 3 over a full time student). I figured that this would not be so bad because of the course content that I was registered for. But, after only one day in my IS class, I realized that not only was this class not what I had thought, but it totally sucked. So, in the wisest decision that I have made all quarter, I dropped that classtaking my schedule back down 13 credits.

Now, 13 credits seem like not a lot of credits to be taking. Well, yea, you are right. It is not that much. But, for some reason my INFO 311 prof likes to assign a ridiculous amount of reading for every class, and I think I speak for many when I say that some of it is quite boring and not simulating to read at all. So, spending all of my day off from class this week reading for 10 hours straight was not exactly my type of fun. But, wait Ryan, you went boarding on Saturday, then a party that night and another party for a friend the next night, so what’s your bitch about? Well, ok, fine… I did have fun this weekend… Ask some people that were there on Saturday…

But, it just seems that school is consuming me with things that are not as interesting to me as they were last quarter. I mean, I really enjoy the Informatics major, but some of the material is not really in what I want to get out of the program. Nevertheless, I have to take these classes because they are apart of my graduating. Also, on top of all the reading I have the unfortunate displeasure of taking yet another CSE class. I hate CSE with a passion and I think that this professor would rather bore us to death than do anything else. But, againI have no choice, and I will pay for it.

I guess I am just frustrated with how my time is disappearing this quarter. I am having less time for myself and more time that is being dedicated in the TE Lab, reading, catching up, doing CSE, or doing other stupid stuff. Also, with me starting a job tomorrow (Wed) I know my time will be more valuable then ever for myself and for those that I want to spend time with. So, with that said, I think some change is in order in where my commitments are and where they should be. I am pretty close now, but I just feel that if I can’tgo all out, I should just stay home and pass on the torch to someone else.