Still learning your way around campus? Why yes, UNR Facebook Page, I am. However did you know?
OHHH that 10 minute jog around the south end of the school? Yeah that might have been an indicator.
On the bright side, I woke up at 7 as I planned to yesterday, which gave me plenty of time to go eat a giant waffle at the cafe, and go to the Engineering building to get a Lab Computer sign-in name. Getting back to the dorms was the adventure. Oh well. I made it. That's what matters. I also saw a girl playing with her chocolate lab puppy, so that made me feel good about my day in general. So then I went "home" :-P showered, dried off, cursed my third bloody nose in 6 days, and went to read my CS 135 homework. I'm seriously wondering what my performance will be like in that class.
But at 10:45 I went to Calc (didn't need a full hour to find it this morning) and "learned" about vectors. And was trying not to fall asleep. I may need to seriously disappoint some people and cut down on my late night social times. So, I "learned" and got one idea wrong when he asked a question to the class, he refreshed my memory, and all was well. At least I had the balls to speak up. And of course I was in the front row, so the people in back probably didn't even hear my mistake. Reason number X to sit in the front.
Walked off to the Engineering building to prepare for my CS lab in an hour (week one, I believe in being extremely early, even to the point of idiocy), saw my CS lecture professor, and asked him a few questions that I was needing to talk to him about. I also identified myself as the student that had emailed him about a week ago regarding other issues, so I believe he will recognize me in future classes now.
I vote that Minecraft Server Admin be a veritable job that I can put on a professional resume. It feels like a part time job, at the very least, and I'm sure I put more than 20 hours per week into that bloody server.
Sorry, just venting after a 20 minute stint playing judge over some cheating drama. Immature kids.
CS Lab was soo COOL! I got to actually program stuff! Granted, it was simple and stupidly basic, but I DONT CARE! We were given a full program, and once we understood how certain parts of it worked, we had to edit it to output what we wanted instead!
So it would show
*****
*****
*****
when we press Run,
and we had to make it show
*
***
*****
*******
and related changes, using a total of 3 different formats. I blazed through it, and made it all the way to the instructions for turning it in. Less homework for who? Oh, me. I was in a goood mood.
Then I got back to my dorm and decided it was time to be tech manager of the stupid server again. I won't bore anyone with that. Philosophy next! Let's see if I can earn that Minor I covet so dearly.
A waking up from a nap made me more pensive and less elated. Too many thoughts and conflicts at once, and all too relevant to me. Of course, everything is relevant, and knowing that all the time really can be a heavy weight on a mind. "Knowing all the time" I wonder what that means. Eh. Unhappy Jeremy. Hope it doesn't carry into class in half an hour. Not so happy about my minor choice now. Don't know why. Fear? Can't figure it out. The question is: How do I figure it out? I think my mood is going to have a negative impact on the people around me if I keep this up. Not easy to explain it though, since people have already noticed.
Urgh.
I don't know. Can I avoid them until they forget about today? Stupid thought. That would do more harm than help. And I'm always the first to know that, aren't I.
What a Dumb class. An opinionated Professor, an undesirable I-Tell-You-What-This-Means-You-Can't-Interpret-It-So-Take-Notes-And-Listen-To-My-Bad-Jokes teaching method, a bad mood, and trying not to pass out from exhaustion made that class extremely droppable. Only my care for Philosophy in general is holding me back, and I'm leaning toward the mindset that I don't need a class to help me love thought. Ah I didn't mention that my stomach was in pain, and I think it's from not eating since breakfast. Who knows. So how about I go find food and try to explain my anti-social behavior to a couple people.
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Monday, August 29, 2011
First day
Monday, August 29th
First day of classes
Woke up at 10, had class at 11. Left for a small free bagel/muffin thing nearby, then started to find the building. Had absolutely no luck. Went back to the Quad to find a map, searched for the building (Orvis School of Nursing, don't ask why Calc 3 is in there) and failed again. So I went to my phone to google map it. It was no where near what the map said, then I realized I was looking at the grid for the other column, and the map had it perfectly labeled. So, with a little annoyance and 30 minutes left, I walked over, and saw the room, which had no label saying MATH at all. So I said screw it, I'll wait anyways, and ended up getting the right room. The professor is cool, he actually cares about calc 3, unlike calc 1-2 according to him. He actually made me anticipate the things I'm going to learn in that class. Only downside is he gave us our first homework assignment already, to write him a letter about us, similar to the one he gave us on our syllubus. There were about 70 people in the class according to him, though it looked more like 40.
So I got out of there after 50 minutes, and headed off to the next building for English 102. I didn't have it until 2:30, but on the first day, I don't take chances. So I messed around on my laptop until I got bored, helped a few people find classrooms, lent one my laptop so he could find out which class he was supposed to be going to, and at 2:15 I went into room 207 for class. Turns out I have 2 classes with someone already, and she also happens to be the only Freshman Math Major (out of 5) who is in Calc 3 level.
Well English should be interesting. Every 102 course is themed, and ours is Popular Art & Culture. So I get to analyze pop culture, understand it, discuss it, and write essays on it. Sounds like Seminar all over again, with more warning. The syllubus says right on it: Short essays (x3) 8% each; Long essays (x3) 12% each; and the due dates for all 6. Not looking forward to that. In addition, if we are absent for more than 3 days total, we lose 5% of our grade per day, barring emergencies. So after reading over that paper, we got into 12 groups of 2 (full attendance too that day) and then proceeded to introduce our partner to the class, naming them, where they were from, their major, 3 pop culture likes, and one dislike. Afterwards, we were let out 45 minutes early because there wasn't anything to do on the first day with introductions. So I walked over to the next building (that I'll have 15 minutes to walk to on a normal day) and sat down to write the first part of this until class started at 4.
So Computer Science blew my mind, so much information in so little time, and he actually didn't even cover all the topics, we have to go online and find the syllabus on a School page I never knew existed.
And then I had SCI 110, which made me feel like I was in Astronomy again, with people who didn't know their butts from a hole in the ground. A few exceptions, but, you get it. We were lent clickers to use for the duration of the class, and one of the students asked "hey if we push the buttons, will it break?" along with another classmate wondering "are you going to tell us how to use this?" I couldn't help but respond to that one out loud, "Nope, you're on your own."
So I have to look at the online stuff in CS, write an introductory letter for Calc, and write a Thank You letter to someone influential to my college choice. And you can guess that last one came from none other than my 'repeat freshman year, you're all IQ 50' SCI 110. One credit from one useless course.
Now I can go have a social life with the girls down the hall, and screw homework. Yay for procrastination. But at least now I'm not doing it in favor of computer games? Excuse? Yes. Care? Not really, no.
So we went to In and Out, I didn't eat though, since I'd just had dinner before we hung out. It was me, 3 suitemates, and 3 girls from room 204. Apparently they enjoy singing britney spears songs, or at the very least get one stuck in their heads. I wasn't in that car, so I wouldn't know. However I did deign to join them on the way back, and while fearing for my life in traffic, I did have a good time. After, we went to their room again, and listened to the iPod of one of them. And I knew about 2% of the songs that came out of it. Whenever a particularly bad song came on I'd walk outside and pop in my Animusic (it helps me relax in general) until the song I was listening to was over, and walk back in. Then I showed them what a real nerd listens to, and belted out the Backstreet boys I know so well. Followed it up with Aladdin, and finished it off with the Circle of Life. Disney can rock it out. Looks like I get to do my CS homework in the morning. Too bad it IS morning. Bye people, until tomorrow/today.
First day of classes
Woke up at 10, had class at 11. Left for a small free bagel/muffin thing nearby, then started to find the building. Had absolutely no luck. Went back to the Quad to find a map, searched for the building (Orvis School of Nursing, don't ask why Calc 3 is in there) and failed again. So I went to my phone to google map it. It was no where near what the map said, then I realized I was looking at the grid for the other column, and the map had it perfectly labeled. So, with a little annoyance and 30 minutes left, I walked over, and saw the room, which had no label saying MATH at all. So I said screw it, I'll wait anyways, and ended up getting the right room. The professor is cool, he actually cares about calc 3, unlike calc 1-2 according to him. He actually made me anticipate the things I'm going to learn in that class. Only downside is he gave us our first homework assignment already, to write him a letter about us, similar to the one he gave us on our syllubus. There were about 70 people in the class according to him, though it looked more like 40.
So I got out of there after 50 minutes, and headed off to the next building for English 102. I didn't have it until 2:30, but on the first day, I don't take chances. So I messed around on my laptop until I got bored, helped a few people find classrooms, lent one my laptop so he could find out which class he was supposed to be going to, and at 2:15 I went into room 207 for class. Turns out I have 2 classes with someone already, and she also happens to be the only Freshman Math Major (out of 5) who is in Calc 3 level.
Well English should be interesting. Every 102 course is themed, and ours is Popular Art & Culture. So I get to analyze pop culture, understand it, discuss it, and write essays on it. Sounds like Seminar all over again, with more warning. The syllubus says right on it: Short essays (x3) 8% each; Long essays (x3) 12% each; and the due dates for all 6. Not looking forward to that. In addition, if we are absent for more than 3 days total, we lose 5% of our grade per day, barring emergencies. So after reading over that paper, we got into 12 groups of 2 (full attendance too that day) and then proceeded to introduce our partner to the class, naming them, where they were from, their major, 3 pop culture likes, and one dislike. Afterwards, we were let out 45 minutes early because there wasn't anything to do on the first day with introductions. So I walked over to the next building (that I'll have 15 minutes to walk to on a normal day) and sat down to write the first part of this until class started at 4.
So Computer Science blew my mind, so much information in so little time, and he actually didn't even cover all the topics, we have to go online and find the syllabus on a School page I never knew existed.
And then I had SCI 110, which made me feel like I was in Astronomy again, with people who didn't know their butts from a hole in the ground. A few exceptions, but, you get it. We were lent clickers to use for the duration of the class, and one of the students asked "hey if we push the buttons, will it break?" along with another classmate wondering "are you going to tell us how to use this?" I couldn't help but respond to that one out loud, "Nope, you're on your own."
So I have to look at the online stuff in CS, write an introductory letter for Calc, and write a Thank You letter to someone influential to my college choice. And you can guess that last one came from none other than my 'repeat freshman year, you're all IQ 50' SCI 110. One credit from one useless course.
Now I can go have a social life with the girls down the hall, and screw homework. Yay for procrastination. But at least now I'm not doing it in favor of computer games? Excuse? Yes. Care? Not really, no.
So we went to In and Out, I didn't eat though, since I'd just had dinner before we hung out. It was me, 3 suitemates, and 3 girls from room 204. Apparently they enjoy singing britney spears songs, or at the very least get one stuck in their heads. I wasn't in that car, so I wouldn't know. However I did deign to join them on the way back, and while fearing for my life in traffic, I did have a good time. After, we went to their room again, and listened to the iPod of one of them. And I knew about 2% of the songs that came out of it. Whenever a particularly bad song came on I'd walk outside and pop in my Animusic (it helps me relax in general) until the song I was listening to was over, and walk back in. Then I showed them what a real nerd listens to, and belted out the Backstreet boys I know so well. Followed it up with Aladdin, and finished it off with the Circle of Life. Disney can rock it out. Looks like I get to do my CS homework in the morning. Too bad it IS morning. Bye people, until tomorrow/today.
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