Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Still learning your way around campus?

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.

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