So, I won't be going to school next semester. I'll be working...unless I REALLY screw something up this summer.
I've spent a little time lately fixing up my xbox even further...I have finally gotten around to configuring an snes emulator, a Gameboy/Gameboy Advance emulator, a playstation emulator and an n64 emulator (the last two struggle a little with performance...they need some more tweaking, I think). I have some sweet media center capabilities and loads of games on the harddrive...Considering that I didn't like the xbox as a console for such a long time, I'm surprised at how much I really enjoy it now. (Although, I guess, in terms of functionality, I really only use it as an xbox...almost never)
I've also been playing guitar a lot more lately. I've been improving enough that it is obviously noticeable, but I'm nowhere near where I'd like to be. More practice! I also still need to buy a replacement pot for it...one of them is totally shot.
Friday, April 13, 2007
Friday, April 6, 2007
School
I'm pretty stressed right now. My classes (which I've meant to post about, by the way) have been rough lately.
VLSI - This is my favorite class. It relates very closely to the things I worked with at AMD. The labs for this class are pretty long (my report for the second one was like, 80 pages) but there are only 3 for the whole semester...plus, I have a pretty fun time working on them.
Concurrent and Distributed Programming - This class's homework assignments (programming labs) are a pain in the ass. The assignments are just so poorly laid out that one of the 4 assignments wasn't finished being defined until AFTER the initial deadline (there was an extension).
Digital Signal Processing - This class isn't very fun because it's a continuation of the only EE class I've had that I can say I hated. The professor for this one is a lot better than my other prof, but the material is just not interesting to me. The labs were pretty easy, but they got hard, just recently.
History - Erin and I are in this class together. It's not too bad. Professor is pretty decent (read: not boring). We do have kind of large reading assignments (sometimes about shit that I don't think relates) but I think that's to be expected.
Government - I had a different professor, but he wanted us to subscribe to the New York Times, which I didn't feel (I don't have that kind of money, asshole!) so I changed my class...the professor I ended up having was about 99,000x better than the previous one...he's actually interesting. The tests are multiple choice and I always lose exactly 10 points (about 4-5 questions) because I just forget some detail.
I might not be going to school next semester (I return to AMD for the summer and might be able to work all through next semester as well).
Home life -
My parents have custody of my 2 half-nephews (my dad's daughter from a previous marriage has two kids...well, Georgia took them away from her...and in the end, my parents wound up with them). I don't mind too much, because I don't have to go to Katy that often...but they're pretty loud when I do go back =\
I've been playing the guitar a lot more lately. The Bb and B chords are still kind of tough to play for me. My fingers are just kind of big and cramming three fingers into such a small proximity is a little tough.
I had been using Ubuntu (Linux for Human Beings) for about a year, but I got really tired of the community and upset with the fact that the project seems to have lost their initial goals; I moved to Fedora. I like it better, actually. The OS is, for the most part, a lot easier to configure (although it takes some more knowledge to start with) and it runs faster.
Erin and I are doing pretty well. We've had to carpool pretty much the entire semester because Erin's mom sent the Civic (Erin's mom's car) to Erin's brother at Tech...and Erin and her mom have been sharing the station wagon (Erin gets it usually one day a week)....but now Erin's mom just bought a new car, so the last 2 weeks or so of school will be a bit nicer, I guess.
It's weird that my friends are graduating this semester...I honestly don't even really want to leave school just yet (I'd really like to go to grad school) but I need to make some money before I can do that.
This blog may or may not die just like the old one.....oh well.
VLSI - This is my favorite class. It relates very closely to the things I worked with at AMD. The labs for this class are pretty long (my report for the second one was like, 80 pages) but there are only 3 for the whole semester...plus, I have a pretty fun time working on them.
Concurrent and Distributed Programming - This class's homework assignments (programming labs) are a pain in the ass. The assignments are just so poorly laid out that one of the 4 assignments wasn't finished being defined until AFTER the initial deadline (there was an extension).
Digital Signal Processing - This class isn't very fun because it's a continuation of the only EE class I've had that I can say I hated. The professor for this one is a lot better than my other prof, but the material is just not interesting to me. The labs were pretty easy, but they got hard, just recently.
History - Erin and I are in this class together. It's not too bad. Professor is pretty decent (read: not boring). We do have kind of large reading assignments (sometimes about shit that I don't think relates) but I think that's to be expected.
Government - I had a different professor, but he wanted us to subscribe to the New York Times, which I didn't feel (I don't have that kind of money, asshole!) so I changed my class...the professor I ended up having was about 99,000x better than the previous one...he's actually interesting. The tests are multiple choice and I always lose exactly 10 points (about 4-5 questions) because I just forget some detail.
I might not be going to school next semester (I return to AMD for the summer and might be able to work all through next semester as well).
Home life -
My parents have custody of my 2 half-nephews (my dad's daughter from a previous marriage has two kids...well, Georgia took them away from her...and in the end, my parents wound up with them). I don't mind too much, because I don't have to go to Katy that often...but they're pretty loud when I do go back =\
I've been playing the guitar a lot more lately. The Bb and B chords are still kind of tough to play for me. My fingers are just kind of big and cramming three fingers into such a small proximity is a little tough.
I had been using Ubuntu (Linux for Human Beings) for about a year, but I got really tired of the community and upset with the fact that the project seems to have lost their initial goals; I moved to Fedora. I like it better, actually. The OS is, for the most part, a lot easier to configure (although it takes some more knowledge to start with) and it runs faster.
Erin and I are doing pretty well. We've had to carpool pretty much the entire semester because Erin's mom sent the Civic (Erin's mom's car) to Erin's brother at Tech...and Erin and her mom have been sharing the station wagon (Erin gets it usually one day a week)....but now Erin's mom just bought a new car, so the last 2 weeks or so of school will be a bit nicer, I guess.
It's weird that my friends are graduating this semester...I honestly don't even really want to leave school just yet (I'd really like to go to grad school) but I need to make some money before I can do that.
This blog may or may not die just like the old one.....oh well.
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