get the straightjacket

Ok I think I've revamped this whole college schedule hullabaloo, and I've come out even more victorious than previously thought. It looks very much like, if I have this figured out properly, that I can have TWO MAJORS AND FIVE, count them, FIVE MINORS in FOUR YEARS! YEEHAW!

Maj1: Engineering Math w/ emphasis on the construction, production, and reliability of materials
Maj2: Applied Math with emphasis on statistical computation
Min1: Mechanical Engineering
Min2: Aerospace Engineering
Min3: Systems Engineering
Min4: Economics (to help with the Systems aspect)
Min5: Physics (to help with the theoretical aspect)

But then there's the easy way out. Coasing on 13 units (~4 classes) for the next 5 semesters. That means graduating a year early AND on easy street

Maj: Applied Statistics
Min1: Mechanical Eng
Min2: Econ (cuz otherwise I wouldn't have enough units) (insert geisha giggle)

But my roommate wants to sleep. Laters! can you believe it I'm the wild one! Well, there are the other two on the other side of the room, but I don't share a lamp with them.

But it's ironic that I'm doing a skit for English about a woman in a mental institute cuz, by the looks of t, I should be there!

Clockwork Orange is a very very very very very very very very very very very verv verv very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very weird movie

so sleepy

it's hard to type quietly especially when your roommate's asleep in hisbed ad oou've only finished part o the work you needed to do. Bu sleep calls out my name.

And what did I tell you? 12 pages.

I don't know if you've heard it thorugh the grapevine or not Elise, but we had a commotion here ssince we had our first suicide of the year at the UA by the DDR machines. It freaked me out specially since I had a freaky weird dream on Sunday night, so I was worried for a good part of the day. Then when they released the guy's name, it was good in the sense that it wasn't anybodyI personally knew, but still, a guy died...

but maybe 3 hours' dreams will be gentle.

crapples

Remember that impending doom I kept yapping about? well i think it's arrived. I have a rough draft of a 12 page English project due friday, a 20 minute Powerpoint presentation on the movie Clockwork Orange due next Thursday which is bad since a) I know NOTHING about powerpoint and b) I don't even know what the movie is about. I have 3 tests in the near future (one on Thursday, one next Monday, and another next Friday) and, above all that, I'm getting sick.

But enough ranting. Ive got my schedule all signed up for next semester (this is like the ONE perk of being an honors student- earlier registartion) and overall it's not bad. A lot like this semester, except NO CHEM LAB!!!! Also I'm serioulsy thinking about CLEPping for regular Chem 103b, so I could drop my honors chem 105b and then I would only have 1 class on Mondays and Fridays! That would be uber awesome.

Until further notice, my schedule:

Mondays:
Therodynamics AME 230 @9
Honors Introduction to chemistry Chem 105b@ 12

Tuesday:
Medieval Answers to modern problems GER 278 @ 930
Statics CE 214 @ 11
Chem 105b discussion group @ 1230
Differential Equations Math 254@ 2
Elements of Electrical Engineering ECE 207@ 330

Wedndesday:
same AME
Diff Eq discussion group @ 11
same chem

Thursday:
same as Tuesday, except no discussion group

Friday:
same as Monday

But then if I change my major, which as you know I'm constantly pondering about, then I'd likely have to make up the chem lab since the CLEP doesn't include that either. 3 hours of abyssmal despair a week for a different piece of paper? Idunno...

Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming.

And I think I want a girlfriend, though there are many reasons why.

decisions, decisions

Whew. I'm feeling a lot better now. Mom's out of the hospital, and homeowkr/tests are taking a general break.

Now to register for next semester. after parental approval , I can either take Medieval German philosophy, which I think sounds cool, or an Honors course of Shakespearean plays (reading and analyzing). They're at the same time. So, I am opening a poll. Cast your vote and help set democracy in action!

M: 2 classes
T: 5 (workin' 9 to 5....)
W:3
Th:4
F:2

normalcy is dead

Place your bets now on whether Mitchy will have an aneurism before he graduates ifrom college. Right now the odds are 3:1 in favor of, so those of you risk takers can make a lot of money on this!!!!!!

Nothing is sane right now. Absolutely fucking nothing. But I can't say it's not my fault.

I need to stop making this a once a week affair

I need to get on the blogging ball. Idunno it just seems like everybody's distacing themselves from everyone else, and it's not cool. We oughtn't let a few miles or new schools keep us separated. Maybe if we all blogged a little more than it wouldn't feel this way.

It's been weird. yesterday I just felt like crying all day, and today has just been one awesome thing after another. Funny how life works like that. Idunno there was just something about Oldendorfer talking about people hunting baby mastodons that rubbed me the wrong way. And of course that's probably why mastodons aren't around anymore.

In belgium they have a commercial where all the Smurfs die. It's an anti-war cartoon.

When I bought Panda Express before my dreaded Chem Lab midterm, I opened the fortune cookie and, I can't explain it, it broke so fucking perfectly. Not straight down the middle, but it made this perfect little zigzag down the center so that the two cookies were exactly alike. Had I the technology, I would've tried to sell it on eBay. It was just so beautiful, so unflawed. now if I find out that all the cookies do that then I'm gonna get really pissed off.

It also turns out that the guy I've ben sitting next to in my TRAD class for the past two months also went to UHS. Jeff Peters, he was one year ahead of us. I thought he looked familiar, but I didn't want to ask him cause otherwise it would've sounded stupid. then he was ranting about how the Alice vail team lost in 2000 to booth-Fickett because the two teams tied but it came down to the team score and Fickett had one more point in that round so Fickett won. I didn't have the nerve to tell him that I was on the Fickett team that year. then we had our lecture on baby mastodons dying.

But that was then, this is now. My Engineering class' solar oven kicked serious butt. 10 minutes in, we were already past the boiling point of water! But then the clouds came in, but then with our super insulation, ourr cooled down a lot less quickly then the others. So, had it not been for the clouds, who knows how high it cold' ve rechaed?

Wow, it just thundered outside. Oh, I'm only happy when it rains............

the week in review

My room roomie is out for the weekend, so I have 100 square feet al to my lonesome. Of course, my other roomies are still here, so I have to share things but that's normal.

...and I just got a leg cramp. Probably from all the walking I have to do since I have to walk a good two blocks to even reach campus. Seriously it takes a good 20-25 minute walk to get from home to my English class, Not that it's "far" (well it is to me) just that it takes a lot of time.

Getting smacked by midterms. Scored a B in my engineering test. If I weren't on a strict schedule and scholarship constraint, I'd be pleased. Screwed up on my math test (The arctan (t^3) was in the freakin denominator! How did I ignore that?!). and struggled thorugh my chem test today. maybe if I learned the names of these stupid comppounds then I could get more points. Well I had a 95% average as of this morning, so we'll just have to see how much I have to work on the next test and, afterwards, the final.

But for the most part this is the good life. Yesterday before chem lab, I got to listen to some mariachi band perfomring by the administartion building. that was refreshing. Then my chem lab only took 2 and a half hours, hooray! Again, I think the impending doom is still approaching, but it's just being more subtle.

If I declare a double major before the end of the spring, I CAN have senior stauts after this spring. Turns out the college of science recognizes 87 or so units as senior status, while the engineering college requires like 98. So coming in with 55 units (plus 3 depending on my English grade) was maybe a good thing, after all.

And I think I've already got my schedule for next fall lined up. 2 Math classes, 1 Engineering, a computer class (EEK!) and the last gen ed class I'd ever have to take. (probably Russian art as a reflection of the economic and political changes in the 20th century- pretty basic stuff.) It's just weird. You come to college thinking you can take all these different classes at your own leisure and here I am trying to figure exactly which classes I have to take up to my 3rd "senior" year
teeheehee. again, not that helps at all with degree expediency. but it sure sounds cool. Gonna have to go talk with my advisor on that. Plus I'd have to take AME 250 Dynamics over the summer, which would be my first summer school EVER!

And, at last, I am alone. PARTY TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And Happy Birthday Saturday, Dev.

Condoms and boobies

I'm really tired. I don't know why, or exactly what I'm tired of. Just, ugh, everything is really annoting at the moment. Even spending time with my family seems like a burden. "Oh, I'd be doing homework," I say as they convince me to stay a while longer. And why can I feel so bad about my folks? I love them, they love me, it's pretty platonic. But for some reason whenever I'm with them it seems like a complete and utter waste of time. But I'm sure that has to do with actually being in college, finding your roots, discovering yourself, yadda yadda yadda.

Got some cheap shorts at Wal mart yesterday. Turns out they were clearanced at 3 bucks. Sure, they're made cheap and are thin, but that's what plus sized summer shorts are supposed to be. Then, after getting home, I found that my pocket had its own little pocket inside. "Hey! I can put my loose change in this pocket I found!" I proclaim.

"Oh no," my mom says. "That pocket's for condoms."

........................wait, wha? Condoms? What on earth is she talking about? It just felt really awkward. Not that I have a need to even think about buying them or anythig like that (or ever had an actual reason for that matter...) but it sounds weird when your mom blabs about condoms. that's all. I don;t know if she was trying to allude to anything, but it was just weird.

I think I'm gonna sign up for two gen ed art clases next semester and then I'll drop the one I don't like. It's down to Poetry once a week at 5-830 or rock history thrice a week at 1000 hours. Giggles, if you read this, yoiu still wanna try and sign up for at least A class together? I'm open to most anything, except dance. The line has to be drawn somewhere.

But now I'm back at Sky view, my folks are alone, and I still haven't done one single piece of homewokr this weekend. But lots and lots of movies are nice. Corpse bride, Anchorman, and the one I had to view for English, Death and the Maiden (so named from the Schubert piece that is a key part of the plot.) Elise, if you're up to date on your Argentinian history and string quartet pieces, you might like this. Except it shows Sigourney Weaver's boobies.