false positive

I have a big test tomorrowand yet I'm eerily not worried at all. i studied a smidge this evening, made a cheat sheet (the prof said we could have one) , mostly used it for converting from metric to Eglish units. It counts for 15% of the total grade, so its stil a big deal, and yet I'm not sweating over it. What is this thing, confidence? Apathy?! A gut feeling that no matter what you do you'll still be above the class curve? (I'm at like 80% right now, and the class average is like 60%, so I'm in good shape so far.) Whatever.

which group of bars is most aesthetically pleasing?

The left one has everything I need, but it's hectic. The middle one has some slight discrepencies as to whether it'll work, but if it all does then it's great, and the one on the right has a couple more, but has the most room for feng shui.

What will it be?

like a brick

It's kinda funny. This morning I was trying to get ready to get to math. I had overslept by 40 minutes, passing my whole "watch tv to wake up" routine, and headed straight for the shower. As I come back, my roommate Dan is still half asleep, possible getting ready to ditch Spanish, and I look outside. It looks wet. So I pull out my hairdryer and decide to actually use it. So as I'm sitting on my bed, drying my hair, trying to remember where my math notebook was and hoping Dan wasn't too mad for the loud noise, I look over at the clock; I had overstayed my welcome. I hurry up and head to class.

After another somewhat interesting talk about matrices, I head back out to go meet with a study group on an assignment due in an hour and a half. a light drizzle continues to fill the air so I grab one of the newspapers and put it over my head. Then it hits me:

I'm in college. I'm a college student. I am taking things as they are and not really planning ahead. I'm living in the moment. This is prety sweet, I think to myself. I get to go to college. I get to learn new, exciting things. I get to procrastinate and not care about it.

I know this sounds stupid, but it's true. So I had quite a revelation this morning. I'm not in high school. The rules are different, and a lot more lenient on my side. I can do all this awesome stuff, now. I don't have to listen to anybody. But then I got back into the mundane rush of things.

I went to the bookstore and read the postsecret book without buying it. I'm such a cheapskate. I really liked a lot of them. One of my favorites dealt with the blueberries. My personal favorite, though, took two pages.

Shoot. Diff EQ is due tomorrow and I haven't even started on it. It's gonna be a long night. The most actualized night ever.

Oh, and I didn't make Wheel of Fortune. Oh well. Now I can go to The Price is Right and play PLINKO!

resume the upright and locked position

so things have pretty much gone back to normal. We get the usual grades, we ditch the usual classes. My roommate dan works at the CostCo @ Grant, and my other two are still playing WOW as we speak. One's a lot more calm and collected than the other, or at least his guild is less erratic.

I've been spending more time trying to figure out my schedule for next fall registartion than I have doing my homework, and that's a bad thing. The main problems is that it looks like if I want to maintain a "normal" load, then I can only take 4 classes cuz 3 of them have a lab.
physics (thermo and optics)
materials science (engineering chemistry in a sense)
computer science (Java for dummies)
and some math class (the one without a lab)

Of course, me not being complacent with a "normal" schedule in terms of units, I've been trying to fit in a 5th class somewhere, and this is where the problems arise. Why, depending on which physics class I take (regular or honors) and whether math 322 can count as 422 (the catalog even says practically the same stuff for both of them, and only credit for one is allowed) then I have a lot of different schedules. phooey. mostly it boils down to "what do I want for class #5? Econ (3 of the possibilities) ? Another math (at least 2 more)? Another engieering class? Psychology (why not?)? Bah, well I have another week to figure out all that Mumbo Jumbo. Normally I'd do what my gut tells me to do, but all this week I've been fighting some weird stomach bug so it's not in a good mood.

Ah, chaos. All is well again.

spring break

going home for a week reminded me why I went to the dorms in the first place. it was ok, don't get me wrong. Pretty unstressful for the most part. the thing is just that I remembered how i feel so powerless at home. I can't go anywhere. I can't do anything but play video games and surf. Plus I have no space for myself- I feel almost claustrophobic there now. My bed is still uncomfy. I felt more refreshed after a 6 hour sleep at my dorm bed than a 10 hour sleep at home. I think it has something to do with the firmness. I just feel a lot more relaxed when I'm at the dorm, that's all.

But I basically had to stay at home for the last week. you see, my grandma fell down last wednesday and was stuck on the floor for 3 or 4 hours. Fortunately she was able to reach the telephone and call my mom, and also thank god she didn't break anything. The only thing she had was a hairline fracture in her left ring finger.

So I've been at home basically to make sure that when my grandma is up that nothing happens to her. By yesterday she was able to make herself food and go to the bathroom unattended, and looked a lot better from her facial features too. so I was relieved of my duty and now get to have, what I consider, my spring break. which will consist of playing video games and surfing.

WAAAHH

The guy from Press Your Luck died.

I'd like to buy a vowel

So I went to the Wheel of Fortune Auditions.

After 4 hours, I got called up. I didn't get to solve the puzzle, though I had it figured out (it was William Shatner)

Yay! I might still get a chance to be on TV! That would be so cool. To spin, to buy a vowel. It would be so rad! I'll hopefully find out in a couple of weeks if I qualified for the 2nd round of auditions.

I hope I hope I hope

Mitch ditch update

3/10 AME 230
Why?
Because it's f@%ing spring break!

1. why does my bathroom at home smell like strawberry jello?


2. stupid lady. Who taught you how to drive? Didn't they tell you pedestrians exist? (I almost got hit crossing Speeedway. think I hurt my ankle. Must have jumped like 3 feet.)


3. Why do people push the button to cross the street that forces the cars to stop only to cross before actually being told to do so, forcing the cars to stop to let NO ONE cross the street? you get on my nerves.

I am such a nerd

http://www.joystiq.com/2006/02/28/mario-racing-minus-the-karts/

And yes, I was cheering along. Quite riveting.

Mitch's Ditch Rule

I believe that people are entitled to one free class to ditch per school week (M-F). However, there are some clear exclusions:

1. It cannot be on a test day or when hw is due (unless you have someone to turn yours in for you)
2. You may not skip the same class more than once during a three week period. That would just be unruly.
3. Most any reason is good enough. I overslept is just as good as I didn't feel like going.

My most recent uses of the Mitch Ditch rule

3/2 MATH 215 (overslept)
2/23 Math 254 (studying)
2/14 ECE 207 (Chick Fil A)
2/9 AME 230 (didn't feel like going)








Also, It's good when 68% on a test counts as a probable B.

it's funny when people change, because all you ever think of is how they used to be and the times you had hanging out with them. And to hear that they're completely different people, well, it's hard to stomach. Maybe I was just the ignorant one. hell, I probably still am. But I guess that's just one of those things you have to get used to. Life is like water. It always has ripples, and even though it looks the same everything has moved around.

I'm just glad my classes are pretty easy for the most part this semester, because it's just kicking in that this is college, this is life, there is no more hall monitor that you can hellp guide you. I just don't know how well I can take it all in. People are responsible for their own actions, and you won't understand them always, but that's how it goes. Things change. I miss the way things used to be. We've lost contact, lost touch. What once was a bond is now a mere tattered string. But distance does that. time does that. reality does that.

It's just... not... cool, that's all.