February 27, 2002

UGH..... End of Reading Week.. or what was SUPPOSED to be Reading Week... heck, I BARELY got ANY work done!!! I didn't even hand in my CS 3TA3 assignment that was due on Monday... that's just great.... and I had my CS 4MN3 midterm that day too.... guess when did I actually start studying for it? MONDAY MORNING!! =P Gawd... I swear something is VERY wrong with me this term.... I can't believe how much I'm slacking compared to the good ol' days when I could actually look in the mirror and be proud of my work ethic... I feel like it's back to my high school habits again... WTF... Oh well, at least the midterm was alright.... we all got our butts expanded a couple inches, if you get my drift =P So it wasn't a major disaster... at least I had all my classmates to share the pain. Haha....

Next midterm tomorrow.. 3TA3.... the most DREADED class in all of McMaster's Comp Sci program... Hell... even Waterloo's comparable course seems easier!! I swear, we have a professor that seems to be hellbent with a vendetta against the students... The good news is that the midterm should not be too difficult.... the bad news is that the final exam will be. Does the words "open book" mean anything to you? For those of you who are in University, you'll understand.. for those that are not or in a lower education level.... don't think this is a good thing.. it ISN'T... "Open Book" means that the prof has the excuse to make the exam SOO difficult that everything you bring with you will be useless... and it's true too! Ask anyone who's been in this class and they will tell you right away to study like you've never studied before for this one! I'm already scared as it is.. I don't understand a damn thing in lecture and I'm completely lost!! This is another one of those "just-get-a-pass-and-forget-about-it" courses... that D- sure looks good enough for me.. anyway.. wow.. this was long! This page is going to fill up pretty quick at this rate!

February 21, 2002

Wow.... it's been more than a month since I last wrote... bah! But as if anyone reads this anyway.... Well, many things have happened since then. For one thing, I got my old job back! YES!!!! My summer employment is now guaranteed!!! Now if only I could say the same for Full Time... sigh.... Ah well!! That's just another great challenge for me to face and get slaughtered on in stylez =P Heh, j/k. I'm sure something will come up.. it always seems to... Secondly, I've dropped my Databases course and added one of my required courses in its place a long time ago... so I still have 2 courses.. but for a short time it was 3.... er... did I make any sense? Anyway, the databases course wasn't exactly interesting to me... too much theory. I'm more of a hands-on type of guy... (plus, I couldn't finish the first assignment that was worth 13%!! =P).. so I just dropped it... lucky I added the other course first, or OSAP will kill me even more! It's bad enough I'm blacklisted now... grumble.. thanks Dad =P Ah well, St. Valentine's Day passed... hope you all had a good one. Mine was alright... I'm single yes... but I still have someone in mind..... and I kinda have to say I kind of spent some of St. Valentine's day with her.. kind... of... er... yeah =P (My friends must be rolling their eyes by now. haha) Anyway, time for me to sign off and finish doing all my work!! Talk about READING WEEK!!! DACK!

January 8, 2002

School's on. Joy. Just what I have been waiting for sooo long. Well, but why should I be dreading this term when I only have TWO courses? That's right... only TWO, plus a project though, but that's not THAT much you may say... well, that might be true, but you guys don't know what kind of professor(s) I have to deal with this term. My automata and computability professor is notorious in our University Computer Science faculty. If you can survive him, you can survive ANYTHING the faculty will throw at you up to and including an oil tanker. I am not joking. I don't think he's a bad professor. After been through two of his lectures, it's not TOO bad, but just TRYING to understand what he's saying is already a great challenge. He doesn't have the best english skills, but his reputation for giving murderous exams is well deserved. I wish I took this course last year with my friends like I should have... but NOOO.... decided to chicken out and end up taking it with NO ONE I know. Smart eh? Well, now I will live with the consequence of my choice. Just fine..... oh well.

January 2, 2002

It's another brand new year! Happy New Year to you all! So, another year passes, and I still feel like nothing's new. =P Soon it will be back to McMaster again for another wonderful term... *groan*. Like everyone else, we all kinda wish we were just finished school... (or at least, finished PAYING for it! ARGH!) but at the same time, things will never be the same once we graduate.... all the times we get to hang out with friends in between lectures, the constaint searching/begging/bargaining for assignments and other helpful things.. ahhhh... yeah, you University students may not believe it now, but once we're gone, you'll kill to go back again... I always laughed when my co-workers told me that during my summer job, but now I can almost completely understand it...... the money handling, the having-to-take-care-of-one's self, etc... all that is pretty scary if you ask me. Oh well, just another challenge for a grunt like myself. Well, bring it on! Cuz here comes the airborne!