school school school SCHOOL SCHOOL!!!!!
I couldn't be more excited about SCHOOL! I can't stop thinking about it! My summer session starts July 17 and I cannot wait! My excitement warrants the use of this smiley: >.<
Thanks for the congrats, everybody.
I went to an advisor Friday so I could register for classes (advising is mandatory before you can register, and all the upper-level courses each require permission from the department). I'm taking Computer Systems Architecture over the summer (a class I tried before and had to drop; hopefully I'll do better this time around), and Database Design in the fall.
While obsessively looking around my school's website and the course listings, I saw another course I really really want to take in the fall: Elementary Theory of Computation. Stuff like regular expressions and grammars, for those of you who know what I'm talking about!
Only a few people have signed up for this course so far, when most of the fall classes are full, so hopefully it won't get cancelled. I will be a sad student if it does.
I assume they wouldn't cancel the course until the beginning of classes, and there is a LONG time between now and then (fall semester begins August 30! 
) so hopefully people will switch around their schedules and sign up for this class. Maybe some people who waited too long to register will end up signing up, since it will probably be one of the few courses still open in a few months.
The professor for that course is kind of eccentric, and not the greatest teacher, so maybe people are avoiding it because of that.
I've had him before, though, and passed his class, so... so there! 
As for actually getting to school, I realize now that I'd better take busses the whole way, and not the subway. A round trip to school taking the subway on one day costs almost as much as a week riding the bus would cost.
It is no faster or slower than riding the subway; both methods of transportation take two hours each way. Taking the subway so expensive because the red line is in sort of a U-shape that dips down into the city and back up again, rather than going straight across to where I need to be (they've proposed a new purple line to go straight across, but it won't be done for years).
I've entered my classes into my Palm computer calendar. The summer course is every day of the week, from 11am to 12:20pm. The fall course is Tuesdays and Thursdays, also 11 to 12:20. I've set a three hour alarm for them; it should give me adequate notice before I have to leave for the bus stop. I'm giving myself a half hour of extra time in case there are any bus delays. The alarm goes off at 8, the bus leaves at 8:15, I get to campus at 10:30 (according to the transit authority's trip planner).
What will I do on these lonnnng journeys? Sudoku, of course! I don't quite understand how this simple puzzle became such a worldwide craze... but that's for another entry.
I also like another Japanese puzzle called nurikabe. Clearly, it isn't nearly as popular as sudoku (by a longshot), because I can't find too many books of them. I may have to resort to buying Japanese books.
Anyway, to sum up: SCHOOL!!! YAY!!!
I couldn't be more excited about SCHOOL! I can't stop thinking about it! My summer session starts July 17 and I cannot wait! My excitement warrants the use of this smiley: >.<
Thanks for the congrats, everybody.
I went to an advisor Friday so I could register for classes (advising is mandatory before you can register, and all the upper-level courses each require permission from the department). I'm taking Computer Systems Architecture over the summer (a class I tried before and had to drop; hopefully I'll do better this time around), and Database Design in the fall.
While obsessively looking around my school's website and the course listings, I saw another course I really really want to take in the fall: Elementary Theory of Computation. Stuff like regular expressions and grammars, for those of you who know what I'm talking about!
Only a few people have signed up for this course so far, when most of the fall classes are full, so hopefully it won't get cancelled. I will be a sad student if it does.
I assume they wouldn't cancel the course until the beginning of classes, and there is a LONG time between now and then (fall semester begins August 30! ) so hopefully people will switch around their schedules and sign up for this class. Maybe some people who waited too long to register will end up signing up, since it will probably be one of the few courses still open in a few months.
The professor for that course is kind of eccentric, and not the greatest teacher, so maybe people are avoiding it because of that.
I've had him before, though, and passed his class, so... so there!
As for actually getting to school, I realize now that I'd better take busses the whole way, and not the subway. A round trip to school taking the subway on one day costs almost as much as a week riding the bus would cost.
It is no faster or slower than riding the subway; both methods of transportation take two hours each way. Taking the subway so expensive because the red line is in sort of a U-shape that dips down into the city and back up again, rather than going straight across to where I need to be (they've proposed a new purple line to go straight across, but it won't be done for years).
I've entered my classes into my Palm computer calendar.
The summer course is every day of the week, from 11am to 12:20pm. The fall course is Tuesdays and Thursdays, also 11 to 12:20. I've set a three hour alarm for them; it should give me adequate notice before I have to leave for the bus stop. I'm giving myself a half hour of extra time in case there are any bus delays. The alarm goes off at 8, the bus leaves at 8:15, I get to campus at 10:30 (according to the transit authority's trip planner).
What will I do on these lonnnng journeys? Sudoku, of course!
I don't quite understand how this simple puzzle became such a worldwide craze... but that's for another entry.
I also like another Japanese puzzle called nurikabe. Clearly, it isn't nearly as popular as sudoku (by a longshot), because I can't find too many books of them. I may have to resort to buying Japanese books.
Anyway, to sum up: SCHOOL!!! YAY!!!
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I was hoping to do some school stuff this year, too, but so far the course I wanted for the spring was cancelled, and the summer listings don't look terribly appealing. Bleh.
Oh, and regular expressions are the shit. Little whacky to get your head around it, but makes tools that incorporate them a lot more useful.
Yay for school!