Final #2 done

I will say that I have never done worse on an exam in my life.
8 questions on the final. I couldn’t answer 3 of them (basically ended up writing down the problem statement and never quite doing any more), and I BSed most of 4 of the remaining 5 (made equalities such as setting a summation equal to an integral with no explanation or made assumptions that were actually false under most circumstances). I’ll be incredibly lucky to get a 50% on this exam.
It’s 30% of my final grade, so I hopefully won’t fail the class… I just won’t do nearly as well as I had hoped (B-range).

Two finals down… two exams that I did horribly horrible on.
Why am I so stupid? It’s not that I don’t study and that I don’t understand the concepts, necessarily… I just completely blanked on most of the problems.

I feel like shit now. I think I’m going to go back to sleep and then study for my finals tomorrow so I don’t bomb them as well.

Final #1 done

Recently, a giant rasterbated poster of Aument appeared hanging from the 6th floor in the Wean lobby…

and one of Santa Klaus appeared hanging in the entranceway to Wean Hall

I know absolutely nothing about the mysterious appearances of these posters. Nothing at all.

Um… so last night was the graphics final, and it went rather terribly. Let’s not talk about that. At least it’s over.

Last night was also the semesterly Almost Midnight Breakfast. There was much yummy food. I also played pinball and ITG with chrisamaphone, klipper, and alex. Was good.

Three more finals this week, and a crit in about 2 hours. I really should start studying for my other finals so they don’t go as poorly as graphics.
Blar.

Whee

Ben took me and Ev out today for the most awesome sushi lunch/dinner ever. There was raw live scallop, whitefin tuna sashimi, king salmon sushi, and eel sushi. Ben is the most awesomest awesome ever.
Then we went back to his place and watched the most horrible movie ever: Undead. It was labelled as a “no-budget” film and showed it in its extremely bad acting and plot. However, it still managed to be one of the best movie experiences I’ve had in a while, probably because it was so cheesy. Yay for heads being punched off and blood splurting everywhere! Yay for little girls punching holes through peoples’ heads to grab their brains! Yay for completely nonsensical and illogical actions by all the cast members! Yay for a guy popping guns out of the back of his shirt when, moments before, he had been completely naked (kinda makes you wonder where he was hiding the guns…)!

Things to do tomorrow:
Study for graphics final, choose and print images for the color photo final, buy Christmas presents.
Perhaps this means I should go to bed early tonight so I can wake up early and get stuff done.

Cluster card game is playable. I will eventually have enough cards such that there are no duplicates in the deck. However, it’s currently playable if you print 6 copies of each card. Try it out and send me feedback!

I keep having the weirdest dreams, and wake up meaning to document them… and then I fall back asleep and, by the time I wake up again, I’ve forgotten them. One the other day involved farming Wean for Crimbo items (a la Kingdom of Loathing)… Whee.

My graphics program is done, and worked relatively well. You can choose how many BOIDs you want in the scene. Here’s a scene with 1000.

Life is full of busy right now. Blar. Looking forward to break… just gotta get through the next 5 days.

Fishing for cpride and Evan? (With a “net”)

Blar

Why am I so unmotivated?
I can’t seem to get any work done. Need to start my graphics lab. Need to work on algo homework. Not really doing either.
Blarrrr.
One more week… hopefully I can find the motivation to not screw up the last stretch.

Tomorrow is December. It needs to snow.
Stupid global warming.

Various life musings

I keep having really weird, really freaky dreams. The moment I wake up, I forget almost all of it, but I’m left with this sense of intense fear and anxiety and lay there for a few moments too scared to move. Not quite sure what that means.

My final projects for both photo classes are coming along. For alternate, I plan to print various photos of Ev, with Van Dyke, onto a roll of paper towels. It turned out rather well when I printed Ben to test (although I didn’t fix it for fear of absorbing all the fixer and wasting it), so we’ll see how it goes. For color, I’m doing a more documentary-style portraiture shoot of CS life… which is to say, I’m shooting like I always do, except with my film camera instead of my digital. Dylan seems to be pleased with the results thus far… kinda ironic that I’m putting less effort into this (just shooting as I always do instead of racking my brain trying to think of things to shoot or trying to organize shoots) but it’s working out better. I want to assemble a book for the final, but I’m not sure if I’ll have enough images to do so, and if I do, I’m not sure I’ll have enough time to do so.

We’ve recieved the final assignments in all classes, so it’s all downhill from here. I’m a little worried about the graphics lab and final algo homework, but I’m sure I’ll eventually get it done. These next two weeks are going to be intense… followed by an intense week of finals (4 finals in 3 days… ew), and then it’s off to home.

Normally I’m kinda relieved to be heading home, even though I prefer it here in Pittsburgh. This year, however, that “Eh, whatever, I’ll go home” is turning into an intense feeling of longing. I don’t want to leave, despite really wanting to see my parents.
Relatedly, things in relationship land are amazing and I still feel like the luckiest guy alive.

Most of you already know I’m planning on graduating in December 2007. However, I’m contemplating becoming part time for my Fall 2007 semester. After next semester, assuming I pass all my classes, I will have exactly one requirement left to graduate, and it’ll be a CS elective. I’m planning on taking Computational Photography and Operating Systems… but there’s not really much else I want to take. That comes out to 24 units, which is less than the 36 required to be full-time. It’d be cheaper to pay for the units, especially given that I wasn’t planning on living in campus housing anyway. It’d absolve me (read: my parents) from various CMU fees too…
I dunno. Mark says it’s a good idea if I don’t really have anything else I want to take. I’m not on any scholarships that require me to be fulltime. I suppose I should discuss this with my parents.

I’m horribly behind on internship searching. I have no offers and no prospects, and it’s almost December. Blah. I guess that’s what Christmas break is for.

No pictar because I’ve been shooting all film and don’t have any of it scanned yet.