Did a lot today, but it was fun. To start out I *almost* missed physics this morning. The class starts at 9 am so I set my alarm for 8 am so I can have time to wake up, take a shower, yada yada yada. This usually works out pretty well except this morning I turned off the alarm and decided to lay back down for another minute. When I turned back over to see what time it was it was 8:55. I had fallen back asleep. So I throw some clothes on and rush over there to arrive just as he starts. Now looking back on it I probably should have just stayed in bed. This had to be his most boring lecture ever. I mean he talked for 50 minutes about the second law of thermodynamics and the properties of heat flow in ideal gases. It was sooo boring.

Math was next and was a little better. We're doing Taylor and Maclaurin series for anyone who cares or knows what they are. But anyway, the calc has gotten to a level where the class splits very cleanly into three groups: the people that understand what is going on and follow the lectures, the people that fade in and out of comprehension writing down notes so that they can figure out what they mean later, and then there's the group of people that haven't the slightest clue what is going on. Its kind of interesting watching everyone while class is going on because you can tell what group people fall in. Oh, and we all got cookies in calc today as well! This is kind of a long story, but what are blogs for? Just skip to the end of this paragraph if you want. Anyway there's this girl named Stacey in our class who fits the stereotype of a blonde to the letter. Just a little background, last semester when we were all in freshman engineering calculus we were in this big room the night of the first test. She was sitting beside me and introducing herself to everyone around her. "Hi, what's your name? What dorm are you living in? What's your major?" were the three standard questions. Well after talking to the 10 or so odd people around her, she proclaims to the class that "I can't believe it, everyone sitting next to me is here for engineering, what are the odds of that?!" Duh ... This is a freshman engineering calculus class. Odds are most everyone in the room is an engineer. Ok, back to the story. Well she I guess usually gets the average on tests and stuff which amount to a 70-75, somewhere in there. And one day in office hours with the professor, she apparently said that if she got an 80 or higher on the next test she'd make the whole class cookies. The professor overheard this comment. Then after the next test Ms. Beck (the prof) looked and found Stacey had scored an 80. She then proceeded to tell the whole class the next day about the wager, of making cookies, and about how she had scored the required 80. She then told the class that having overheard the wager, she was going to make sure Stacey held to it, by telling the class that if Stacey didn't bring the entire class cookies by the next class meeting she would drop a letter grade! Needless to say, the next class period cookies appeared. So I got some peanut butter cookies. Mmm.

Then after calc, went to computer science for the last time. Next time I go will be for the final in a few weeks. I liked that class. Found a guy in there who likes to do game programming too! Got his email address and stuff so we can work on some stuff together over the summer, making games and such. So that's kind of cool. He's also from Tripoli, I think he said. It sounded like that anyway, so email would be the only way to talk over the summer, heh. Imagine those long distance bills. Hey, just realised I have a friends from Tripoli, Togo, and Romania. Ooo, multi-cultural, lol.

Afterwards, I played Halo for a little while (Friday tradition). Then went to see Lord of Rings: Return of the King. They were playing it here at the university theater, so I decided to check it out. Very good movie, better the second time. After that I went with some guys to this restaurant in Charlottesville. It was some kind of steakhouse/buffet place that was really good. Ate too much, but oh well I need a break from dining hall food every once in a while. We rode in my friend's new truck he got. Its a pretty nice truck, a 1999 Ford f-250 Superduty. Supercab Short Bed 4x4, Diesel. I have absolutely no idea what that means, heh, but that's what it is for those that do. The tires are up to my waist and he's got this wicked paint job on it. Gray down the sides with a sliver trim and red flames on the front. It is a beast. Especially because it has a diesel engine. I don't know how it differs from a regular gas engine, but I do know that it makes a *lot* of noise. Sounds like a city bus when he revs the engine. Oh, it was funny. We were coming up to a red light and there was a Jaguar in the lane besides us stopped at the light. We got to the light just as it turned green, so he could have just kept going. But ... he decided to slow down to a stop next to the Jag just as it was starting to move from the red light. And then procede to rev the engine to full and just leave the guy behind in his diesel fury. We were like "Whoa! I can't believe you just did that!"

And on a completely different note, I looked but didn't see Elijah today. Word on the street was he was here at UVA today to tour the place. I saw a few tour groups walking around, but I didn't see he him.

Then I get back and decide to write this blog. Which now that I look at is fairly long. I guess sometimes I just like to type. Well, I'll talk at you later.

ewww
taylor/maclaurin series. yuck. i still have no idea what to do with them, other than know that you can prove sin and cosine with them or somethin.
» ikimashokie on 2004-04-24 03:01:48

i mean,
we havent even used them. theyre there, and we had write them into a fxn for a program once, which was bull.
» ikimashokie on 2004-04-24 12:14:35

I'm one
of those people that have no idea wtf is going on, lol. Momentum and Collisions looks like a promising chapter. I might actually understand it. *giggle @ the blonde*
» EngelGenannt on 2004-04-24 01:02:00

lucky.
I want to see Return of the King. I think the second LOTR kind of sucked. =/
» hilikus on 2004-04-24 01:08:16

momentum and that
wasnt all that bad. I JUST WANT MY TEST 2 GRADE! GAAAAH! test three wasnt all that bad either, but given i studied for a week... lol
» ikimashokie on 2004-04-24 09:38:02

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