The Rollercoaster
I was kind of thinking about it tonight, and it's strange how we (we as all the people in general i know who blog) always seem to rate things in extreme goods, or extreme bads. There is no middle ground. People write when life is going up or when life is absolutely suck. There's little or no inbetween. Why is this?
*Takes a sip of Code Red*
I was thinking about this year on a general level has been much better than last year. In fact that seemed to be the goal of this year. To improve upon our Freshman year. Granted while we saw a lot of fun and crazy stuff, Freshman year was still (at least for me) learning the ropes of anything and everything. This year we'd know the general running of college dorm life, and take advantage of this to have true hijinks. Now granted the first term was pretty bad about people playing WoW, but i see it getting much better. Data structures will do that to you.
*takes another sip of Code Red*
Speaking of Data Structures... that's another example of how things are going good and bad at the same time. The bad? There's work. There's a lot of work, and to be honest i'm hardly caught up on it all. But on the complete other hand, i have learned a shitload. And i don't use the term to try and sound funny. It's amazing the sheer amount of concepts we've covered thus far and i still have left to cover before the term's over. While i don't know practical applications for ALL of them per se, i still have quite the amazing amount of ideas and concepts i can now work with in programs. I just find it really cool how here i am at college, and i truly am learning things. I've finally moved on past the stuff i learned in high school. Has me pretty psyched for future classes and my future programming career, really.
*finishes the code red bottle, sighs sadly at it, and puts it down*
I think though, for the most part, having put down WoW has really got me back on the track of just doing different things in general. The biggest part of this being (aside from working on data structs...) my art. When i find the time it's really nice to get a pic sketched out and whatnot. At this point the hardest part simply becomes getting the inspiration, ie deciding what to try drawing. I also strive a lot to get original pictures done, but this becomes increasingly difficult it seems with different poses as i don't have that many i'm comfortable and able to do. However with my discovery of Mac Hall i've sorta gotten a new motivation to draw. I went to the gallery of Ian's works (Ian being the artist for Mac Hall) and just saw some downright cool pictures that inspired me a bit. The comic's also been really fun to read, sort of relating to the dorm hijinks i think so fondly of. Last, i find myself able to relate to Ian a lot, except that he has the attention span requried for awesome projects, whereas i do not. =P
I think i may have had more to rant or just babble on about, but let's be honest. none of it is coming to mind anymore. This could be due to short attention span, or it could be due to the time of 1:10am. No one can tell for sure, really. In any case, i think this has been an eventful entry. Babbled on about lots of stuff, and just thought on a lot in general. Also gave me an excuse to use my new TS2 Gretel icon. :3 Hooray for robots in Hoodies!
With all that said, i leave you guys an excerpt from our conversations tonight:
Carlo : "Or you could use a double star pointer and..."
Ed : "NO. NO. NOTHING NEEDS A DOUBLE STAR POINTER. NOTHING."
Carlo *looks at Scott* ".... we'll talk about it later."
Laterz all.
-Ed Kun Out
*Takes a sip of Code Red*
I was thinking about this year on a general level has been much better than last year. In fact that seemed to be the goal of this year. To improve upon our Freshman year. Granted while we saw a lot of fun and crazy stuff, Freshman year was still (at least for me) learning the ropes of anything and everything. This year we'd know the general running of college dorm life, and take advantage of this to have true hijinks. Now granted the first term was pretty bad about people playing WoW, but i see it getting much better. Data structures will do that to you.
*takes another sip of Code Red*
Speaking of Data Structures... that's another example of how things are going good and bad at the same time. The bad? There's work. There's a lot of work, and to be honest i'm hardly caught up on it all. But on the complete other hand, i have learned a shitload. And i don't use the term to try and sound funny. It's amazing the sheer amount of concepts we've covered thus far and i still have left to cover before the term's over. While i don't know practical applications for ALL of them per se, i still have quite the amazing amount of ideas and concepts i can now work with in programs. I just find it really cool how here i am at college, and i truly am learning things. I've finally moved on past the stuff i learned in high school. Has me pretty psyched for future classes and my future programming career, really.
*finishes the code red bottle, sighs sadly at it, and puts it down*
I think though, for the most part, having put down WoW has really got me back on the track of just doing different things in general. The biggest part of this being (aside from working on data structs...) my art. When i find the time it's really nice to get a pic sketched out and whatnot. At this point the hardest part simply becomes getting the inspiration, ie deciding what to try drawing. I also strive a lot to get original pictures done, but this becomes increasingly difficult it seems with different poses as i don't have that many i'm comfortable and able to do. However with my discovery of Mac Hall i've sorta gotten a new motivation to draw. I went to the gallery of Ian's works (Ian being the artist for Mac Hall) and just saw some downright cool pictures that inspired me a bit. The comic's also been really fun to read, sort of relating to the dorm hijinks i think so fondly of. Last, i find myself able to relate to Ian a lot, except that he has the attention span requried for awesome projects, whereas i do not. =P
I think i may have had more to rant or just babble on about, but let's be honest. none of it is coming to mind anymore. This could be due to short attention span, or it could be due to the time of 1:10am. No one can tell for sure, really. In any case, i think this has been an eventful entry. Babbled on about lots of stuff, and just thought on a lot in general. Also gave me an excuse to use my new TS2 Gretel icon. :3 Hooray for robots in Hoodies!
With all that said, i leave you guys an excerpt from our conversations tonight:
Carlo : "Or you could use a double star pointer and..."
Ed : "NO. NO. NOTHING NEEDS A DOUBLE STAR POINTER. NOTHING."
Carlo *looks at Scott* ".... we'll talk about it later."
Laterz all.
-Ed Kun Out