wow
so it would seem as if i'm finally getting a good semester here as far as classes/academics go.
so far the first professor i met for Data Structures & Algorithms is a retired Lockheed Martin engineer, AND as a bonus, he uses linux (ubuntu). He asked everybody who used linux to raise their hand (and about four of us including me in a rather large class raised our hands) and then he said, for the rest of you, i highly suggest you dump windows and switch to linux, it's stupid not to. That gave him extra points in my book.
the second professor was for Computer Organization & Microprocessors and he runs linux (also ubuntu) as well! And whats cooler is that he runs it on a tablet PC. Even better is that he is apparently writting a textbook for that classroom, but its a work in progress, therefore we haven't got to buy a book, he is just letting us have copies of it online chapter by chapter as he writes them.
the third and final professor that i met today was in Electrical Circuits and he does not use linux, but he does use a tablet PC which is helpful and nice for presenting his lecture. But what he lacks in operating system he makes up for in everything else. This particular class's lecture meets monday, wednesday, and friday, from 4:40-5:40pm, which sux because thats a horrible time to have your last class on a friday. Well one of the first things he says to us is that he doesn't want to come in that late on friday's any more than we do... and therefore he wouldn't ever be having a friday lecture! So i just opened my schedule and put a huge X thru that class and now on Fridays my last class ends at 11:50am! Sweet! He said he will instead be posting a video lecture online that we may watch whenever we please before the next Monday's lecture, i can definitely deal with that, thats awesome. If that wasn't awesome enough.... there is MORE. He then randomly mentions that one thing we should know about him is that he's a guitar player, and that 50% of his brain is dedicated to thinking about guitars. I was only half paying attention but when i suddenly started hearing the magic word "guitar" being thrown around i payed attention quick! I was like "holy shit this guy rocks!" On his webpage he has links to cool electrical circuit stuff related to guitar impedance pedals and shit like that, AND he said that during the course he was going to link many electrical circuit concepts to electric guitars and pedals and stuff, and i was thinking "are you kiddding... i couldn't ask for a more personalized course, he's going to take something i wouldn't normally have fun learning about and put it in the context of guitars! How sweet is that, if only every course catered to my interests like that, haha.
So i only have one more class that i haven't yet gone to, thats tomorrow, and its also my only class tomorrow since my lab is not meeting this week. That class is Probabilistic Systems I, and it sounds boring but we'll see how the professor is. Overall, the three classes i've gone to so far have decent professors, and i don't even have to buy ANY textbooks so far, plus they just seem like interesting classes. So far i'm pretty psyched about this semester, next thing you know i'll meet a whole group of cool people and some awesome girls, and i'll join a band and win the lotto and all kinds of other lucky stuff (wishful thinking)
til next time *woosh*
so far the first professor i met for Data Structures & Algorithms is a retired Lockheed Martin engineer, AND as a bonus, he uses linux (ubuntu). He asked everybody who used linux to raise their hand (and about four of us including me in a rather large class raised our hands) and then he said, for the rest of you, i highly suggest you dump windows and switch to linux, it's stupid not to. That gave him extra points in my book.
the second professor was for Computer Organization & Microprocessors and he runs linux (also ubuntu) as well! And whats cooler is that he runs it on a tablet PC. Even better is that he is apparently writting a textbook for that classroom, but its a work in progress, therefore we haven't got to buy a book, he is just letting us have copies of it online chapter by chapter as he writes them.
the third and final professor that i met today was in Electrical Circuits and he does not use linux, but he does use a tablet PC which is helpful and nice for presenting his lecture. But what he lacks in operating system he makes up for in everything else. This particular class's lecture meets monday, wednesday, and friday, from 4:40-5:40pm, which sux because thats a horrible time to have your last class on a friday. Well one of the first things he says to us is that he doesn't want to come in that late on friday's any more than we do... and therefore he wouldn't ever be having a friday lecture! So i just opened my schedule and put a huge X thru that class and now on Fridays my last class ends at 11:50am! Sweet! He said he will instead be posting a video lecture online that we may watch whenever we please before the next Monday's lecture, i can definitely deal with that, thats awesome. If that wasn't awesome enough.... there is MORE. He then randomly mentions that one thing we should know about him is that he's a guitar player, and that 50% of his brain is dedicated to thinking about guitars. I was only half paying attention but when i suddenly started hearing the magic word "guitar" being thrown around i payed attention quick! I was like "holy shit this guy rocks!" On his webpage he has links to cool electrical circuit stuff related to guitar impedance pedals and shit like that, AND he said that during the course he was going to link many electrical circuit concepts to electric guitars and pedals and stuff, and i was thinking "are you kiddding... i couldn't ask for a more personalized course, he's going to take something i wouldn't normally have fun learning about and put it in the context of guitars! How sweet is that, if only every course catered to my interests like that, haha.
So i only have one more class that i haven't yet gone to, thats tomorrow, and its also my only class tomorrow since my lab is not meeting this week. That class is Probabilistic Systems I, and it sounds boring but we'll see how the professor is. Overall, the three classes i've gone to so far have decent professors, and i don't even have to buy ANY textbooks so far, plus they just seem like interesting classes. So far i'm pretty psyched about this semester, next thing you know i'll meet a whole group of cool people and some awesome girls, and i'll join a band and win the lotto and all kinds of other lucky stuff (wishful thinking)
til next time *woosh*