Sleep inducing professors... why can't they talk when I need sleep?
Ya know, it's funny. I never expected myself to post in this blasted thing ever again. But somehow, I got this random urge this evening.
I've had alot on my mind, lately. Life, love, the world, and of course, school. The first three are not what I want to talk about. Usually, discussing such things for me is better done in conversation rather than monolouge. No, I wish to talk a bit of school here, since this year is looking to be a bit of a mixed bag.
On one hand, my Monday/Wednesday/Fridays are wonderful. The only classes those days are Japanese, C++, and I hope to add Kanji to Wednesday. JApanese and C++ are both excellent classes taught by difficult but excellent professors. These are classes I love taking. Japanese has become an obsession of mine, even without anime. The very culture of JApan fascinates me. I can even understand some japanese music now. As for C++... my professor is widely considered to be the hardest C++ professor in the department, but also the best by far. And I can already tell. We are going to have 8 programs over the semester all leading up to robotic vision. This is GREAT stuff these days.
On the other hand... Tuesdays and Thursdays, I have two classes, one right after the other, both 75 minutes long. One is CS301, Foundations of Computer Science, a theory course, and the other is CS370, System Architecture and Operating Systems. Neither course is one I was really looking forward to. Both courses have the same professor, one who not only has the uncanny ability to make me drowsy, but also apparently expects you to learn obscure things he never mentions at all. It doesn't help that most of what he says goes in one ear and out the other. He is easily the most boring professor I have had in college.
This boringness makes me wonder how I'm going to handle these courses. If I can't be enthusiastic about a subject, how can I learn it? All my CS classes before 301 and 370 I have enjoyed, even despite hard to understand professors, I've enjoyed, and I've received an A in each of them, mostly because I wanted to learn them. But 301 and 370... a boring class with subjects that don't interest me? I fear I may fail. Indeed, this fear has driven me to be worried that I'm simply not doing enough for the classes, but I like my freedom and the two classes I DO like have considerably more homework. It's all a conundrum.
Compounding my worries is my new job as Anime Club President. Although it's a fun job and my underling officers are all wonderful people, I always worry that I'm not doing enough for that, either. I mean, I'm the PRESIDENT. For having such a shiny name, I think more people would be getting on my ass and telling me to do more.
The end result is me feeling bored and withdrawn most of the time. Even playing my beloved video games, I feel like there's something more I should be doing.
In fact, the only times I really don't feel this way are when I'm hanging out with my friends up here (my roommate introduced me to Firefly, a wonderful show that proves that Americans can still produce a decent TV series amidst all the reality crap) or pondering my own video game ideas to myself. I've developed quite a few as of late, one ideal for the Nintendo DS (my new technological obsession) and one where I'll have to see where it may go (picking up random objects a la katamari damacy, but with a beat-em-up style of play closer to final fight and the like, all 3D,) as well as systems for RPGs on Sluggy (I want to revive my first original RPG as a tactical game.) Game design seems to truly be what makes me happy, in fact.
And thus, I realize that I have to gut my way through these two 300 level courses with the most boring professor alive; it's all for what makes me happy. Selfish, perhaps, but true.
Now, if only the professor talking would be the sound I heard in the morning at 6:30 instead of construction, then I'd be able to get some freaking sleep.
I've had alot on my mind, lately. Life, love, the world, and of course, school. The first three are not what I want to talk about. Usually, discussing such things for me is better done in conversation rather than monolouge. No, I wish to talk a bit of school here, since this year is looking to be a bit of a mixed bag.
On one hand, my Monday/Wednesday/Fridays are wonderful. The only classes those days are Japanese, C++, and I hope to add Kanji to Wednesday. JApanese and C++ are both excellent classes taught by difficult but excellent professors. These are classes I love taking. Japanese has become an obsession of mine, even without anime. The very culture of JApan fascinates me. I can even understand some japanese music now. As for C++... my professor is widely considered to be the hardest C++ professor in the department, but also the best by far. And I can already tell. We are going to have 8 programs over the semester all leading up to robotic vision. This is GREAT stuff these days.
On the other hand... Tuesdays and Thursdays, I have two classes, one right after the other, both 75 minutes long. One is CS301, Foundations of Computer Science, a theory course, and the other is CS370, System Architecture and Operating Systems. Neither course is one I was really looking forward to. Both courses have the same professor, one who not only has the uncanny ability to make me drowsy, but also apparently expects you to learn obscure things he never mentions at all. It doesn't help that most of what he says goes in one ear and out the other. He is easily the most boring professor I have had in college.
This boringness makes me wonder how I'm going to handle these courses. If I can't be enthusiastic about a subject, how can I learn it? All my CS classes before 301 and 370 I have enjoyed, even despite hard to understand professors, I've enjoyed, and I've received an A in each of them, mostly because I wanted to learn them. But 301 and 370... a boring class with subjects that don't interest me? I fear I may fail. Indeed, this fear has driven me to be worried that I'm simply not doing enough for the classes, but I like my freedom and the two classes I DO like have considerably more homework. It's all a conundrum.
Compounding my worries is my new job as Anime Club President. Although it's a fun job and my underling officers are all wonderful people, I always worry that I'm not doing enough for that, either. I mean, I'm the PRESIDENT. For having such a shiny name, I think more people would be getting on my ass and telling me to do more.
The end result is me feeling bored and withdrawn most of the time. Even playing my beloved video games, I feel like there's something more I should be doing.
In fact, the only times I really don't feel this way are when I'm hanging out with my friends up here (my roommate introduced me to Firefly, a wonderful show that proves that Americans can still produce a decent TV series amidst all the reality crap) or pondering my own video game ideas to myself. I've developed quite a few as of late, one ideal for the Nintendo DS (my new technological obsession) and one where I'll have to see where it may go (picking up random objects a la katamari damacy, but with a beat-em-up style of play closer to final fight and the like, all 3D,) as well as systems for RPGs on Sluggy (I want to revive my first original RPG as a tactical game.) Game design seems to truly be what makes me happy, in fact.
And thus, I realize that I have to gut my way through these two 300 level courses with the most boring professor alive; it's all for what makes me happy. Selfish, perhaps, but true.
Now, if only the professor talking would be the sound I heard in the morning at 6:30 instead of construction, then I'd be able to get some freaking sleep.