I'm done with work for the semester! Yeah!

I am feeling the sensation of sudden deceleration as my school-related work suddenly approaches zero.

Remaining:
SCOPE - Expo presentation (next week)
Software Systems - Final (Friday)
OSS - Record video of software demo (Wednesday)
Japanese - DONE

So I'm totally free tomorrow!

Gave blood yesterday, had a cavity filled today. Wrapping up work along with the medical stuff.

Sketchy cab-driver guy apparently thinks Barack Obama is "communist", "anti-semetic", "arrogant", and "unelectable". Seems ludicrous to me, but I hope this doesn't represent the opinion of the "average American voter". Scott Adams seems to think it ( Read more... )

4 weeks remain. Brandeis is off next week for Passover, and Monday is off for Patriot's Day, so this week should be a bit easier ( Read more... )

The following is only relevant to the programmers on my friends list, probably...

So, did you know that Java has syntactic sugar for iterating over a collection? So you can write this:
for (SomeType item: stuff) {
// code here
}Instead of:
for (Iterator iter = stuff.iterator(); iterator.hasNext ( Read more... )

Vacation status: COMPLETE

Hanging out with friends was fun, despite some setbacks. Markos wanted to go to a late-night movie Friday night, but we were late and then Markos got his car stuck in the snow (yeah, it was snowing hard the last night of spring break >_<). Fortunately, some passing guy had tow cables in his SUV ( Read more... )

School-wise, things progress as usual. Work is ramping up a bit (starting on my final project for Software Systems, designing and programming a Linux shell), but I'm still keeping afloat, more or less ( Read more... )

Finally, I have time for a post!

Japanese is going well. I really do need to brush up on the fundamentals of vocab and grammar, so the class is moderately challenging (save for kanji). I'm getting quite a bit of practice in writing and much more conversation practice than I got last semester. The teacher kind of scares me though, she's intense ( Read more... )

So, evidently I decided that having no morning classes was just too pleasant, so I'm rectifying the situation by adding a Brandeis class that meets every morning.

I am no longer sick. The part of Mystery Hunt I was well for was quite fun. I crashed at Pika on Saturday night and returned to Olin Sunday evening. Monday was relaxing, and today was the start of my last semester. I'm thinking about adding a Japanese class to my schedule, even though that would mean getting out to Brandeis every morning ( ( Read more... )