~8 Sanity in Review
It’s been a crazy week and a half. The worst all semester, I seriously started considering why I was even in college. I’m feeling much better now that I have these things mostly resolved and my head isn’t going to implode under the pressure.
~Project~
I had a mind-fuck this week (actually I’ve had several, but this was the first one). My programming class had a group project where we had to program a Wack-A-Mole game. There’s a long story I could draw out, but the summary is that my group kicked me out of the group because they assumed I dropped the class despite my emails to them; the class also kept switching groups around and pairing people together from entirely different classes. I thought I was going to have to try to do the entire thing on my own this weekend, but I have a group again and the project is moving along nicely now.
~Papers & Tests~
As ranted before I also had a paper and a horrible Calculus test that beat me down hard core. They're over so while I wanted to mention them, it’s pointless to dwell on them. Most likely I’ll have to retake Calculus II this summer, but I found more resources online and now I'm feeling good. Depending how things go I may take Calculus III in the fall (something I initially thought wasn’t possible, I assumed I’d need to devote a summer to it).
~Advisor~
I tried to sign up for classes, but found blocks on my account. The reason is that I’m still not an ‘upper level’ student. I had to go talk to an Engineering advisor instead of just Computer Science. The guy scared the hell out of me, trying to say that I was way off and wasting time… He was saying I needed to take 2 chemistry classes and that I didn’t need Calculus III… then he told me how lost I was, because I had no idea what he was talking about. I don’t think he was able to use his computer properly and had compiled all of my past majors into what I was supposed to be taking… into one ultimate supreme super major. I felt a lot better when I checked my degree plan. After this semester I’ll be 1 class from being upper level, I’m behind but I’m not that far behind. Needless to say that I missed my chance to preregister because he was a moron. I need to email him with my classes this week (at least for summer and my last lower level class).
~Apartment~
Gateway turned out to be a pain. But I’m moving, and that’s primarily what I want. Increasingly, I’ve feel a lot stronger in my theory that people (or I guess a least me) take on a personality reflecting how they react to their living environment. When I moved to live alone, I seriously thought I’d be so much more productive. I thought of all the things I could do with all my free time, space, privacy, and sleep. Of course things didn’t turn out like I imagined. I basically stagnated for a solid year and didn’t accomplish anything, school or otherwise. I was more productive (although a little crazed) living with other people, I'm glad I recognized that earlier this year when I was given the opportunity to move and have myself set up for a new year in an environment very different than my current one, and one that better reflects previous living spaces where I passed the classes that mattered.
That’s all I got, I’ll try to get a post out that isn’t depressing soon, I promise.
~Project~
I had a mind-fuck this week (actually I’ve had several, but this was the first one). My programming class had a group project where we had to program a Wack-A-Mole game. There’s a long story I could draw out, but the summary is that my group kicked me out of the group because they assumed I dropped the class despite my emails to them; the class also kept switching groups around and pairing people together from entirely different classes. I thought I was going to have to try to do the entire thing on my own this weekend, but I have a group again and the project is moving along nicely now.
~Papers & Tests~
As ranted before I also had a paper and a horrible Calculus test that beat me down hard core. They're over so while I wanted to mention them, it’s pointless to dwell on them. Most likely I’ll have to retake Calculus II this summer, but I found more resources online and now I'm feeling good. Depending how things go I may take Calculus III in the fall (something I initially thought wasn’t possible, I assumed I’d need to devote a summer to it).
~Advisor~
I tried to sign up for classes, but found blocks on my account. The reason is that I’m still not an ‘upper level’ student. I had to go talk to an Engineering advisor instead of just Computer Science. The guy scared the hell out of me, trying to say that I was way off and wasting time… He was saying I needed to take 2 chemistry classes and that I didn’t need Calculus III… then he told me how lost I was, because I had no idea what he was talking about. I don’t think he was able to use his computer properly and had compiled all of my past majors into what I was supposed to be taking… into one ultimate supreme super major. I felt a lot better when I checked my degree plan. After this semester I’ll be 1 class from being upper level, I’m behind but I’m not that far behind. Needless to say that I missed my chance to preregister because he was a moron. I need to email him with my classes this week (at least for summer and my last lower level class).
~Apartment~
Gateway turned out to be a pain. But I’m moving, and that’s primarily what I want. Increasingly, I’ve feel a lot stronger in my theory that people (or I guess a least me) take on a personality reflecting how they react to their living environment. When I moved to live alone, I seriously thought I’d be so much more productive. I thought of all the things I could do with all my free time, space, privacy, and sleep. Of course things didn’t turn out like I imagined. I basically stagnated for a solid year and didn’t accomplish anything, school or otherwise. I was more productive (although a little crazed) living with other people, I'm glad I recognized that earlier this year when I was given the opportunity to move and have myself set up for a new year in an environment very different than my current one, and one that better reflects previous living spaces where I passed the classes that mattered.
That’s all I got, I’ll try to get a post out that isn’t depressing soon, I promise.