Homework left for the next 7 days: Mathematica, Physics, CS225, CS232 in that order. Oh wait, also some business agenda thing. That should take me all of 10 minutes. This weekend I want to get all of my homework done for the week, so that I can just chill during the week, learn stuff and work out (I haven’t worked out since my 24 hour fitness expired mid-august — gotta call up Kev or someone).

I don’t think I’ll stop raving about how great 8gb of ram on a MBP is. At least, after you’ve had 2gb for a while, you get 8 and open htop and think, “man this is AWESOME!”

It’s such a pleasure seeing the mem bar go from 100% to about 25%.

The only things left bugging me are
1) Speakers — my audio controller broke recently — it’s unable to accept input from anything. So all I’ve got is the main subwoofer, and even that’s spotty. The driver is fine but it has nothing to plug into.
2) SSD. SSD. SSD. OMG. SSD. The laptop I got from Liferay is AWESOME. Under 10 second boot for Ubuntu, and everything opens lighting fast. The same SSD costs $400 if I want it in my MBP though. It’s such a pain. I don’t have $400 to just throw around.

1) Mathematica Homework
Estimated Time: 7 hours (based on 7 questions, 1 took 1.5 hours, hopefully it was a longer one)
Due Friday

2) CS232 MP
Estimated Time: 5 hours. Just estimating up in case I am not as good at MIPS assembly as I might think.
Due Friday

3) Physics Prelecture & Preflight
Estimated Time: 30 minutes
Due Thursday

4) CS225 MP
Estimated time: 5 Hours. I’m overestimating my skills here.
Due Tuesday

5) Physics Homework
Estimated Time: 3-4 hours
Due Tuesday

6) Physics Prelecture/Preflight
Estimated Time: 30 minutes
Due Tuesday

Between today and tomorrow, I plan to finish the prelecture/preflight and MP. I also plan to do some of the math homework, around 3 hours worth.

Ambitious, I know.

Proficiency-ed out of CS173 Now my schedule has no 9am! I only have 10am classes or later. This is bliss.

Time to work on my CS225 MP. Tomorrow: math homework. slide for IV. CS232 MP. Physics prelecture/preflight.

My macbook pro has 8gb of ram now. Now all that remains is to buy an SSD when they get cheaper.

I still can’t find my external drives. I need my data

After the week of studying CS173, I officially am behind. MP due Tuesday and I haven’t done much (I worked on it for about an hour today), CS173 still has a quiz and homework coming up that I should do in case I don’t manage the proficiency, and physics actually assigned a crap ton of homework. I am annoyed at physics…grr.

Tired, sleeping at 1am today as promised. Tomorrow will wake at 8am to do homework. First class at the early time of 11am. Boo yeah.

Read from Ephesians this morning — that book gets right down to business, it does. Had breakfast with Jeremy as planned — it was surprisingly good considering normally it’s got a more asian feel — I asked for hot sauce this morning for my eggs, and they gave me siracha. Hrm.

I have been spending as much time at ISR as I had originally guessed (since last year while I was trying to decide housing). Joel, myself, Ethan, and KP are a pretty tight homework team. They motivate me to get stuff done because KP is always on top of things and I don’t like being “behind” whereas left to myself I might be less industrious.

It wasn’t bad. I finished an hour early, but I think I screwed up two of the later steps in my induction proof, and I think I unrolled something wrong even though I got the right answer.

Day was okay. Woke up at 7ish (a little earlier actually, but didn’t get out of bed — just stayed there awake). Ate some yogurt and grapefruit and an apple, studied. Ate lunch, studied some more. Exam. Chilled with Mike Flores, KJ, and Linas for a while before heading to ISR to do homework with KP, Ethan, and Joel.

All in all, very tiring but productive day. Last night was very good — had some heart-to-heart talk with my roomie about religion, life, and whatever. Good stuff.

It’s always cool sharing a lot of stuff with someone from a very different culture. I learned a lot.

Tonight will be MP and sleep. Tomorrow morning, breakfast at Flattop with Jeremy Nuzzo. Oh yesterday I also had lunch with Curtis Wang, who is a new grad student here that Dylan introduced me to. Pretty nice guy, need to chill more in engineering quad since everyone seems to be there.

I don’t even remember what I read this morning — I have to read before bedtime today. Grr I haven’t been journaling any of the stuff I’ve been reading.

Sitting in Saunders lounge — friggin full of Korean people. I feel left out, lol. I should learn to speak Korean. Too bad I don’t really have any Korean friends. JULIE KIM DONDE ESTA?! Oh wait there’s also..Keehyuk. And Jee Hee. Okay I think I know where to go get Korean lessons

I managed to get through all the material. Now I just need to practice it before the test itself. I have ~4 hours.

YAHHHH

Failing at studying right now. Praying for grace.

Studying during syllabus week really blows. It’s bad enough that my classes are hard this year, it’s even worse that I have to cram all this stupid stuff so early. I pray God gives me the strength to pass.

Tomorrow will be busy.

1) 5 classes tomorrow.
2) Studying 10 lessons worth of material for CS173 at night. Sorry fun, no time for you
3) Eating dinner with family one last time until thanksgiving. I love you mom and dad