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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

YAHHHH

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