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March 04, 2003

Bat your eyes girl, be otherworldly, count your blessings, seduce a stranger. What's so wrong with being happy? Kudos to those who see through sickness. When she woke in the morning, she knew that her life had passed her by. And she called out a warning, "Don't ever let life pass you by." I suggest we learn to love ourselves before it's made illegal. When will we learn? When will we change? Just in time to see it all fall down. Those left standing will make millions writing books on the way it should have been. When she woke in the morning she knew that her life had passed her by. And she called out a warning, "Don't ever let life pass you by." Floating in this cosmic jacuzzi we are like frogs oblivious to the water starting to boil. No one flinches, we all float face down.

Ah yes March, and it's no warmer... The days, however, have steadily been getting longer and it's no longer dark at 5pm anymore, that's always a plus. I sometimes feel the best thing about the summer is that on weekends you can sleep in until noon and still have 8 hours of daylight ahead of you.

Last weekend was pretty crazy, after having taken my ece340 test on Thursday (more on that later) I went out to celebrate David's 21st. We went to Murphy's and had a great time drinking and playing cards. I even managed to get to sleep by 1:30 so I made it to all my classes on friday. The next night was more of the same, but with around three times as many people, it going on twice as long, and we had a keg up at Dave's place. And this just kidna went on like that.

Well anyway, Monday I got my ece340 test back, I got a 66, with the mean in the low 50s, so not too bad. I noticed, however, that on one of the questions I had done it correctly, gotten the right answer, and even included the proper units with my answer, but got almost half the points deducted anyway. Obviously disgusted with that, I talked to my professor and I'm pretty hopeful at getting at least some of the points back. I wouldn't normally mind but they never did anything like that when grading my homework, and I think the least they could do is be consistant. Not to mention the fact that someone, who shall remain nameless, screwed up one of the values and got the answers wrong, but recieved more points on the problem than I did.

Later yesterday, I took my first cs225 test, and it went very well. The only part I didn't breeze through was a section where you were supposed to repair a couple code chunks that weren't functioning as they were supposed to. Well anyway, after going through one of the functions, not only did I confirm it was not working, but I was also completely bewildered by how what they were doing even resembled the code's intended function. So I just crossed the whole thing out and re-wrote it. I have a feeling that wasn't what they had in mind though, I dunno, I'll have to see.

After a less than interesting/spactacular third of a semester in ece340, I took the time to reconsider a couple of my course selections to take next year. I need to take two elective labs, one I'd already decided was going to be ece320 (digital signal processing) and the other was going to be ece344 (theory and fabrication of electronic circuits) But the latter draws on 340 pretty heavily, and any friend of 340 is no friend of mine. So I found ece386 (control systems) which sounds immensly cool to anyone dorky enough to be an engineer. Essentially it involves using computers to dynamically control physical devices so that they could perform some particular task on their own in the real world. For example, you could program a robot to have a "sense of balance" or make a car follow the lines on the road and maintain a safe following distance on the interstate. Those are some more advanced goals, but it gives you an idea of where the course is coming from.

Next semester looks like it will be the trusty old 3 ece classes and 1 cs class for a total of 13 hours again. Sounds like fun if I've ever had it.

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