One week in, life is going as I had expected it to. Having an 8am class sucks incredibly way too much, but it’s for the greater good of things. I’ve managed to adjust rather well to this abrupt change in sleeping patterns from last quarter and I’m making the best out of it. I’m beginning to despise the class break that I’m stuck with, but I’m slowly finding ways to kill the hours. It should get easier once we start having programming projects, gives me something to work on other than the drone of endless math problems.
The programming course is VERY basic. Doesn’t look like we’ll even start coding until the week after next. So far we’ve learned the difference between a computer and a calculator and what a computer exactly is. I know what RAM is, thanks. I also happen to know the difference between memory and storage, but I’ll be okay with the complete reassurance of how much I know. Making my way to an easy A, right? The instructor gave us a disclaimer that he swears entirely too much, awesome. One minute into class and he’s already blurting things like “I will throw shit!”. The entertainment value is far too high.
Math… I don’t even know where to begin with this. It’s been years since I’ve taken a math class and I’m starting to remember why that’s the case. Eight in the morning with by far one of the geekiest grad students I have ever seen in my life. She resembles a 14 year old boy with long hair. She also relayed her passion for Dungeons & Dragons Online, except she called it “DDO” and explained what it was when everyone looked at her awkwardly. This will be an interesting 10 weeks.
Technology in the World. Awesome instructor. Short little southern guy that kind of looks like senior citizen Mario, mustache and all! Totally laid back too. We tend to just bullshit for an hour about random technologies and their impacts. He handed out our first “project” on Thursday. All it is, is a two page paper about a medical/wellness/agriculture technology and I have over two weeks to do it. I’m pretty sure I could write that before I even type the introduction paragraph.
Here I am laughing at the relative ease of things, when I’m back taking freshman/sophomore level classes. Hooray for switching majors. I know this stuff is going to get harder, but I think I’m going to revel in the fact that it isn’t this quarter, giving me a nice breather after the bullshit I endeared in the winter quarter.
There’s my update for the quarter so far. I’ll try my best to keep things updated… Hell I might even write some poetry at some point in the future.
