Vector analysis exam is over, my on-campus work obligations are fulfilled. I am complete. Time to move home!
Archive - December, 2005
Grades!
Grades are arriving, so far so good. My first final I ended up with a B+ in the course(Math of Finance). My Data Communication Network Devices course was an A(as expected). The irony is all the course leading up to this one I got C’s in. Why? because the classes sucked, the material was irrelevant and unrelated. They revamped all the classes one semester after I took them so Dave is getting A’s in them. Three more grades pending(2 of them *should* be A’sc, one more final(Wednesday) and then….I’m done. For real done.
Once In a While They Get It Right
Senate was unable to reauthorize the PATRIOT Act and I’m pretty happy about that. I really do not see the benifits in trading significant amounts of privacy so that the government can try to stop terrorists. Why? It will not work, any intelligent human can thwart any number of security measures so by giving away our privacy we are just losing privacy and gaining very little.
Now all they need to do is figure out that the DMCA is another useless act and get rid of it. I won’t count on the government not playing to big business with that.
Fire away
Today I went shooting with the NJIT Gun club. Vlad invited me along so I decided to go because I’ve wanted to shoot for a long time. We went to The Bullet Hole in Belleville. The organizer, Rob brought a .22 rifle for everyone to use. We stayed there for about 3 hours. In that time I was able to shoot six times(we each shot 10 rounds and then switched). It’s nice to see the change in my skill from when I first shot and to the end before I left.
The End and the Prelude of Danger
Danger Strikes!:
Myself and my Celica are crusing down Friendship Road in South Brunswick. I round a bend, and from the left side of the road a deer chooses that life was not worth it. The deer starts to run in to the road as I see this I apply the breaks very aggressively. The deer is now directly in front of my car, sensing its demise it looks at the front end of my car. It jumps, its back legs don’t quite make it. A flip ensues and I hear a thud outside my car to the right. My mind thinks of all the photos its seen of Celica’s after hitting a deer. I’m expecting the worst, I’m pretty shaken so I walk the long way around my car to see what happened. As I get to the front of my car I don’t see anything, this confused me. I was expecting torn sheet metal and blood. I crouched down to see if I missed damage to the lower front of my car. Nothing. God is good. My car should be seriously jacked up but its not, I have two little dents that have no scratches on them so they are hard to find unless the light is right.
Sunday I spent all day finishing off the bed I have been working on. Well, my Dad really built most of it, I wasn’t around to work on it so he just went ahead and finished. My part was to stain the wood so it looked nice. I went through a little more than a quart of Stain/Poly combo doing this. Sunday night Dad and I did the final drilling and assembly. The bed looks great now that its done and I’m happy I decided to do this.
Now that the bed is built I had to dispose of the old one from my room. My dad wanted to keep the old head and foot board so that made it easy. The only thing I had left was the frame that the matress rested on.
Nails Attack!:
Now I’ve known for a long time that this frame was pretty broken and that was part of my motivation for building this new bed. As we started to dissassemble the bed I decided to pull out the broken board by hand since it was an easy way to reduce the number of parts we had to take apart. After removing the boards I saw there were two nails sticking out. I did not want anyone to get hurt by them so I decided to bend them over with a hammer. Easy, a couple hits later and they were flattened to the board but they still stuck out out I decided to bend them over again on to the other side of the board. I took two hits the first did nothing, the second one caused a nail to come flying out of the board and right at my eye. I’m not sure if I closed it in time or not but I can still see, so thats all that matters.
The End:
Monday was a monday like every other monday, stupid 8:30AM Vector Analysis. However the catch is that is my last day of classes in college. Super awesome. The reality of graduation is here, I’m done. Four and a half years and lots of money has earned me the right to call myself a Computer Engineer(rock!).
I think I’ll be changing the title of my blog in the next few months(after I’ve Entered the Real World). I’m not sure what it will become.. but I’ve decided that it will change as my life changes.
Nazi Pop Music
Its just what the world needs. The white supremacist group is too small, so Pop music made by teenagers is a sure-fire route to recruit new little Nazi’s.
Anyway I found this group called Prussian Blue, its two pre-teen girls singing songs about how great Hitler was. Mind boggling really. I think having your children do this kind of stuff is child abuse. Kids should not have to have these kind of ideas imposed on them by parents. The ideas are inherently anti-social, they do not promote any good values.
The Reality of Change
I’m quickly coming to the realization of how soon I will be thrust in to the “Real World” as the title of this blog mentions. Every day this week I’ve been getting emails relating to the fact that I am going to have my course work completed in only 14 days. Beyond that in 30 days(or so) I will begin fulltime work and actually make real money.
Tonight is my first final exam, then Friday night I have my second. After this week I don’t really have much I have to do because of the spacing of my other finals. I have 2 math finals which are almost a week apart, the good thing is that the hard one is the last one.