Not that anyone actually thought I was dead. I've just been busy, what with sophomore year starting and every day I've realized I've bit off more than I planned to. I have a position of importance in the SnS Homecoming show (Children of Eden) (I'm Assitant Technical Director) (I would've linked to the SnS website, but our webserver's recently lobotomized itself), I've comitted to actually doing something for SAE this year, and my 4 courses+2 consecutive minis has turned into 6 full semester courses.
So I'm a MechE major going for a minor in Materials Science and Engineering. Now, in the past half of the fall sophomore curriculum was a pair of mini courses, Perfect Crystals and Defects in Materials. You would take Perfect Crystals for the first half of the semester and then use your knowledge of crystal structure to study defects in engineering materials. What they failed to convey in the documentation was that for this semester they were going to turn those courses into two full semester-long courses. Now, in reality they should be easier in this form as the same material can now be covered in 2x the time, but still, it means double the workload of a single one of these, essentially. Oh well, yea, I could drop a course, but I would then be behind in working towards my minor or my major, depending on the course I dropped.
On the upside I'm really enjoying my Programming course (my SCS friends laugh when I call it a 'CS' course); I'm actually looking forward to the lectures, mostly because I've never been formally taught most of the stuff, even though I already know much of it, and certain things I'd never known, but were very basic extensions of what I know and use I now know about (Like "i*=3; and whatnot being an extension of "i+=;" amd "i-=;") and I guess I find the prof fairly entertaining as well.
But yea...lotsa stuff has happened, I don't really feel like typing it all out as the clock nears 1am. I am tired and in dire need of a shower. Ask me about the good times that were had this past coupla weeks, and I'll tell you about them.
I'll end this post with a quote from Thermodynamics lecture today:
"How do you find the sucrosity of a squirrel?"
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You gotta let me know what's up with that programming course. What language? The set up here has launched me off on my 5th language, Fortran. I can't believe no one can just agree on one. Keep me updated, you know I like to know what's going on with everyone else!!!
~Christine
Well, if you'd bothered to click the 'programming' link, you'd see it's a course in Java for people who have experience in other languages, but not Java.
People still use FORTRAN? I thought it was like PASCAL and what not, sorta superseded by newer languages.
Yes, apparently they do, the teacher's older than dirt and seems to think that Fortran is so much more stable than anything else they have out there. I told him I had two years of C++ and he was like "that's just Fortran made complicated. you'll find this class very easy." I'm like *shrug* easy classes are always a good thing, I think....
~Christine
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