After talking with Mike Hoban, I’m adding Advanced Handball to my schedule.
It’s a two hour class on Tuesday from 3 to 4:50. There are only 5 guys in it and I know them all, we were in the Regular (actually, only) Handball class last semester. Should be fun. Alas, it’s only 0.5 credits though.
Whew. EPICS II is finally done.
Presentation when great. Dr. Knecht was very impressed (or so it seemed). Should be getting an A which will raise last semester GPA some.
Unfortunately, I missed Calc III because the presentation took way longer then I expected (~30 minutes). But it’s done and I’m going to (hopefully) get notes from Matt and/or Charity.
Update: Grab the Letter of Transmital and The Report
First class of swimming this morning. Wow, what a workout. I’m in pretty good shape but we swam a lot of laps. I hope every day is not like this.
This is could be considered part two of the conversation that Annie and I had the other day online and the funny Facebook shenanigans thereof. For the record, I did really need help with an experiment. The details aren’t too important and programmers are really the only ones who would care enough to actually figure out what the heck is going on. In short, Facebook has some weird behavior that doesn’t quite make sense and it was critical that I test the conditions under which this behavior could be replicated.
However, my story really starts just over a month ago. I was talking randomly with this girl and she was really funny. So after contemplating
for some time, I finally decided to ask her out. The good news is, I didn’t get a “no.” Of course, the bad news I didn’t get a “yes” either. I actually
got something complete unexpected: she currently had “boyfriend(ish)” who she was planning on breaking up with (and I had no idea about), but then she said, “Check back in a month….and don’t weenie out on me!”
That was right before Christmas Break. That brings me to yesterday, first day back. We have Physics II together. Unfortunately, we have this stupid little test to take in class. She finishes before I do and leaves before I can ask again. I was finally able to track her down and asked her. After some quizzing on what I meant by date (I had to promise not to chase tornado’s, fire trucks, ambulances, and like), she goes: “we’re on.”
For those who know me, this is a pretty big thing, similar to getting a 4.0 in your hardest class.
P.S. I would have sent this out earlier, but I had to go skiing today. A foot of fresh and riding on North America’s highest chairlift (Summit:
12,840ft). It’s a hard life, let me tell you 😉 .
I got up at 7ish and was out the door by 7:15 to grab breakfast. I talked with Zach, Curtis, Goodwin, and others in the Cafe.
I headed over to my swimming class a little before 8, only to find out that it was cancelled for the day. Ugh.
Physics II at 9 was just an initial battery of questions to see what we knew. Not very much, I’m afraid; although I’m sure that was the expected result.
Statics at 10. Nothing much except tons of homework due every class period.
Calc III at 1 should be very interesting. More on that at a later date.
Econ at 2 is a rather large class, but should be pretty good.
I’m finally at a place where I feel that I can be entirely paperless. The begining of a semester always provides a nice transision, so here goes:
The Goal: Go (almost) entirely paperless
The Exception: Classes that require handwritten assignments
…I’ll post updates as time goes by, perhaps a weekly Friday update would be in order.
I stopped by the cafe today to grab the individual meal prices so I could finish my calculations. This is amazing. Unless you’re getting the 19 meal/week plan, do not get a meal plan. Any meal plan. Here’s what I figured:
Breakfast: $4.20
Lunch: $5.50
Dinner: $6.25
Average Meal Price: $5.32
Eating three meals a day, five days a week costs $79.75. Assuming there are 16 weeks in a semester, that comes to $1276. All dorm-based meal plans cost $1566. The Quartz Plan (15 meals/week + $100 Munch Money) has an average meal cost of $6.11. The Granite Plan (150 meals/semester + $175 Munch Money) has an average meal cost of $9.27. The Topaz Plan (125 meals/semester + $250 Munch Money) has an average meal cost of, brace yourselves, $10.53! But here’s my favorite: The Agate Plan is designed commuters and staff. You get 25 meals per semester and nothing else, yet it costs $155 for an average meal cost of $6.20! Unless you get dinner every single time (this saving an amazing 5 cents per a meal), you end up losing tons of money. WTF?
I went to Quinn’s CS class this afternoon. Yes, I did bitch him out for taking JAVA and not C++. However, UW doesn’t have any other options. Curious.
I was back at SAAS today, doing some consulting for Mike Haykin. I always like going back to SAAS, I have no idea why. It’s fun to talk with the teachers and see what everyone is up to.
Mike and I talked about how SAAS prepared me for college and what could be done better. We also talked about new program ideas for SAAS. Sounds like an economics class might be in the works.
For the upcoming semester, I was planning on getting a meal plan because A) I’m on campus so much, and B) I don’t like cooking. I have six choices and I’m trying to figure out which one gives me the biggest bang for my buck:
| Meal Plan | Weekly Meal Allowance |
Cost Per Semester |
|
| Marble Plan | 19 meals/week + $50 Munch Money/semester | $1,566.00 | |
| Quartz Plan | 15 meals/week + $100 Munch Money/semester | $1,566.00 | |
| Granite Plan | 150 meals/semester + $175 Munch Money/semester | $1,566.00 | |
| Topaz Plan | 125 meals/semester + $250 Munch Money/semester(available for RHA Mines Park Students only) | $1,566.00 | |
| COMMUTER/FACULTY AND STAFF PLANS | |||
| Silver Plan | 50 meals/semester + $250 Gold card money | $530.00 | |
| Agate Plan | 25 meals/semester | $155.00 |
Note: “Munch Money” and “Gold Card Money” has the same value as regular money. A copy of the Rocky Mountain News is subsidized in the cost (actually two copies of RMN and two copies of The Denver Post, however I don’t read the latter).