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Starting on LON-CAPA

I’m finally hunkering down and starting on my LON-CAPA homework. For those not at Mines or the few dozen other schools that use Learning On-Line – Computer Assisted Personalized Approach, LON-CAPA is an “Open Source Freeware Distributed Learning Content Management and Assessment System” developed by the Michagan State University In short, it’s a way to deliver and automatically grade homework assignments. So while each of the students will receive relatively the same assignments, the numbers will be different (i.e. instead of the car having a velocity of 35.6 m/s, it will have a velocity of 22.9 m/s).

Storage Server Finally POSTing

PCClub identified the storage server as having a fried motherboard. They also indicated that I did…which I didn’t. However, they were able to replace if for free and I was not in a mood to fight about it.

Comments closed because of continual spamming.

First Sports Broadcast

I just completed producing Mines Internet Radio’s (MIR) first sports broadcast. The Colorado School of Mines defeated Midland Lutheran 1-0 in overtime. Very exciting. Tune in to MIR on Saturday at 1pm for the football season opener, http://radio.mines.edu (Note: link only works if you are on campus…for now).

Physics I and Chem II

I had Physics I and Chem II today and I think they will both be awesome classes. The physics teacher graduated from Mines in 2000, so he’s fairly young and hip on the good ways to teach. The Chem II teacher was that guy from Texas I mentioned in the comments section earlier. He seems pretty hip on teaching techniques too. Also, if I score a 93 or better on all my tests, I don’t have to take the Chem final! Something to work towards at least.

Oh and I also had handball, or at least the short little intro to it. We watch the Colorado State champ kick the crap out of our teacher next Monday and then we get to actually hit the ball on Wednesday.

PCClub, the Nordstrom of the Computer World

PCClub is great. That’s all that I can really say. There was a snafu in our order and the wrong chip was sent. PCClub worked with me to get get the motherboard replaced (the chip I wanted was an older Socket 478, which they didn’t have in stock at the Denver or Broomfield). This should hopefully get things going again!

No One is a Freshman

Physics Studio (or lab, whichever you prefer) was cancelled today. So I’m now done with my first day of classes.

Calculus II should be fun. Ms. McAuliffe is teaching it (I had her last semester) and she’s really good. There are no freshmen in our class.

An Hour and Ten Minutes

The Professor, Dr. Pang, just spent an hour and ten minutes lecturing on the sylabus. I didn’t even know someone could talk so long, except for Steve Retz; that man could talk all day about nothing.

Chem Class Change-up

I was checking my schedule, just to make sure nothing changed (at least scheduling wise). My Chem II class has a new teacher, Brad Herrick. Anyone know anything about this guy? Good? Bad? Mediocre?

While I am at it, anyone know anything about Eul-Soo Pang? He (or she) is teaching the Human Systems class I’m in.