May 20, 2005
Helping out a friend
A friend of mine is doing her Masters Thesis in school. She needs participants in a study she is conducting.
This study is for Sacramento, and it's for same-sex domestic violence. But if you fit that bill and want to help out please checkout this flyer for details.
Posted by Scott at 01:33 PM | Comments (1)
May 19, 2005
DONE!
School is done! Finals are DONE! All assignments have been turned in!
Brain is....off.
Yee Haw!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by Scott at 09:52 AM | Comments (0)
May 16, 2005
Finals week
I have my one and only final today. So wish me luck. But also, I have a paper I need to submit for an online class that is due Wednesday.
Have I mentioned I hate school?
But after Wednesday I am free!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by Scott at 09:12 AM | Comments (0)
May 03, 2005
I hate school
OK I know I have complained about school over and over again, but it's just so evil! If any of you ever think of getting your masters degree on the side form working full time, don't. Every second of your free time will get sucked up doing homework. Every time I try and get on my bike to train for the AIDS Life Cycle Ride I end up having to do homework.
Anyway I have a major project due tomorrow and that is it. All that will be left is my final, no more homework. Maybe after tomorrow I will have a life again. That sure will be nifty!
Posted by Scott at 09:12 AM | Comments (0)
January 24, 2005
Back to school
Today was the first day of school. Every time the first day of school comes around I always think to myself "why the hell am I doing this?" But then I start walking across campus and I see all them hot college boys and I think "oh well it's really not so bad!"
Anyway, class was not to bad. I like the subject and all, but it turns out the professor is SUPER boring. Thank god I have a laptop, I wonder if there is wireless in that room, or else I will never be able to make it.
Posted by Scott at 08:54 PM | Comments (0)
November 30, 2004
School is hell
I have a research paper I need to write, and I have not started it. I need to have it done by Friday, because Saturday we are having out housewarming/xmas party. So basically I will have NO life this week as I write this stupid paper. I will miss my life.
Posted by Scott at 10:38 AM | Comments (0)
October 07, 2004
I hate the Borg Students
OK this is a super pet peeve of mine when it comes to school. So far both in undergrad and in now in graduate school I have gone to schools where the primary amount of students are non English speaking. Mostly they are here from other countries and are here just for school. And usually they are ALL from the same country, and what country depends on the university. Anyway.....
I am not the only one to notice this either so its not must be being a racist ass, it's actually fact. All these students operate on a single mind. Like when they do homework, they all do it together, they all get 100%. And its not because they all know what they are doing, its because one of them knows what thy are doing, or collectively they know what they are doing. Anyway this pissed me off cause it fucks up the curve. For instance I have the lowest grade in the class right now. Mind you I do make mistakes on my homework so it's not like I did "good" on them or anything but I can't compete with the Borg perfection here.
But this is the kicker here. When we have a review session in class for the midterm everyone kept asking questions on the homework as if they had NO idea what the hell was going on. How could that be? I mean they all got 100% didn't they? Shouldn't they all know this stuff? Grrr..... The one thing that makes it semi ok is that they will crash and burn on the midterm and I will excel, because I actually did the homework myself and learned, even if I did bad on it, I learn fro my mistakes cause they are MY mistakes, not someone elses.
Anyway tonight is our first midterm, and I hope those Borg students crash and burn as they are forced to do actual work on their own and not as part of the collective.
Posted by Scott at 09:21 AM | Comments (0)
September 24, 2004
Some school excitement
I also got to talk to my professor for the first time which was kinda fun. He actually works with me, but I had never met him before because he works for a different department that my group does not directly deal with. This basically means he is not one of my customers so I never see him. But it is kinda odd that he works in the same divisions and even on the same floor as me. Remember the site I work at has 7000 employees in it. People always say to me, oh you work at blah, do you know this guy. And I am like, there are 7000 people there unless he sits next to me or is one of my customers no I don't know him.
Anyway I have no idea what I am talking about anymore. All I know is that today is Friday, and its almost the weekend. Yippy!!!!!!
Posted by Scott at 09:29 AM | Comments (0)
August 31, 2004
School.... :(
Well it's that time of year again. Today is my first day of school. I took the last semester off so I had a semester and summer vacation off. I am really not motivated to go back but I am SOOOO close to my masters degree I can't stop now.
Anyway, I guess today officially starts the end of me having a life. I am one of those people that refuses to do homework when I get home from work. I mean I worked for 8 hours, the last think I wanna do is go home and do more work, going to class after work is about all I can handle. So I end up doing homework on the weekends, which effectively ruins my weekends.
Anyway, oh well! School here I come, look out!
Posted by Scott at 10:44 AM | Comments (0)
December 16, 2003
Let the celebration begin
Yesterday was my final. I took it, I wrote my research paper and finished it around 10:30 last night. School is now officially done for the semester!!!!! YEE HAW!!!!
Posted by Scott at 11:57 AM | Comments (0)
November 24, 2003
Someone please save me
I have a midterm today. This is why I hate school. School would be perfect if you just took away all the classes, and the homework, and the tests! Wait there is a flaw in that plan huh? I just feel both prepared and unprepared today. Cause I went over the review sheet and I basically knew it all, I reviewed the stuff I did not. But I feel like I did not study enough, even though I know what I need to know. Ya know? I feel like I should have studied more, even though at the same time I know I do not need to. I am just freaked out cause this professor is one of those that grades really picky like.
Anyway wish me luck, this should be in interesting experience to say the least. But at least afterwards I get to see a movie with my kick ass boyfriend!
Posted by Scott at 09:12 AM | Comments (0)
October 20, 2003
No Meltdown but damn I'm stupid
So um ya, my research paper is actually not due today apparently. I am a model of disorganization. But see this is the thing. I work full time and go to school, which means basically I have to do my homework on the weekends. So it don't matter if its due on wednesday or whatever, I need to have it done before monday or else it does not get done. Hence in my mind, everything is due on monday. That is where my error took place, the difference between my fake reality and the real reality.
Posted by Scott at 05:40 PM | Comments (0)
I am in meltdown mode
I have a research paper due in about 1.25 hours. This is a group project, I have my part done and turned into the other members of my group. As of this morning last I heard the rest of the paper was not done because they had not finished their parts yet. I have not heard from them, I have no idea what the hell is happening. I don’t know if my paper is done!
If I get to school today and this paper is not done, I am going to go postal!!!!!!!!!
SERENITY NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by Scott at 02:46 PM | Comments (0)
September 18, 2003
So not cool
I missed school on Monday because I had obligations at work that I simply could not get out of. I emailed my professor to make sure he was cool with it and new I wasn’t just skipping class like your basic loser. Anyway we had a homework assignment that was due on Wednesday. Since I work full time and go to school on the side, the only time I have to do homework is the weekend, because let me tell you, when I get home from work and school I am NOT doing homework. I am turning my brain off and sitting in front of the TV.
I get to class on Wednesday and find out that out of the 5 problems that were assigned to us, he decided to only make the 1st one due, the rest are no due next week. I was so pissed. Missing class aside, I still would have finished the homework over the weekend cause it’s the only time I had time. SO when you tell me on Monday that my homework is no longer due, I am going to get pissed, because I wasted my weekend doing homework that is not due.
Argh! Well anyway, I turned in all the problems but I guess I should still email the professor to make sure that was ok. I already hate this class. The semester has barely begun and I already hate this class.
Posted by Scott at 08:03 AM | Comments (0)
September 10, 2003
School is kind of pissing me off
School started last week. Not only does this signal the end of my wonderful summer vacation, but basically it means I will not sleep again until the end of the semester. Someone *please* remind me again why it’s smart to work full time and go to grad school at the same time?
I am only taking one class this semester. I have decided that I want to have some sort of life this semester. I don’t really care how long it takes me to graduate. I will get my degree eventually. I do have my bachelors already after all, the masters is really just icing on the cake, its not exactly necessary.
Anyway this one class that I have is Advanced Computer Architecture. More specifically we are focusing on the theories of parallel architecture. I know you non engineers out there have no idea what I just said, it really doesn’t matter for this story to make sense. This class is a joint class for both the Electrical Engineering dept, and the Computer Science department. The prerequisite for this class is a computer science class. I am sure you can tell right now that me as a EE major, clearly has not taken this prerequisite class because I am not a CS major. Anyway, it’s very lame cause I clearly have all the knowledge necessary for this class, I just did not take this one CS class. The professor is being a prick about this, asking to see my transcripts to see if I deserve to be in the class.
All I have to say is that if I do not get into this class, there *WILL* be some serious hell to pay. I am not a student you want to mess with, I am not afraid to bring issues all the way up the dean and start kicking a little ass. No self righteous professor will preventing from getting my degree.
I don’t really know why I care so much, this class although a fairly interesting subject matter is going to suck because the professor is so boring that you go insane by the end of class.
Posted by Scott at 07:23 AM | Comments (0)
July 16, 2003
Grrr on Sac State
As we all know I am getting my masters degree in Electrical Engineering at CSUS. I am doing this part time while I work full time. This program was designed for that. I would say 99% of everyone going there works full time while going to school. This is why all the classes are at night. But sometimes Sac State is LAME!!!! Or rather the professor is lame.
The one class that I need next semester is offered at 4:00 – 5:15pm. That is a bit of an issue for those of us that work. This totally jacks up my work schedule. Now I am going to have to come is SUPER early every day to make up for these hours. I hate that. And I garuntee you it’s because the professor was being a whinny little beotch and refusing to teach at night even though ALL of his students clearly have full time jobs and have to go way out of their way and screw up their lives to make this time. That bastard!
This on top of the class I actually wanted to take being cancelled. Why did they raise my tuition again? Why should I pay more money for them to cancel classes and schedule that at times that ruins my life?
Yet we all tolerate it because we are too involved now, can’t back out. I WILL have my masters and deal with their system is the only way to accomplish that.
Posted by Scott at 08:53 AM | Comments (0)
May 09, 2003
Heh, go figure
I had a midterm yesterday in my statistics class. Now lets all remember that statistics is the ultimate evil. While I was studying for this midterm I quickly realized I was screwed beyond all compare. Luckily about 5 seconds after I realized this, the boyfriend called and told me I was going to Leatherby’s with him and getting a hot fudge sundae. It was an offer I could not refuse.
I walked into my midterm with a sense of peace. I knew I was going to get a zero percent so why freak out, the future was already decided.
I really think there is a possibility I got a 100% on the midterm. No, seriously I am not kidding. It was open book and open note and every question was straight out of the examples in his notes. There was no thought involved. Anyone with marginal lookup skills could have passed this test.
Needless to say yesterday turned out to be a good day. I went home after class and watched season finale of Angel from the night before. Life rocks.
Posted by Scott at 08:57 AM | Comments (0)
April 09, 2003
Not afraid to ask the tough questions
No one ever said I was unwilling to speak my mind. OK, so here is the situation. I have this INSANE project I am doing for a class. If I get it turned in by friday I get 10% extra credit. Otherwise its due after spring break. I am going on vacation with the boyfriend for spring break so I need it done beforehand anyway. But I have a problem. This project is done in a programming language I never learned.
So I am doing an insane crazy project, but on top of that I am doing it in a language I don't know! This leads to me writing some rather horrific code. But more than that my code is not very flexible. There is one last module I have to make happen, but I am afraid my code will simply not accommodate it without a total rewrite. I don't have time or the willpower for a total rewrite.
I was wondering what would happen if I just plain didn't implement that function, and I still turned it in early to get my 10% extra credit. And as far as I am concerned why wonder, when you can just ask the professor. People thing I am crazy since I basically just asked the prof if it was OK to turn in an incomplete assignment, but I am on a schedule here people and some sacrifices have to be made. I am already going to have to bring my laptop on vacation with me to write a research paper. I will get this project done, even if not all the way.
My professor has not responded yet, lets hope he sees reason and agrees with me, because otherwise I am completely screwed (and not in the good way).
Posted by Scott at 01:09 PM | Comments (0)
April 07, 2003
A little curse to ease my tortured soul
I curse the IT department here at Sac State. I am doing this super huge project, and the license server for the software I am using keeps going down, so I can't compile my work. This of course leads to downtime. And that is time I don't have.
So I curse the IT department, may a thousand screaming drag queens be set loose upon them to exact my revenge.
Posted by Scott at 02:28 PM | Comments (0)
April 01, 2003
Now I am scared
I currently have this super crazy project I have to do for my computer system architecture class. It was suppose to be done on the 8th, but he was nice and now its due on the 22nd. This is an issue for me since that means its due after spring break. I am supposed to go on vacation with D for spring break.
I have been making good progress, but now I have gotten far enough to see the true scary nature of the project. You know that feeling right? You saw the end coming near, then you got just a bit deeper into it and now your freaked out cause you truly see the whole scary complexity of the task.
Anyway the point is, I have to finish early, before spring break cause I AM going on vacation damn it.
I am in class right now, listening to a presentation on this project. This is what prompted my mini panic attack. And thanks to the wonders of wireless I am writing down my feelings on the subject, hehe.
Peace out
Posted by Scott at 06:45 PM | Comments (0)
March 09, 2003
Um Grrrr.....
Thanks to the wonderful budget crisis here in the state of California, there has been proposed fee increases in the state's universities. I just got a bill in the mail to pay a fee which apparently is the "proposed" fee hike which is being retroactively being billed to me for the semester I have already paid for. How nice of them.
Posted by Scott at 06:19 PM | Comments (0)
March 04, 2003
Statistics is EVIL
I hate my stat class, I hate it a lot. And who the hell invented statistics? Clearly it was invented by the devil himself. Could there be anything more confusing? Lead me to a pile of sand and tell me to build you a computer, fine, piece of cake, but ask me to work probability equations and you might as well just kill me.
Posted by Scott at 03:57 PM | Comments (0)
February 27, 2003
Argh I choked!
I totally choked when giving my presentation today. When I practiced it at home, my presentation always turned out to be exactly 20 minutes. That is perfect because my presentation was supposed to be 17-20 min. There was a time keeper, but there was no clock I could see. The time keeper just help up a sign when I had 10 min left, 5 min left, and 0 min left. Everything was going good till I see him flash the 10 min sign. I thought I was going too slow so I sped up, but then I finished my presentation in 14 min. SUCK MONKEY!
My professor told me after class that I gave a really good presentation and I was not going to be discounted much for not filling the alloted time. But still, lame!
And what is up with having to fill the entire time anyway? I understand about not wanting to go over time, but under? I mean if I was at work and I called a meeting and I finished early, everyone would cheer cause you got to get out of the meeting early!
Anyway.... I have posted my research paper and my presentation in my downloads section (for those with no lives and that want to look at them: Software Branch Prediction).
Posted by Scott at 09:23 PM | Comments (0)
February 26, 2003
Why did I volunteer for this?
I have a research paper due tomorrow. This research paper has been the bane of my existence the last couple days. My topic is "software aspects of dynamic branch prediction". Don't get me wrong, this is actually a very interesting topic. The problem is that dynamic branch prediction is fundamentally a hardware based solution. Given this fact, trying to fill 15 pages about the software aspects is not easy. I managed to fill my 15 pages, somehow, someway. I have yet to proofread it my paper. I am afraid that when I proof read it, I will realize I repeated the same thing like a billion times and I will have to delete stuff and I will no longer have 15 pages. Clearly this is a problem.
Now lets move onto the topic of this post, why I am stupid. In addition to the paper we also have to do a oral presentation in class. I don't mind oral presentations, they used to terrify me but now I just don't care. The problem is that I volunteered to give my presentation tomorrow. So not only did I have to scramble to finish my paper on time, but now I have to piece together a Power Point presentation too.
It's OK though because I am the first person in the class to give a presentation and that is a good spot to be in. There are no expectations to live up to, and you basically get graded easier cause you were the first, the trail blazer, you put yourself on the line. Everyone else went after, in order to see how you did and get ideas.
I will let y'all know how it went. I will also post my research paper and my presentation in my downloads section just in case for some freaky reason you are interested.
Posted by Scott at 08:02 PM | Comments (0)