Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Home Sweet Home or Not
Back in elementary, high school seemed to be a far off land...a land for students better than me.
Thursday, August 7, 2008
OWNED
Don't you just hate it when things don't work out as planned. Plans always seem so shiny perfect and hopeful. However, reality just punches a tiny hold into that bubble of paradise, deflating it.
I was supposed to take two freshmen level courses at Carnegie Mellon, get two A's and two letters of recommendation.
However, not only did I not get an A, my professors do not even know my name.
And for Spaceset...
We were one the best teams. However, the damned Romanian team with their lack of creativity and arrogance, wrecked any chance of us winning. There goes my fantasy of winning first place internationally.
When I got back to Pittsburgh from Houston, I had an Electrical and Computer Engineering Exam worth 20% of my grade as well as a 3 hour homework assignment (geez what fun). To make things worse I was supposed to program Tetris even though I missed 2 recitations and 1 lecture. Yes, Tetris is a simple game, but it takes most people at least 15 hours to finish.
Amazingly by Friday, I was caught up on homework at the expense of a lot of sleep (woot! 16 hours of sleep in 7 days).
By Monday,things almost started looking up. I was going to drop a homework I wasn't going to do so I could finally catch up on my term project. But Fate has to screw me over again. The professor was going to let everyone drop their lowest homework. The only problem is that he just assigned another homework that was the same one I planned to drop (thus didn't do) plus a quiz and the "optional" bonus on the quiz. WAY TO SCREW ME OVER PROFESSOR K*****. THANKS A BILLION!
This summer sure was fun.
I was supposed to take two freshmen level courses at Carnegie Mellon, get two A's and two letters of recommendation.
However, not only did I not get an A, my professors do not even know my name.
And for Spaceset...
We were one the best teams. However, the damned Romanian team with their lack of creativity and arrogance, wrecked any chance of us winning. There goes my fantasy of winning first place internationally.
When I got back to Pittsburgh from Houston, I had an Electrical and Computer Engineering Exam worth 20% of my grade as well as a 3 hour homework assignment (geez what fun). To make things worse I was supposed to program Tetris even though I missed 2 recitations and 1 lecture. Yes, Tetris is a simple game, but it takes most people at least 15 hours to finish.
Amazingly by Friday, I was caught up on homework at the expense of a lot of sleep (woot! 16 hours of sleep in 7 days).
By Monday,things almost started looking up. I was going to drop a homework I wasn't going to do so I could finally catch up on my term project. But Fate has to screw me over again. The professor was going to let everyone drop their lowest homework. The only problem is that he just assigned another homework that was the same one I planned to drop (thus didn't do) plus a quiz and the "optional" bonus on the quiz. WAY TO SCREW ME OVER PROFESSOR K*****. THANKS A BILLION!
This summer sure was fun.
Monday, August 4, 2008
Why the heck am I here?
It all started with a random e-mail from another college about their summer program.
It ended with me spending 5 weeks and counting at Carnegie Mellon learning from how to program to building electrical systems and boolean logic.
So was it worth it?
A whole summer spent as well as thousands of dollars.
Gained two bookfuls of knowledge as well as a newfound independence.
However, I wonder everyday why the hell am I even here?
Almost everyone else here is an incoming senior, has taken at least AP Calculas BC, etc. etc. To make things worse the class average for Electrical and Computer Engineering is a mere D not even a 71!!?!? and Programming is only slightly better.... I feel extremely stupid...even more than before...get owned by Mrs. Fierro...then again for the summer. And after all this over I get to work on my summer assignments and go back to school. FUN FUN FUN.
It ended with me spending 5 weeks and counting at Carnegie Mellon learning from how to program to building electrical systems and boolean logic.
So was it worth it?
A whole summer spent as well as thousands of dollars.
Gained two bookfuls of knowledge as well as a newfound independence.
However, I wonder everyday why the hell am I even here?
Almost everyone else here is an incoming senior, has taken at least AP Calculas BC, etc. etc. To make things worse the class average for Electrical and Computer Engineering is a mere D not even a 71!!?!? and Programming is only slightly better.... I feel extremely stupid...even more than before...get owned by Mrs. Fierro...then again for the summer. And after all this over I get to work on my summer assignments and go back to school. FUN FUN FUN.