Posted on Sunday, April 18, 2010 at
So, it turns out that I didn’t get into Columbia’s Comp Eng program, but the EE program. I must have chickened out at the very at minute when applying and changed my major. When I look at what EE’s do for a living, though, I’m more and more convinced that it’s not what I want to do, and that while I could just do EE and take the cards life hands me after graduation, I would rather do Comp Eng.
Posted on Tuesday, April 13, 2010 at
First, I got into USC’s combined plan program.
Second, I got into Columbia’s combined plan program.
Third, PROFIT!!!!!!! (or extreme dancing)
I’m pretty stoked right about now. I don’t have to go to USC, and I got into Columbia’s combined plan program for computer engineering (rather than the saner choice of electrical engineering).
The only problem is that Columbia has the power to force me to take another programming course, since I haven’t taken a computer science course at UPS (really, optimization and discrete mathematics don’t count).
Posted on Sunday, April 11, 2010 at
I got into Cal Poly’s Robotics REU program!
I’ll say it again!
WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Damn, I’m happy. Happier than winning the MCM (which is saying something). The MCM took only 4 days out of my life: this is going to put me in California, working with robots, for an entire summer. I’ll say it again.
God DAMN I’m happy.
Now it’s time to finish this lab so I can work on my reprap the rest of the week!
Posted on Saturday, April 10, 2010 at
So… life.
The reprap project is on the ropes: I spent a week cutting around getting 3.5 parts done. I have maybe 4-7 weeks left to finish it: the math just does not add up. My project partner is MIA, and Digikey is holding up my order for some reason, perhaps because I ordered a bunch of cable to be custom cut. At any rate, I still have some of the harder parts to cut ahead of me, and the homework is not going to let up from here to the end of school.
Posted on Tuesday, April 6, 2010 at
So, I pretty much got a minimal amount of sleep last nightmorning, and not a whole much more the day before that. So, I’m running pretty close to empty, but at least I don’t have anything big and wildly unfinished due tomorrow. Dumping core right now probably isn’t the best idea, but like drunk people, I’ll think it’s a good idea at the time and just go with it.
Man, I still can’t believe that we got finalist in the MCM; it’s strange, because you hope that you do well, but you have to grid yourself for an almost inevitable disappointment.
Posted on Monday, April 5, 2010 at
Well, well, well: guess who’s MCM team got a finalist designation! Meaning that we were in the top 1% of the MCM teams; unfortunately, I think that the lack of graphics in my section might have contributed to our failure to attain outstanding (right, so I’ll stop with the self-blame and try to maintain a better self-view). But at any rate, I’m pretty stoked about the whole high-percentage thing, and we’re gonna have a quick little celebration.