Wow, it's been a really busy week. And even though I can complain that it was because we had two quizzes and two homework assignments for Chinese this week, I would mostly be lying because Chinese really isn't a lot of work at all. But, I don't want to ask anyone else in the class whether they share my opinion because I might come off looking like a jerk. Both homework and quizzes make me memorize the Chinese characters which is awesome because it's fun to read and write them. Anyway, yes, straying back to the original topic, thankfully there was no Algorithms homework this week because it would've been the death of me. I did have a Paradigms assignment which was thankfully small enough to get completed within five hours in the wee hours of Thursday morning (sans code commenting of course). And then there was the Physics problem set which caused the most nuisance this week and made me stay up till five yesterday and didn't even let me have the satisfaction of finishing it. No, I had to skip the CS lecture, not for sleep or pleasure, but to finish the Physics problem set so that I could submit it and get to work by… <oops, got distracted by a game of Tetris in which I just beat my own long-standing high score>… 1pm. Yeah, that was a race against time; I finished the PS at 12:47, left the dorm at 12:49, went to Hewlett to drop the assignment and reached work at precisely 1:00pm… which was good because there's this bonus you get at the end of the quarter if you made all your shifts on time and 1:01pm would've been bad news in that respect.
Four hours of work and I was completely exhausted, had dinner, started watching Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (with Wizard People commentary) with a couple of friends but was so sleepy that I couldn't finish watching that and went to take a nap instead. Got up from the nap about five hours ago and the room was empty; my curiosity did not compel me to call someone and ask where everyone was because my chain of thought was interrupted by an invitation to play DotA, which I gladly accepted. And now that I've made another high score in Tetris, it looks like this week's purpose has been fulfilled.
Oh yeah, and I went to this career fair on Tuesday. It made me realize how similar career fairs, glasses of milk and friction are - all quite necessarily but most undesirable. But, cool thing was that, at the Apple booth-stall-thing, instead of giving business cards, they gave away "One free song" iTunes Store cards (which actually haven't been updated and are still living in the "iTunes Music Store" era) and so today I ended up downloading Somewhere Over the Rainbow, a really beautifully sung song by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole (good thing I don't have pronounce stuff while typing).
And yeah, those red iPod nanos? So not interesting.
Four hours of work and I was completely exhausted, had dinner, started watching Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (with Wizard People commentary) with a couple of friends but was so sleepy that I couldn't finish watching that and went to take a nap instead. Got up from the nap about five hours ago and the room was empty; my curiosity did not compel me to call someone and ask where everyone was because my chain of thought was interrupted by an invitation to play DotA, which I gladly accepted. And now that I've made another high score in Tetris, it looks like this week's purpose has been fulfilled.
Oh yeah, and I went to this career fair on Tuesday. It made me realize how similar career fairs, glasses of milk and friction are - all quite necessarily but most undesirable. But, cool thing was that, at the Apple booth-stall-thing, instead of giving business cards, they gave away "One free song" iTunes Store cards (which actually haven't been updated and are still living in the "iTunes Music Store" era) and so today I ended up downloading Somewhere Over the Rainbow, a really beautifully sung song by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole (good thing I don't have pronounce stuff while typing).
And yeah, those red iPod nanos? So not interesting.
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