Second week of college is going great… well, sarcastically speaking at least. Already had one almost-all-nighter == I was up till 6.05am but still went to Chinese class which I never intend on missing ever… 很好 . Sorry for the random Chinese characters that are going to show up everywhere on my entries from now on (in addition to the Hindi that will sometimes come up) because I'm kind-of obsessed and if I don't get a good grade in Chinese, I shall be sorely disappointed. But Chinese is definitely the most fun class I'm taking this quarter. It's true that you should have a fuzzy class just to dilute all the concentrated techie classes. I would not be alive right now if I had Probability Theory instead.
And shit, I am definitely a CS major. I'm talking to someone on IM and when he gives me the wrong answer for a question, I tell him he's got his "return types" mixed up… eek I'm a geek. However, CS has this bugging little component called mathematics that I'm really bad at and I just submitted a problem set yesterday in which I wrote proofs that made absolutely no sense to me or to anyone else. And I think I made a really bad decision in taking this class before my probabilty class anyway because there is a bunch of notation and a bunch of terms that I don't understand at all and the professor basically has this major problem of thinking that everyone else in the classroom is as smart as he is. He does something really complicated with logs and then says "see, it's just simple substitution" and I just shake my head and start nodding off, because, aside from being incredibly difficult, his class is also freakishly boring. Freak!
The other CS class that is Programming Paradigms is fine with me… the paradigms part that is. Programming? Not so much. Unfortunately, it inherits from a long line of classes that believe in assigning you big projects to do and I always end up starting them a day before they're due. Such a bad idea! For example, I have to devise an algorithm and write a program in C++ implementing that, test it, debug it, and everything in the next 20 hours. Oh, and I also have to squeeze in sleep, classes, meals, etc. into the same 20 hours. Gonna be fun? You bet!
Algorithms… Sleep… Class… Time? No.
And shit, I am definitely a CS major. I'm talking to someone on IM and when he gives me the wrong answer for a question, I tell him he's got his "return types" mixed up… eek I'm a geek. However, CS has this bugging little component called mathematics that I'm really bad at and I just submitted a problem set yesterday in which I wrote proofs that made absolutely no sense to me or to anyone else. And I think I made a really bad decision in taking this class before my probabilty class anyway because there is a bunch of notation and a bunch of terms that I don't understand at all and the professor basically has this major problem of thinking that everyone else in the classroom is as smart as he is. He does something really complicated with logs and then says "see, it's just simple substitution" and I just shake my head and start nodding off, because, aside from being incredibly difficult, his class is also freakishly boring. Freak!
The other CS class that is Programming Paradigms is fine with me… the paradigms part that is. Programming? Not so much. Unfortunately, it inherits from a long line of classes that believe in assigning you big projects to do and I always end up starting them a day before they're due. Such a bad idea! For example, I have to devise an algorithm and write a program in C++ implementing that, test it, debug it, and everything in the next 20 hours. Oh, and I also have to squeeze in sleep, classes, meals, etc. into the same 20 hours. Gonna be fun? You bet!
Algorithms… Sleep… Class… Time? No.
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