For a number of days, I had been telling myself that I needed to plan out the remainder of my college days a little better. Knowing what's coming in the future is always a good thing. So, tonight I sat down and finally made my four-year plan (that too in Excel). Before leaving for college, the only other person I talked to about study plans was a Chinese girl who had already planned out, quite intricately, exactly what she was going to be doing for each of the four years in college; I, on the other hand, didn't even know which courses I was going to take for the first term until two weeks before it started! So, making a four-year plan actually made me feel a good deal happier and it looks like I don't have all that many courses to take to survive complete the computer science major. Either way, I do hope to be able to complete some sort of non-technical minor while I'm here and my guess is that it'll be in some language or another. I did take French in school and I'm going to give take the placement test here to find out if it might be worth it to continue it and get some level of proficiency in it ("it" overload!). Even with my sort-of "fetish" for languages though, I don't think Japanese is going to happen simply because I don't have time for it… 我没有时间… I'll just have to content myself with knowing a little bit of Chinese. Oh yes, and speaking of Chinese - I had my Chinese oral exam yesterday and it totally rocked! 10/10 and everything. Now, if only I can get 99% or higher on my final exam, I'll have my first-ever A+. Sigh, that… might not… be happening.
In exciting events - I saw my first Chinese (okay, Mandarin) movie ever, "Hero" and really, really enjoyed it. I'll bring it with me to Delhi over Winter break; it's really good. I also saw Pretty Woman yesterday, which, incidentally, I hadn't seen before. It was a really good movie but I don't see why it's considered such a classic. It's good, but not that good. Did have some really funny moments though; I enjoyed it. Also, Kimberly (of "hating monosyllabic names" fame) bought a Gingerbread House Kit and so, the better part of today's 6-8pm was spent constructing an edible house which used icing as glue to hold it together and included: (a) a chimney that kept falling off until someone mercifully ate it, (b) a little gingerbread man made to look like Santa leaning against the back door, but who was actually a child rapist, (c) a swimming pool full of viscous yellow liquid that was actually butterscotch, and (d) a patrol robot made out of something chewy. That was fun.
Oh, and in other happy news, an Age of Empires II revival is happening here, and starting next term, a bunch of us are going to start playing multiplayer! AoE2 is a totally amazing game which I've been missing out on and this makes me very, very excited. I can't wait 'til our first game.
In exciting events - I saw my first Chinese (okay, Mandarin) movie ever, "Hero" and really, really enjoyed it. I'll bring it with me to Delhi over Winter break; it's really good. I also saw Pretty Woman yesterday, which, incidentally, I hadn't seen before. It was a really good movie but I don't see why it's considered such a classic. It's good, but not that good. Did have some really funny moments though; I enjoyed it. Also, Kimberly (of "hating monosyllabic names" fame) bought a Gingerbread House Kit and so, the better part of today's 6-8pm was spent constructing an edible house which used icing as glue to hold it together and included: (a) a chimney that kept falling off until someone mercifully ate it, (b) a little gingerbread man made to look like Santa leaning against the back door, but who was actually a child rapist, (c) a swimming pool full of viscous yellow liquid that was actually butterscotch, and (d) a patrol robot made out of something chewy. That was fun.
Oh, and in other happy news, an Age of Empires II revival is happening here, and starting next term, a bunch of us are going to start playing multiplayer! AoE2 is a totally amazing game which I've been missing out on and this makes me very, very excited. I can't wait 'til our first game.
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