So, over the last week and a half, I had even more adventures with my bike. Apparently, the rear tyre had completely broken down. Since it was too expensive to get it repaired, I decided to walk to and between all of my classes, which was actually kind-of fun, although it came at the cost of much annoyance to my roommates who, being honourable gentlemen, couldn't bike away while leaving me following behind when we were going somewhere together, and so had to either walk themselves or ride very slowly. Anyway, that has since been remedied as I bit the bullet and got the tyre replaced yesterday for some unearthly amount that is too painful to mention.
Anyway, things are going well with academic-minded me. As of now, I have only skipped one lecture, with almost a fifth of the term over, and all my homework assignments have been handed in and on time. Also, since I have declared my CS major, I've gotten my very own @cs email address (as mentioned earlier) and also have got access to a lot of stuff in the CS building (like computer labs). And, after a lot of chakkar-lagaoing around my CS advisors (both former and current), I have managed to file petitions for exemption from some basic mathematics and computer science courses whose equivalents I had already completed in school. Hopefully, those will be (a) granted and (b) granted by the end of this week.
In other awesome, email-address-related news, I also have an @rescomp email address now, thanks to my new job at Residential Computing, which is also, by the way, pretty awesome. Of course, being a part of Residential Computing also allows me to do all kinds of neat stuff, but I'll refrain from going on another power trip just now. But yeah, it pays better than the other desk job, although I have other attachments there :-).
Also, yesterday I worked out most of the kinks in my four-year plan at Stanford and I should be able to graduate with B.Sc. The good news is that if I remain on track, I should be able to finish 98% of my B.Sc. by the end of next year, and thus have space for another small major of some sort. Which is why I'm seriously thinking of getting a Bachelor of Arts in Chinese, which, at 43 units, is incidentally the smallest major here.
That, and two things are going away. The first is my iPod Shuffle. After a month and some of ownership, I've figured that I hardly ever use it and prefer my Nano over it in almost every way. So, at approximately 6.30pm tonight, I will have a little more cash than iPod. The second thing that's going away is this journal. Incidentally, it will not be going away at 6.30pm tonight leaving me more cash than journal, but rather once I reach the five-hundredth post (I think I mentioned a while (a while being a couple of years) ago that powers of ten are rather important to humans). And when the five-hundredth post arrives, which should be soon enough, though not in the next couple of days, I will probably aptly entitle it something like "Five Hundred".
Anyway, things are going well with academic-minded me. As of now, I have only skipped one lecture, with almost a fifth of the term over, and all my homework assignments have been handed in and on time. Also, since I have declared my CS major, I've gotten my very own @cs email address (as mentioned earlier) and also have got access to a lot of stuff in the CS building (like computer labs). And, after a lot of chakkar-lagaoing around my CS advisors (both former and current), I have managed to file petitions for exemption from some basic mathematics and computer science courses whose equivalents I had already completed in school. Hopefully, those will be (a) granted and (b) granted by the end of this week.
In other awesome, email-address-related news, I also have an @rescomp email address now, thanks to my new job at Residential Computing, which is also, by the way, pretty awesome. Of course, being a part of Residential Computing also allows me to do all kinds of neat stuff, but I'll refrain from going on another power trip just now. But yeah, it pays better than the other desk job, although I have other attachments there :-).
Also, yesterday I worked out most of the kinks in my four-year plan at Stanford and I should be able to graduate with B.Sc. The good news is that if I remain on track, I should be able to finish 98% of my B.Sc. by the end of next year, and thus have space for another small major of some sort. Which is why I'm seriously thinking of getting a Bachelor of Arts in Chinese, which, at 43 units, is incidentally the smallest major here.
That, and two things are going away. The first is my iPod Shuffle. After a month and some of ownership, I've figured that I hardly ever use it and prefer my Nano over it in almost every way. So, at approximately 6.30pm tonight, I will have a little more cash than iPod. The second thing that's going away is this journal. Incidentally, it will not be going away at 6.30pm tonight leaving me more cash than journal, but rather once I reach the five-hundredth post (I think I mentioned a while (a while being a couple of years) ago that powers of ten are rather important to humans). And when the five-hundredth post arrives, which should be soon enough, though not in the next couple of days, I will probably aptly entitle it something like "Five Hundred".
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