December 13, 2007
I’m 3 hours from the last final I’ll ever take as an undergrad. It is for Distributed Computing. This is one of the slides I’m studying and will be tested on:
There is an entire slide preceding this one whose sole purpose is defining the symbols on this slide. I think it takes almost all 4 years of the Computer Science training I’ve received just to be able to even begin comprehending this slide (It’s a method of solving consensus among nodes who each have failure detectors, good cocktail party conversation).
In other news, probably a 70% chance of me losing it at Mark’s wedding.
April 18, 2007
I followed a facebook ad link because somebody wrote an Scourse clone. Scourse is a fast scheduling application that scrapes UT’s course schedule and lets you choose a schedule graphically. Anywho, I pulled up CS 345: Programming Languages as it interests me and I have only one semester left.
It’s waitlisted.
Not closed, not restricted, not cancelled. Waitlisted.
Apparently registration has already begun. OHCRAPOHCRAPOHCRAPOHCRAP. When’s my time? “Tue, Apr 17 11:00am - 5:00pm and 6:00pm - Midnight ” Cue a Charlie Brown style: AAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!
So now one of the classes I need to graduate (MIS375) is waitlisted and my next opportunity to get in classes that every Junior and Senior in my majors are trying to get is Saturday. At this point, my sisters have better shots at getting ideal schedules than i do, and they don’t get to register until June-ish.
October 15, 2006
I started work at Austin Capital on Friday which is pretty sweet. I really like being employed, i mean it’s nice and all to not have a job and be a “student”, but let’s face it, as much as i enjoy sitting in lecture halls and listening to things that will not be relevant to my future life or will be learned in far greater detail on the job, i really enjoy all the other things in my life far more. But it does make for a lot of time not at home, Friday I left my house at 5:30am for a breakfast meeting and didn’t get back until 10:30pm. Bah.
August 9, 2006
Apparently I’m a 2.0 student at Austin Community College, and not in a Web 2.0 way, in a straight C GPA kinda way.
2 days remain of my Microsoft internship. I’m contemplating making a permanent page on the site that gives the odds for me ending up at various locations. I’d currently put 3:1 odds on Amazon, 20:1 odds on Microsoft, taking into account that a 3:1 payout means a 30% chance or less of it actually happening.