December 13, 2007

And then there were none

Filed under: Uncategorized — dave @ 11:21 pm

Despite numerous attempts to drop out, a few last semester scares regarding various timelines and the lure of the private sector, I am now finished with every test, paper, project and requirement that the great state of Texas and her flagship university threw at me.

As I walked the cold streets back to my apartment images and feelings from the last four years began to run through my mind and I figured I should write them down in no particular, though vaguely chronological order

  • The long walk back to Jester the first January
  • Watching Jake sprint from the police (who were on the other side of Waller Creek)
  • Bryan Plantes calling me out for language at broomball
  • Catching that raccoon in north campus
  • IPAP ‘05
  • Watching Vince run in the TD. Celebrating on Guadalupe.
  • Knocking out the Walterses with a straight flush
  • The smell of the oaks on Speedway when it rains
  • Shooting my first dove at Josh’s ranch
  • Doing a surprising number of things while still asleep and late for discipleship @ Einstein’s
  • Smoking pipe on Austin’s back porch
  • Compiling my first kernel with Al in Dan/Dylan’s apartment
  • Camping out for the Wii
  • Literally hanging out with Doug at the old office
  • Sailing
  • Wandering out of Painter and checking my watch to figure out if the sun was rising or setting (thank you Dr. Berger)
  • The lawn incident (probably the most embarrassing on the list)
  • 375 Cases
  • The Blue Collar Bachelor tour

The Final Final

Filed under: School — dave @ 4:09 pm

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:

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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.