After colleges deliberating on my future, I'm going to UC Santa Barbara, or as I like to call it the University of Crazy Students at Beaches. Okay, I just made that up. But it'll be a pretty sight compared to the urban atmosphere of Berkeley. And if I can get a car, I will be set.
Specificially, I want a manual car. Considering my recent infatuation with Rally cars, and that I live in the desert, I would really like a car with a little off-road prowess, perhaps some AWD. Though that will mess with the mileage, which is bad.
In other news, the EJC/SWE Dance was lots of fun. Granted that my date was drunk and tipsy for most of the dance from the pre-party we had, but it was still great fun.
Monday, April 26, 2004
Friday, April 16, 2004
JIT, I said JIT!
I saw freedom in the distance, and then it came crashing down. Though I still should be able to do laundry, which is a good thing. Sunday was supposed to be a day of ferverent cramming and washing, but half of it has been relegated to the EECS faculty.
In other news this week, ASUC elections are over, and I hope that the APPLE-Engineering candidates get in. Will they really, I don't know. At least they have a better chance than when I ran last year, with their improved organization. On the other hand, I don't know if all of them are ready for the vigor of ASUC politics. Misha is a seasoned veteran, of course, and Peter seemed impassioned. But the other three seem almost too nice to be able to stand the ASUC. I'm sure they'll prove me wrong when they are elected.
On the one hand, E-Week was less successful than in past years, with less participation across the board, which resulted in the cancelling of a few events (e.g. Nerd Contest and CTF). On the other, the activities are the type of activities we should be doing on E-Week; relays and scavenger hunts and date auction, etc. Big props to Brian "Old Angry Man" Love for his efforts (with Peter Chung being now dubbed "Angry Man"). Hopefully future years will build upon these developments, maybe considering moving the Bechtel Terrace to next to McLaughlin or in front of Evans or something.
In the next week I plan to cram for my final midterm as an undergraduate, finish coding a usable Viterbi decoder, and then enjoy it all with a dinner at Rainforest Cafe with Stanford IEEE and EJC/SWE style clubbing at the Mirage, EJC/SWE dance.
In other news this week, ASUC elections are over, and I hope that the APPLE-Engineering candidates get in. Will they really, I don't know. At least they have a better chance than when I ran last year, with their improved organization. On the other hand, I don't know if all of them are ready for the vigor of ASUC politics. Misha is a seasoned veteran, of course, and Peter seemed impassioned. But the other three seem almost too nice to be able to stand the ASUC. I'm sure they'll prove me wrong when they are elected.
On the one hand, E-Week was less successful than in past years, with less participation across the board, which resulted in the cancelling of a few events (e.g. Nerd Contest and CTF). On the other, the activities are the type of activities we should be doing on E-Week; relays and scavenger hunts and date auction, etc. Big props to Brian "Old Angry Man" Love for his efforts (with Peter Chung being now dubbed "Angry Man"). Hopefully future years will build upon these developments, maybe considering moving the Bechtel Terrace to next to McLaughlin or in front of Evans or something.
In the next week I plan to cram for my final midterm as an undergraduate, finish coding a usable Viterbi decoder, and then enjoy it all with a dinner at Rainforest Cafe with Stanford IEEE and EJC/SWE style clubbing at the Mirage, EJC/SWE dance.
Wednesday, April 07, 2004
April Fools!
It's almost been a week since the first of April, and it's a chance to recount the happenings of that day.
Segue: ASUC Elections are next week (not that anyone is reading this). I think you should vote Misha Leybovich for President and APPLE Engineering for Senate, Chris Abad, Peter Chung, Grace Hsu, and Igor Tregub.
Prank 1: Early Daylight Savings
Being in Cory on such a nice morning, I took it upon myself to cause a little bit of mischief. deQue decided to take a nap on the bean bag, and JRed IMed me with the idea of changing the clocks on her. I replied that it was a good idea. Nothing happened of it, and he too went to nap.
With both of them asleep, I jumped at the opportunity, and moved the clock ahead an hour, and changed JRed's laptop time ahead an hour (Unfortunately, I could not change the time on the department computers.) So I continued my homework and my ponderings for prank 2, until deQue awoke.
She was convinced that it was 5 a.m., and asked why I had waken her at 3 (as she had wanted), but I said that Aaron had gone to sleep at 2:45. So with that, she walked over to her computer to continue her work, and then noticed the time difference. She looked back and forth between the computer clock and the real clock, and it dawned on her what had happened.
Aaron, having had some part in this idea's inception, was not as surprised by it, though a little.
Prank 2: Free beer
The prank I concluded with after some thinking was to prank the well placed HKN display case (the IEEE display case is in the least travelled main corridor of 2nd floor Cory). They had a sign in their case advertising "FREE TUTORING/EXAMS." I would have liked to jumble around the words or make similarly spaced words, but I did not have the time for that. Instead I took some similarly colored construction paper, and taped "BEER" in the open space on the top right of the paper (right after "FREE"). It may have worked better if the colors were more similar, but no matter. Additionally, I wrote at the top of the whiteboard in their office, "Where is the??"
The "BEER" sign was taken down by 10:45 a.m. I saw it sitting in the HKN Cory office, but a check later in the day turned up nothing. I've decided that certain HKN officers (osh) have no humor.
Prank 3: Mosquito Attack?
Okay, so this wasn't a prank, and even if it were, I didn't pull it off. I went with got and solo to the Durant Food Court so that solo could get some food. Along the way, we ran into ipixi leaving a store, and she joined us. At the Food Court, we were talking, and having a good time. Ipixi started talking about how she was screaming while she was SMing, for someone to kill one of those big mosquito-like bugs. We had just exited that topic for a few minutes, when she lets out a really loud scream and ducks to her left. I thought some mosquito had attacked her, but I didn't see anything moving laterally. She said she felt something hit her head, and not seeing anything, I glanced up to see one of the many pigeons that roam that area. The pigeon had dropped one right on top of her head. It was fairly disgusting. But after wiping it off with some tissues, she went to get her eyebrows plucked and the rest of us meandered back to Cory.
Segue: ASUC Elections are next week (not that anyone is reading this). I think you should vote Misha Leybovich for President and APPLE Engineering for Senate, Chris Abad, Peter Chung, Grace Hsu, and Igor Tregub.
Prank 1: Early Daylight Savings
Being in Cory on such a nice morning, I took it upon myself to cause a little bit of mischief. deQue decided to take a nap on the bean bag, and JRed IMed me with the idea of changing the clocks on her. I replied that it was a good idea. Nothing happened of it, and he too went to nap.
With both of them asleep, I jumped at the opportunity, and moved the clock ahead an hour, and changed JRed's laptop time ahead an hour (Unfortunately, I could not change the time on the department computers.) So I continued my homework and my ponderings for prank 2, until deQue awoke.
She was convinced that it was 5 a.m., and asked why I had waken her at 3 (as she had wanted), but I said that Aaron had gone to sleep at 2:45. So with that, she walked over to her computer to continue her work, and then noticed the time difference. She looked back and forth between the computer clock and the real clock, and it dawned on her what had happened.
Aaron, having had some part in this idea's inception, was not as surprised by it, though a little.
Prank 2: Free beer
The prank I concluded with after some thinking was to prank the well placed HKN display case (the IEEE display case is in the least travelled main corridor of 2nd floor Cory). They had a sign in their case advertising "FREE TUTORING/EXAMS." I would have liked to jumble around the words or make similarly spaced words, but I did not have the time for that. Instead I took some similarly colored construction paper, and taped "BEER" in the open space on the top right of the paper (right after "FREE"). It may have worked better if the colors were more similar, but no matter. Additionally, I wrote at the top of the whiteboard in their office, "Where is the
The "BEER" sign was taken down by 10:45 a.m. I saw it sitting in the HKN Cory office, but a check later in the day turned up nothing. I've decided that certain HKN officers (osh) have no humor.
Prank 3: Mosquito Attack?
Okay, so this wasn't a prank, and even if it were, I didn't pull it off. I went with got and solo to the Durant Food Court so that solo could get some food. Along the way, we ran into ipixi leaving a store, and she joined us. At the Food Court, we were talking, and having a good time. Ipixi started talking about how she was screaming while she was SMing, for someone to kill one of those big mosquito-like bugs. We had just exited that topic for a few minutes, when she lets out a really loud scream and ducks to her left. I thought some mosquito had attacked her, but I didn't see anything moving laterally. She said she felt something hit her head, and not seeing anything, I glanced up to see one of the many pigeons that roam that area. The pigeon had dropped one right on top of her head. It was fairly disgusting. But after wiping it off with some tissues, she went to get her eyebrows plucked and the rest of us meandered back to Cory.
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