Nameless....

So I suppose I'm suppose to update the oblivion that is my Blog to my activities since the 26th. With little else to post, and hw to do, let us proceed.

Thursday was the horrible, horribly comm midterm, and boat dance and, subsequently, the Student Action party. It was nice to take a ride in the Bay, but the "dance" part was pretty bad... bad speakers, bad DJ, small space. The Student Action party was so much better; it even got broken up by the cops, though apparently that was largely because a bunch of campaign signs fell off one of their trucks. The music was better, the dance floor was still kinda small, but it was more square, and the selection of drinks was limited (to kegs).

Friday was spent, watching the Men's Octet's "Unbuttoned" show. I hadn't see the Octet all year, and I recognized two people, one just around Cory (apparently he's an EECS major) and the other from Hankido.

The weekend was largely spent on the 192 cars and helping others with 129 (dang dyslexia-esque, confusing me for the last week). Missed like two parties/get-togethers because of it. While we had a 35 second car for a short time, the speed on it was turned too high and it crashed bad, destroying our temporary servo mount (that I put together with tape, wood, and styrofoam) and some plexiglass. We replaced the sensor mount and the servo mount, and nothing was the same afterwards, maybe because the outside sensors were mounted 12 inches away, as opposed to 10 inches. The other car was running at between 45 and 50 seconds at one point, but lost like 5 seconds between the time I went home to take a shower and my return. Ultimately, our cars ran 2nd and 3rd last, and that was only because the opamp on their sensor board failed. Afterwards, we had dinner with Prof. Fearing at La Val's and played Petals Around a Rose. Great fun.

During this time, I set up the degree petition at www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~devang/degree.php to try to get the College of Engineering to give print diplomas with our major on it. There was some hassle with not asking PTS before using a t-shirt design. Though not the initial culprit, I didn't think to stress the point that we need to ask them first (something to keep in mind for the future). It was replaced with a bear that Grace described as "sad," which reflects the emotions of engineers without their major on their diplomas. :) Though the "sad bear" is starting to grow on me. It may have to replace the PTS transformer bear, as my buddy icon at school or in the future.

Hmmm... oddly enough, it feels as if I've met an unusual number of people with the same name (specifically Grace) in a short time. There's Grace of APPLE-Engineering, Grace, who's Valerie's roomate and apparently was in my Econ 101a class, and another Grace, that I don't remember where I met her.

Since then, it's been laziness (must get other this laziness), and new IEEE officers (congrats to Ankit, Belinda, Shawn, and Jason for their elections to pres, vp, treas, and sec).

And I'm arranging an interview with Xerox in Wilsonville, OR. Yay! Though I kinda hope I will be going to UCSB. Easier.