i don’t know what is going on but everyone and their mom seems to be having a rough semester, and it’s only the beginning of the third week. my classes are still not quite in order and i have a bunch of kinks to work out as far as the administrative stuff is concerned.
i have to drop one of my classes. one class that i was really really REALLY looking forward to, because of a professor. a professor who cannot seem to mesh with the class and provide a way to learn all the magical stuff in his head. actually, he makes a lot of mistakes, then argues with the class when he makes mistakes and then tries to oversimplify the most basic of basics because he thinks we (obviously) don’t understand the simple concepts needed to proceed. of course, this all arises from the fact he made the mistakes to begin with and feels the need to defend all of his answers, even though they are (obviously) incorrect. blergh.
also, when most of the class couldn’t figure out how to work 1 problem in matlab, his answer was we should have googled it and taken someone else’s code and pasted it into the homework. wtf? who does that? i mean, honestly, how many professors prefer that you find someone else’s work on the internet and present it as your own work, rather than asking the professor the correct way to approach the problem and then continue to solve on your own?
that being said, i am going to try and squeeze into a class (on the third week of school) that i don’t have all the prerequisites for, in an attempt to possibly save myself from the fourth level of hell and learn something in the process.
and now, back to the show!
for the last couple of days i’ve been messing around with wiki software. i tried out wakkawiki as well as pmwiki because they were the easiest to set up. (they were part of my simplescripts list for the hosting company i use). unfortunately, i wanted a wiki where i could section off parts of it and give different users (preferably part of different groups) access to read/write. i did not want site wide read/write access, nor did i think having a different markup language was the way to go.
mediawiki appears to be the holy grail of wiki software. unfortunately, it seems to also have a bazillion options i really don’t need. after doing a bunch of research i came across dokuwiki, which i think will satisfy all the needs i have. i’ll give updates on how it’s working out.
well, it’s 1 am and i am up again. super tired, but cant sleep. booo. tomorrow is a day full of errands, hospital, homework, and a class. class from 6-9! should be interesting.
i learned that we have a new computer lab policy. students are only allowed to print 10 pages a day. wtf? some of the articles and documents and notes we need to print out are 40 pages long, easy. i had lab write-ups that were longer than 10 pages. it makes me a little bitter and angry about my exponentially increasing lab fees. like 300 – 800 in a span of a couple of years increasing. fucking lame.
gearing up and looking forward to a D&D 4.0 campaign with a bunch of mo’s. which should also be pretty interesting.
i guess i’ll listen to a robot podcast or two and hopefully pass out.
is it really already time for the final semester of my undergraduate career to start? indeed it is. well, it started on monday but i was recovering from vacation/lack of internet at home and getting all my crap together.
up this semester:
- digital signal processing
- communication theory
- device electronics
- control systems
- senior design
so far it promises to be A LOT of work.
“med school is hard to get into, but once you get in it’s not hard to finish. engineering school, on the other hand is easy to get into…it’s finishing that is the problem.” this from a girl who just got into med school…hrm.
in other news, i have decided to sell my laptop and buy a netbook instead. i’ve settled on a white eee pc. it’s adorable and tiny. 
