You'd think I'd be happy about a snow day
Looks like things aren’t getting any easier as time goes by. I still have two midterms left next week, and they are likely the two most difficult ones. I also have three assignments due on Monday. I really feel like this is the weekend starting off my break, since really, next week is in theory reading week.
School was cancelled yesterday due to bad driving conditions. It didn’t affect me class-wise, since I was going to skip CS 330 anyways, due to it merely being a case study. I did, however have plans to write my Linear Opt midterm last night, but now it’s been delayed until Tuesday next week, conflicting with my Number Theory midterm which I will write the next morning. Today’s weather is no nicer; in fact, it’s much colder than yesterday.
I more or less winged it on my CS midterm, and I think it went relatively well. I’m expecting 70-80%, depending on my guessing skills. I also wrote Group Theory today, and it would have been ok if not for one question. I read it wrong at first and proved a completely different fact, wasting about fifteen minutes on a 50 minute test. I didn’t get to double check anything, so I really hope I did it right the first time. I suppose I’m not too phased, since I’m probably going to get what I deserve for the amount of time I put into studying.
My internet has been restricted for the last week. I’ve been downloading counterstrike in chunks, keeping my weekly bandwidth below 1500MB, but then I started using winamp radio stations without thinking through the consequences. That day put my over the limit, and I’ve been over the limit almost all week. Tomorrow, about 700MB will get cleared because last Saturday is when I downloaded the last CS chunk.
I had plans to go out this weekend to treat myself to being done 4/5 midterms, but unfortunately I’m only done the three easier ones. I’m still going to go out to the mall. My big plan is to buy a new used GBA game. So far likely candidates include Kirby and the Amazing Mirror, Zelda: The Minish Cap, Fire Emblem, Riviera, Shining Soul 2, or perhaps Tactics Ogre (though this is likely very rare). I want to steer away from RPGs, since I already have FFT:A and Pokemon. I was going to buy Zelda: A Link to the Past, but I’ve been playing is on my SNES emulator. It’s one of those games that every gamer has and loves, but I’ve never played very far into it at all. Unfortunately, I’m resorting to an FAQ frequently, but some of the puzzles are just so tedious and non-intuitive.
I’ve been meaning to finish off RE4, but my PS2 refuses to load it. Perhaps if there’s a price drop on the slim PS2, I’ll buy one of those to replace this clunker, and get the flip-top lid for playing burned games. Of course, that’s paying ~$140 for a more reliable experience. Is it worth it? I don’t really know, I don’t play much PS2 to begin with, but if I find myself with a deal I can’t refuse, and at rope’s end with my current console, then we’ll see what happens.
I checked my exam schedule, and it’s pretty terrible. I have two exams in the earliest and latest time slots on both April 13th and 18th, and one in the morning of the 21st. I get two full weeks between the end of classes and my first exam. I’d much rather have another week between the last exam and the start of summer classes, so I could go home for more than a week and a half, but I guess I seem to carry a curse of having an exam on the second last day of exams. I guess I can at least relax for a week before exams start, if I have to find some silver lining.
Well, maybe I’ll sleep and then phone people to go to the mall.
Listening to... Dropkick Murphys - 10 Years of Service
Link of the moment... Link to the Past @ Wiki
School was cancelled yesterday due to bad driving conditions. It didn’t affect me class-wise, since I was going to skip CS 330 anyways, due to it merely being a case study. I did, however have plans to write my Linear Opt midterm last night, but now it’s been delayed until Tuesday next week, conflicting with my Number Theory midterm which I will write the next morning. Today’s weather is no nicer; in fact, it’s much colder than yesterday.
I more or less winged it on my CS midterm, and I think it went relatively well. I’m expecting 70-80%, depending on my guessing skills. I also wrote Group Theory today, and it would have been ok if not for one question. I read it wrong at first and proved a completely different fact, wasting about fifteen minutes on a 50 minute test. I didn’t get to double check anything, so I really hope I did it right the first time. I suppose I’m not too phased, since I’m probably going to get what I deserve for the amount of time I put into studying.
My internet has been restricted for the last week. I’ve been downloading counterstrike in chunks, keeping my weekly bandwidth below 1500MB, but then I started using winamp radio stations without thinking through the consequences. That day put my over the limit, and I’ve been over the limit almost all week. Tomorrow, about 700MB will get cleared because last Saturday is when I downloaded the last CS chunk.
I had plans to go out this weekend to treat myself to being done 4/5 midterms, but unfortunately I’m only done the three easier ones. I’m still going to go out to the mall. My big plan is to buy a new used GBA game. So far likely candidates include Kirby and the Amazing Mirror, Zelda: The Minish Cap, Fire Emblem, Riviera, Shining Soul 2, or perhaps Tactics Ogre (though this is likely very rare). I want to steer away from RPGs, since I already have FFT:A and Pokemon. I was going to buy Zelda: A Link to the Past, but I’ve been playing is on my SNES emulator. It’s one of those games that every gamer has and loves, but I’ve never played very far into it at all. Unfortunately, I’m resorting to an FAQ frequently, but some of the puzzles are just so tedious and non-intuitive.
I’ve been meaning to finish off RE4, but my PS2 refuses to load it. Perhaps if there’s a price drop on the slim PS2, I’ll buy one of those to replace this clunker, and get the flip-top lid for playing burned games. Of course, that’s paying ~$140 for a more reliable experience. Is it worth it? I don’t really know, I don’t play much PS2 to begin with, but if I find myself with a deal I can’t refuse, and at rope’s end with my current console, then we’ll see what happens.
I checked my exam schedule, and it’s pretty terrible. I have two exams in the earliest and latest time slots on both April 13th and 18th, and one in the morning of the 21st. I get two full weeks between the end of classes and my first exam. I’d much rather have another week between the last exam and the start of summer classes, so I could go home for more than a week and a half, but I guess I seem to carry a curse of having an exam on the second last day of exams. I guess I can at least relax for a week before exams start, if I have to find some silver lining.
Well, maybe I’ll sleep and then phone people to go to the mall.
Listening to... Dropkick Murphys - 10 Years of Service
Link of the moment... Link to the Past @ Wiki
2 Comments:
I want them to make Final Fantasy 6 for the GBA. I'd buy that in a split second.
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Anonymous, at 2/18/2006 3:46 PM
YEAH! I'd love to hear some concrete plans for FF6 to be ported! There was speculations about 5 and 6 back when they announced 4, but they'd likely have said something by now.
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Kevin, at 2/18/2006 6:45 PM
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