Sweet, glorious freedom

I just finished my last final. This means that I have ended a semester. This is a magical, magical thing indeed, for soon I will be home and sleeping in my own room and spending all day doing very little (besides hopefully coding my 4d minesweeper...need to work on that). That sounds like good fun.

As far as finals week has gone...it's been some of the best fun I've had while I was here. There was no homework, so all we had to do was study and take on average about 2/3 a final a day. That's not too bad at all. Plus there were noisy minutes...I now have a battle tye-dye Grace Hopper shirt to treasure forever.

I'm probably not going to post much during break, just so's ya know. Talk to ya guys when classes resume!

1/8

Finals occur next week...thus, this post will be short, as life's a bit crazy right now. I have a Humanities portfolio due Friday along with a CS project that my partner and I have almost finished prettying up. It's weird...pretty soon, I'll be home again. I don't know what I'm going to do for a month.

This weekend will probably prove to be nice, though. Friday night is Eastmas Eve, which should be nice and festive, followed by Saturday noon's Eastmas celebrations and Saturday night's Casemas party, in which there will be SNOW. I'm excited. It's going to be fun. Plus, hopefully I'm going to get a chance to go climbing this weekend. Sometime in here I'm going to study and take finals as well, but I'm feeling okay about classes right now. Physics seems potentially scary, but that's about it.

I'm sort of excited to see how next week turns out. We don't have a study week before finals, like the "Reading week" at other colleges, but we do have Quiet Days over the next week...that is, during the next week dorms are not allowed to be noisy at all, due to the many tests being taken and the studying occurring. However, restricting us to be noise-free 24/7 would be both sad and illogical, so we have "noisy minutes", or 15-minute periods every day in which great amounts of noise are produced by any means necessary, such that we won't go insane with the quiet.


I'm frankly intrigued by the amount of quiet spare time I'll have next week...I have one final each due Monday and Tuesday, one in class each on Wednesday and Thursday, and I'm not leaving campus until Saturday. Should be nice. But I'm sort of already anxious to start second semester, as I'm super-happy about my schedule. Hmm hmm hmm.

Scooter

I hope everyone had a nice break and ate well and had a good time with family. My break was quite nice, but it’s nice being back at Mudd.

This week has actually been reasonably light homework-wise…I’ve managed to stay ahead of assignments enough that I’ve been able to show my friends Kill Bill 1 and 2 without having to stay up particularly late to make up for lost time. Mind you, the light homework this week is probably connected to the larger projects due next week, but that’s all dandy.

Tomorrow is pre-registration for spring semester for me…I’m simultaneously excited and a bit scared. See, Mudd has a very large core curriculum, meaning that freshman schedules are pretty much out of our control for the 1^st semester. However, next semester we have 2 types of electives we’re required to take – one PE and one humanities/social studies/art class. Unfortunately, the way our schedules turned out makes it very difficult to find a lot of classes that fit, and seeing as freshmen are at the end of the line for registering for classes, I’m assuming that a number of the humanities electives I like are going to be full when I get there tomorrow. Oh well. It will work out somehow.

What else is new…oh! I have a new form of transportation! See, my goal previously was to learn how to unicycle reasonably quickly once I got to Mudd, and then to use that to get between classes. Unfortunately, unicycling is rather difficult and not a super-efficient means of transport. So, knowing my sister brought a Razor scooter that she didn’t seem to be using, I asked if I could borrow it. The glorious thing about using wheels to get to class is that there’s a slight downhill from the dorm end to “ac end”, or the classroom end of campus. Thus, one can pretty much just get on the scooter, and with a few kicks you can get up to a pretty good speed. It’s been making me extremely happy, as it seems to cut my commute from my room to class down by half, meaning more time for breakfast! Also, I like scooters. There has been frequent giggling and shouting of “WEEEEE!” in my traverses of the campus.

The calendar year’s almost over, guys! Good luck all of ya with whatever’s on your plate.

Edit: I may have spoken too soon about the scooter. On the way to Physics, I faceplanted due to the poor approximation of the ground that wearing pumps gave me. Fortunately, a friend saw me fall and got me cleaned up for the most part. But I need to negotiate this whole balance-with-strange-shoes-on thing.