I've Got Sunshiiiiiiine

The sun has made a stable return for the time being! It's a wonderful thing, it is...I actually got sunburnt the other day. Which doesn't necessarily sound like the best of things, but considering I'm from Seattle, the pride in being able to get a sunburn in February far outweighs the itching that ensues.

I have survived through nigh all of the mid-midterms that seem to have cropped up over the past week or so...just one more due Monday and I have a few weeks of no tests, which should be quite nice. In CS, we've stopped using Scheme and switched to Java, which makes me very happy...while I've never used Java, it makes way more sense to me than Scheme did, so the programming goes a little faster. We had a super-cool visiting prospective student earlier this week who was both a twin and of the same full first name as me...talk about cool. And in other exciting news, we finally moved the scary couch so that we can walk through our room. It's pretty exciting stuff. Yeah...my life's kinda boring right now, guys, cut me some slack.

Recently, I've been taking more advantage than usual of the power of the study group to get homework done. Not until this semester had I really ever gone with a crowd of people to Platt to sit at the spiffy tables in the back with whiteboards, trying to piece together how to do a particularly rough Chemistry problem. I don't know why I haven't gone much before. I mean, there's free coffee and whiteboard space and clusters of people stuck on the same problem as the one on which I'm working. It's been helping me to get work done a little faster, as I seem to have somewhat more this semester. Heh.

Other news...working at the Homework Hotline has been pretty cool, in spite of the lack of calls in general on these recent Sunday nights. It seems that the Pomona and Claremont school districts are in the midst of a series of long weekends that have relegated the "Oh shoot I need to finish my homework" time until Monday night. It makes it nice and peaceful for us for now, but it would be nice someday to actually get a call. But that will happen sometime soon, I'm sure.


Next week, hopefully I'll have interesting things to say. See ya guys.