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30 August 2001 - 4:56 pm
The first ACM meeting of the semester is tonight, and I'm not feeling too enthusiastic about it. I like ACM, but there are a lot of things I need to do, and being an officer of a very unorganized group is getting to be very draining. We're supposedly having a barbeque a week from tomorrow, but we haven't had any meetings about it yet. Which means that no one has done things like rent a grill or do any advertising, which need to be done rather soon. I suspect I'm going to end up being very busy this weekend, and I don't want to get stuck doing all this ACM stuff. Maybe the other officers will step up.
Classes today have been very boring. We talked ad infinitum about Emerson during my English Lit. class. As I've mentioned before, I dislike Ralph Waldo Emerson, so this class was boring. But compared to graphics, where we spent an hour and a half talking about points, vectors, linear combinations, polylines, polygons, and triangles, it was a walk in the park. I'm a bit worried about this graphics class. Yesterday I was talking to a guy who was supposed to graduate last year, but he didn't get his graphics labs finished, so he's back for another semester. He screamed at me to drop the class. If I had another class to switch to, I would.
After lunch, I went to my Personal Finance class. Dr. Gordinear is usually pretty funny when he rants about "Uncle Sam taking all your money" and the "morons" he has as clients in his financial planning company. (Calling Gordinear a fiscal conservative doesn't do him justice. He's the most conservative guy I've met here at WashU by a leaps and bounds.) But today we were talking about the time value of money, which may be very interesting, but this is the fourth class I've had that covers it, so I was againvery bored.
I'm writing this post on my Visor in my final class, Mobile Robotics. The class is pretty cool (we build robots out of Legos), but I wish Dr. Smart would spend a bit more time talking about the robots we are working on in the labs, and a bit less time talking about robots other people have built. It is only the third lecture though. Maybe things will get better.
A disconnect between lectures and labs seems to be the theme for this semester, at least so far. I hope this corrects itself, because the last time that happened to me (CS342 last fall), the classes really sucked.
Assuming the Internet conection in my room is back up, this will be posted as soon as I get back. If it's not back up, I will be very, very upset.
Posted by on 1 September 2001 at 1:26 AM
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