Checksum Arcanius

I felt well-prepared for the Statistics final I took today (well, yesterday). I needed every ounce of preparation too. There is a vague possibility that I aced it, but thats only if I got lucky on the educated guesses. You see, the problems weren’t difficult because of hard-to-understand concepts, but because of vague and convoluted wording. At any rate, everyone had to muck through the same thing, and I don’t think I’ll flunk, which is geat news. Props to Alice for helping me so much with my studying.

After that test, my attentions turned towards this morning’s Bioengineering 301 final at 8:30. I have two alarms set, but feel free to call or or come by and knock on my window to make sure I’m up before then. Overall, I don’t think I’ve studied this hard for an group of classes in a long time. I think the last time was probably Fall Semester 2002 at BYU. Good times.

Discrete Stuctures final has come and gone. I feel good about it, but only in that “I tested as well as I could have” way — what I don’t know is how well my probability-calculating skills held up — if well, then I darn near destroyed that test; otherwise, it will be ugly.

Later today, I face off with Statistics. Tomorrow is Bioengineering. Programming Languages on Thursday rounds out the set. Sleep is good too; that comes now.

Wednesday night, I didn’t go to bed; instead I stayed up to finish a Bioengineering lab report — the last one of the quarter. Thursday night, and then Friday morning, I was up late again, this time working with fellow students on the Bioengineering homework due that morning. I felt surprisingly awake even at 2:00 when I dropped the second of my classmates off at her apartment on capital hill. I considered staying up the rest of that night, but chose sleep, feeling confident in my ability to tackle the squeak assignment on Saturday. Wakng up in the early afternoon, I got to work, taking a break only to help clean up the downstairs with the housemates. A few hours ago, I finished the assignment, and I celebrated by playing some Half Life 2: Episode One.

Let me say, so far the game is excellent, and I reccomend it.

Now all I have left is four finals — Discrete Structures, Statistics, Bioengineering, and Programming Languages. None will be particularly easy.

And now, to answer the question in the title; I do, and now is the time.

UPDATE: This morning I talked to Crystal, the lead CSE academic advisor, and she pointed out that I had CSE 451 twice, and that 461 is better during the winter (when it is taught by CSE instead of EE). The question then becomes, what do I fill that 4-credit void in Autumn ’07 with? Perhaps, if I am feeling particularly masochistic, I will take Chem 239 (Organic Chemistry III!)?

Summer 2006 (4)
CSE 326 (4)

Autumn 2006 (15)
BioE 302 (4)
BioE 304 (4)
CSE 378 (4)
CSE 322 (3)

Winter 2007 (17)
BioE 303 (4)
BioE 305 (4)
EE 233 (5)
CSE 461 (4)

Spring 2007 (16)
BioE 357 (4)
BioE 481 (4)
CSE 451 (4)
CSE 466 (4)

Autumn 2007 (16 12)
BioC 405 (3)
CSE 467 (4)
CSE 451 (4)
EE 331 (5)

Winter 2008 (16)
BioE 482 (4)
EE 332 (5)
BioE 470 (4)
BioE 490 (3)

Spring 2008 (17)
BioE 482 (4)
BioE 455 (4)
BioE 457 (4)
CSE 477 (5)

While walking a Bioengineering classmate Christine home tonight after a night full of solving homework problems, we saw ahead of us some sort of strange tussle between a couple of girls. Since we were on greek row, I wasn’t sure quite what to think — was it some sort of catfight over something trivial? I think I even asked “Is this for real?” Well, it turns out it was for real — right before we got to where the problem was happening, one of the grls threw the purse that she was trying to steal into the bushes and ran off while the other girl, quite distressed, went to retrieve it.

We made sure that the girl was ok and had everything — both purse and person were ok, thankfully — but in hindsight, I sure wish I had gone after the purse-snatcher. Not only would it have made a much better story, but I also would have had the chance to fight some crime for real. Oh well, there is always next time.

A hard drive in oasis, the computer that runs silverfir.net, is whining. In other news, I use 54% of my hard drives:

Filesystem             Size   Used  Avail Use%
/dev/hda2               12G   6.1G   5.2G  54%
/dev/hdb1               31G    16G    14G  54%
/dev/hdc1               99G    50G    44G  54%

Three hard drives for three purposes, three different sizes…. all the same usage… how weird is that?

In what was, by far, the easiest registration session I have ever had, I typed in the four classes I wanted, hit “find schedule,” found the first option to be the best, and hit register. Unlike many experiences before, now that I’m actually a declared Bioengineering and Computer Engineering major, everythign worked right the first time. So, without further ado, let the death march begin :-)