Alright so thank God my first week for school has ended. The past entries which was typed from last week stated that I WAS excited about school. Well now I’m not so happy about it. This has probably been the longest week ever. Its not the fact that I can no longer sleep in. It’s just that the people that I hang out with in school is in other courses therefore when group project comes, I dont have partners. I would have to ask other strangers if I could be in their group. I shouldnt complain about that but it’s tough when people that they hang out with are automatically their partners. These people are strangers to me, I would have to play nice and get on their soft side so they agree to work with me. It really sucks. I hate school now. I shouldnt be complaining this early since I have months to go but I needed to vent this out. Then also the classes I’m taking sucks big time. The subjects dont interest me (we have to take them.. no choice). I only have 1 good prof unlike 2nd year. The one with the good prof, the material is not exactly easy to understand either. Books, I have to buy one book (which is ok) but I wanted to use my friends book. The prof changed books so I cant even do that anymore. Then my liberal, even though the prof is supposedly really good, the material is really dry. Plus we have to write a 10-page essays and a presentation. I hate essays. I could barely write 5 pages! And I also despise presentations since I dont like to speak in public.

One good thing did come out this week though. I finally bought myself a laptop. It’s one of those fancy HP that has a twisty monitor. It’s only 12″ so it’s really tiny and cute. It has a built-in webcam and microphone. I still need to install linux on it for school and I’m having a hard time doing that. I can either install it in the same hard drive as my windows (partition is a scary thought in case I screw up) but I heard that there’s a possibility that the Vista bootloader will fail. I dont want another burden already! :x Or I can remote desktop to my own linux box at home. Or use a virtual machine to install the O/S. :slant: So those 3 are my choices. Right now I am rooting for choice #3.

Then another thing that just came to my lap is this new part-time job as php/mysql developer for my university. I start next week and by then I hope I’ll have some kind of idea on what the application that the university is about. So I’m a busy beaver as it is. This is what I wanted during my 1 year hiatus a year ago from school, the busy-ness. But I did not want this feeling of uncertainty with classes and what not. i have to stop being so miserable and just get it over with.. Another thing that really got to me today was when I was talking to a classmate and she mentioned that she is taking Robotics. She said that theres no midterm & final in the class and its only pure evaluation. I asked her if its a mostly older students there. Then she said ‘What do you mean? We are the older students.’ It really shocked because I completely forgot that she’s right. We ARE the older students now. 3 years ago, I was so scared as a newbie and as a new student in university. Now there’s no one to be scared at. It’s like we’re almost there. Well not me since I have 2 years left but yeah. It’s crazy. Before when I went to a lab and saw an unfamiliar face, I automatically assumed that they were 3rd/4th yr students. Now I cant even do that anymore. I can now assume that when I saw an unfamilar face that it’s either a 1st/2nd year student. :sowhat: Crazy.

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