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Some Notes on the First Day of a New Semester

  • Hour-long breaks pepper my schedule again. Luckily, the midafternoon ones on MWF take me past a library where I might get some homework done.
  • In addition to his day job as an IT manager, my father teaches operating systems and advanced Visual Basic programming at IUPUI. I'm using the same operating systems book that he used last year. I know who I'm talking to if I need help.
  • Speaking of textbooks, I bought all of mine online. I double-checked ISBNs and ordered early so that a few were waiting for me when I arrived on Saturday. It has been far less painful than last semester's textbook epic.
  • I went to the Corec today for the first time in at least two months. Vacation and last semester's irregular lifting schedule has taken its toll. I'm weak... so very weak. I lost about 25% just on dumbell bench. Terrible. I hope to gain it back by summer. I should have more time to lift this semester. My CS classes— operating systems and numerical methods— should be far less time-intensive than compilers was.
  • I had given up on doing undergraduate research this semester. I started looking for a sponsor too late and got distracted when the projects hit. I still had two possible sponsors despite that. One worked in an area I had little interest in and the other never got back to me... until today. Tomorrow I have a meeting with him and a classmate whom I may be working with. More news as events warrant.

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