Monday time

It's Monday! I had a pretty good day. I don't have much to blog about today. I have Homework in all my classes. My friends are playing League of Legends right now in my dorm room but I have to finish some Nuclear Engineering homework I have to do. We're learning about plotting data in a program called Matlab. I made a three dimensional spiral thing required for my homework assignment.

It was pretty easy after I finally figured it out.
My blog entry is going to be pretty short today because I don't have a lot of stuff to talk about.

Overall life's good. This quarter is going to be over soon for me. Next week is dead week, then we have finals and SPRING BREAK! There's something to look forward to! :)

Misfits

Misfits is a British sci-fi/comedy/drama television show that focuses on a group of young adults doing community service for everything from buying/selling illegal drugs to stealing candy from a vending machine. A mysterious storm hits which grants people interesting powers. The writers are simply brilliant. Everyone that I've told about this show in my real life so far that has watched it told me how much they enjoyed it. My friends, neighbors, hell even my own father. I watch the show on Hulu, but I'm sure you can also find it other places if you look. Enjoy!

Homework vs video games

In the one corner we have the nightmare of college students. The boring, tedious, and otherwise uninteresting work that has to be completed outside of class -- HOMEWORK! In the other corner we have the exciting and fun distraction called VIDEO GAMES. This will truly be a match worth seeing tonight, folks.
Oh, what's this? The video games has already won the match! He has subdued the homework, and is now the clear victor of this fight!

The story above would probably have been my weekend if I had chosen to take part in a campus wide LAN party. I would have had tons of fun, but I also wouldn't have gotten any homework done this weekend. Hopefully I won't later regret this choice.

Recently my nuclear engineering professor gave us a homework assignment. Many of the problems come from the book, which I don't have. Since my professor had offered a pdf file of the photocopied homework questions from the book for a previous homework assignment, I inquired if he would do this again. His response was, "No, it's your guy's responsibility to get the textbook on your own." I stated that I had been trying to buy the book from the book store, but they had ran out at the start of the term, and I had placed a special order which they never sent out and must of lost. "Well then you'll have to share with someone else that has the book, you have friends in this class."

I asked a few people who either didn't have the book them self or couldn't help me. Finally I sent out a message to all nuclear engineering freshman explaining my situation. I got an email that was from my the department head sending a reply to my message to my professor, saying "I got this message from one of your students, could you help him out?"

The very next email in my inbox was from my professor, attached was the homework assignments from the book photocopied into a pdf file. I found it kind of funny that my teacher had changed his mind, probably because I got his superior involved. My professor is just a grad student himself working on doctorate's degree.

So now I can finally do all of my homework! Hooray!

I checked out the LAN party. It would of been A LOT of fun. Everywhere I looked was just rows and rows of computers running Dota 2, Starcraft 2, Tribes Ascend, League of Legends, Team Fortress 2, Minecraft and other great games.

My Friday and a Minecraft update

It's Friday! I have a lot of homework for this weekend but I'm still excited for it to be the end of the week. I just finished eating a delicious Reuben pastrami sandwich from a local sandwich shop with a dark chocolate chip cookie and a soda... Mmmm

I've played some Tribes: Ascend today which was really fun. If I am in a game with noobs I purposely try not to target the noobs and go for the harder kills / more experienced players that are more of a match for me, because I don't want the newbies to get discouraged from playing Tribes.

I've also played more Minecraft. My underwater fortress is going to take a looooong time to complete. I measured the dimensions today. It is 20 cubes deep into the water, with a total length of 64 and a width of 42. All together 20*64*42=53,760 blocks to fill it all in. I have to fill it in so that the water will go away. It's going to take a while, but hopefully I'll finish it sometime. Currently I am about 1/4 done.

It is really cool to have built something so big that it appears on the map as a grey box.

Also here is a silly picture where I found a place that had rain stop. The game only puts rain into one part of the map at a time, so here I am on the edge. I thought it was funny.

 

Happy Friday everybody! :D
Here's my dinner, another pizza we made!

Fun in the snow

It snowed tonight. After finishing a Dota 2 game with Ursa I joined my friends outside. We walked over to another dorm hall where there was a crowd of people gathering outside in the snow. We each took turns trying to throw snowballs into dorm room windows of kids who were egging us on, telling us to hit them, let them catch it, etc. A few cars came by which were of course nailed with snow balls.
Finally a police officer drove by, but when he spoke to us he was very polite and told us that it was okay to have fun, but we shouldn't throw snowballs at windows in case we caused any damages. My friends and I left around that time.

On the walk back to our dorm hall a campus security vehicle drove by slowly, one of the windows rolled down, and a snowball came flying in our direction. The car drove off to quickly, and we chased it fruitlessly. I thought it was great that the campus security had joined in the fun of throwing snowballs.

I didn't bring my phone for any pictures, but it was way to dark anyway.
It was a great adventure to end my day, now it's time for sleep because I am one of the people with an 8 am class tomorrow!

My lack of staples

Just got back the first homework assignment we had to do for my nuclear engineering class. It was a resubmitted copy because due to communication errors the majority of the class did not follow guidelines that are imposed for all homework assignments, resulting in most people receiving scores of 20/100. After resubmitting my homework I got a much nicer score of 93.5/100, and seeing this in the top left corner made me laugh. I would of used a staple but my stapler was empty. :P Thought a paper clip would do but I guess not! Not like I really care though, it's only half a point and now I have more staples!

My day's been going pretty well. Every once in a while I think everyone can take comfort in apathy. Take a look at all of the things stressing you right now. Stop and tell yourself that you'll get through it. Tell yourself that it's probably not a huge deal on the whole grand scheme of things. That's what I do sometimes and it definitely helps me feel better. Once I realize that I don't need to be worrying about things, I can just relax and I feel like everything goes much smoother.

Here's a song by Glitch Mob, a band that's I've been listening to a lot recently, especially while I fly around in Tribes Ascend. Enjoy, and have a nice day. :)
Thanks for reading my blog. I'll try to post Minecraft stuff soon!

P.S. I drew this while listening to this song lol. 

Gotta love power naps!

I love taking quick naps when I feel sluggish and tired. It really recharges some of my energy. It especially works on days like today when I have 8 am class. :)

My day went pretty well. I just got back from the grocery store, I bought a lot of food which is always exciting for the poor college student who normally lives off a Top Ramen diet. I don't have a lot of homework tonight so I'm probably going to play some video games which will be exciting! :)

Right now I'm about to go to dinner, so it looks like it's going to be a short blog today. Check back tomorrow and hopefully I'll have an update on my Minecraft project, we'll see. :P Until tomorrow!