it’s been a _long_ time since i last made a posting. what can i say, i guess it’s easier to get swamped with life.
lets kinda cover briefly the things that have happened since.
i am now on my last semester as a full-time student. i have 3 hours to be completed by the end of the summer, and that will be all i need for my degree.
i am currently taking architecture, stats for CS majors, object oriented systems, and an independent study with dr. boppana. i don’t like a single class im currently taking.
the independent study. i signed up to improve the performance of an application written by a bioscience professor at UT Health Services Center of San Antonio. there’s 100k lines of code to this app, and apparently code seperation was a bad idea to him. on top of that, he feels the need to explain to me how matrix multiplication works, or that i need to run his application to benchmark my code (that will later be inserted into his application). it sucks, and i regret not taking something else instead of wasting my last independent study.
object oriented systems is pretty bad. i really don’t feel like going into it, since she (kay robbins) is apparently aware of my homepage (which links to this). all i will say is that better planning is required, and im not a java evangelist. i’m not completely sold on the idea of object oriented design. don’t get me wrong, i think the GoF’s design patterns and most object oriented design ideas are good. i just don’t think java or c# is the answer to the problem. if java is the best the ooCrazies can come up with, then OOP is something that needs to phase itself out. i think the same ideas can be accomplished with proper code seperation, without the need for a fully OO language.
the most important thing that happened since the last post was that crystal and i got engaged! i bought her an exquisite diamond ring (.5c, VVS1, D colorless). i will make another posting about this later, as this is a long story i wanted to share.
i also made the dean’s list last semester with a semester gpa of 3.75 (got the B in tech2). this semester i may or may not make it, as i’ve been fairly unmotivated to perform in any of my courses.
half way into the semester, here’s the grades im lookin at:
object oriented systems: A (likely if i do well on the midterm)
computer architecture: A (borderlined B)
independent study: A (likely)
stats: A (likely if i do well on midterm2)
now this all depends on alot of factors. and since i still have 1 more midterm in both stats and architecture, it’s still hard to say. worse case scenario i get a B in arch and stats, which is still a 3.46. as long as i get at least 1 A i’ll be somewhat satisfied.
according to the university, my overall gpa is now 3.12, and my cs gpa is 3.84. that’s pretty good to me.
i’ve continued copying ford’s cd’s. and i think that hopefully i will be done soon. i am currently preparing for a massive burning session. on thursday i am going to alex’s to burn everything on my hdd that i want onto dvds. i’m then going to borrow as many of ford’s cd’s as possible, and just copy them to the hdd and burn them when i can. so far i’ve collected roughly a 200 and 264 cd binder’s worth of cd’s. when i finish burning his, i’ll move onto someone else and get their entire collection as well.
last semester, i completed my assignment to do a high performance audio extractor library. this summer, i will complete it, so i can rip all of these new cd’s.
one last thing, for christmas i recieved a sony 4x +/- dvd burner, and a GBA from crystal. i’ve fallen madly in love with my GBA and the burner is being sent in for repairs (broken ide pin). i also bought crystal a gamecube. i love nintendo.