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Ah. Here I am. Typing a journal entry. How... warm and familiar that feels. I've missed this kind machine. I don't know how I lived without you. (Dear reader, please excuse me while my computer and I have a moment). LoL, I'll stop now.

It just finally feels good to have this piece of junk up and running again. Running more smoothly than it has in... EVER. Maybe in part due to the fact that the harddrive is essentially empty (less than 1GB taken up so far, including EVERYTHING - all the programs and that junk). Ah, finally I can do stuff from at home, and don't have to remember little itty bitty things to check in the labs at UW, especially when the goddamn MC building labs are always full. Good luck finding a computer that isn't being used.

Anyhoo... switching subjects just slightly... school. It's a little overwhelming. Just... how much I'm falling behind and how much MORE is coming. This month, these are my Mondays: mid term, holiday on the 13th, mid term, mid term. Then November has one more mid term on the second Monday. Ugh. Stupid school and its work. (Notice the change in attitude from less than a month ago... I said "let's not jinx it" didn't I? And what'd I do? I jinxed it. Well... I just simply couldn't judge my attitude towards school after THREE DAYS of school). Anyhoo. Yeah. I actually LIKE doing the psych and phil work. And the CS is good if things cooperate (that is, this computer isn't down and the ones in the lab aren't all taken). And, the fact that the only courses I actually DISLIKE are my two maths tells me that no, I definitely shouldn't be going off to major in math. So, once I can figure out how to tell my parents "sorry, change of plans, bye bye math" without them going all psycho on me... then I'll sign up for my lovely-planned courses for next term. Ah, how much more pleasing it feels to have 5 arts courses in my schedule than to have CS, 2 maths, 2 arts. I've decided to take PHIL 202, PSYCH 235, SOC 101, and now... depending on some stuff I should go check out... I need to figure out where I am with a few languages according to the course numbers - German, Spanish, Croatian. These are the 3 I have any knowledge of that are offered. If I can take one of the courses offered in the Witer term, then I'll likely take that, plus either ENGL 108F or ENGL 190. Can't pick. If I can't take any of the Winter term language courses, then I'll take both englishes, and take the languages in my second year. So, then, by the end of first year, if I didn't do the language course, in arts I'd have taken 2 english, 2 philosophy, and 2 psychology courses. plus 1 sociology. Liz made mention of soc being boring and "don't ever take that course"... but, hey, out of the options in groub B, I only like psych, and once I take two in psych, I need two more in something else on that list (or one in something else, and another in yet some other thing). So, sociology sounds best to me. It was a debate between soc and anthro. Soc quickly won.

Anyway, yeah... marks-wise so far, I've been...okay. Calculus average (of 2 marks...which in the end will together count for about... 2 whoopin' % of my overall mark): 87.5%. Algebra average (same... 2 assignments... barely count towards anything in the end): 85%. CS: well, this depends.... either a) 50% or b) I'm not sure till they mark my second assignment ***NOTE: LONG RAMBLE ABOUT MY CS MARK OF POSSIBLY 0***(issue here being that due to the fact that I was trying to use this computer in its sorry state to finish my cs assignment last week, and got everything except submitting it cuz it would keep freezing... so i sent it through e-mail to my prof... in the morning get a reply about assignments not being able to be accepted through e-mail... but now we're in the final stages of working things out... it will likely stay as a 0, but maybe just maybe they'll mark it, thanks to the fact that andrew was allowed, a week before me, to submit his assignment through e-mail because he was desparate and had no way of submitting it otherwise (TECHNICALLY, I suppose he could have saved his files elsewhere - or sent them to his own e-mail... so he can access them from home, print them off, and hand them in by thurs. at 8am... just like TECHNICALLY, i could have tried to predict that my computer wouldn't be kind for a night and then could have spent my time trying to PRINT rather than put my code into JBuilder and submit electronically... and then get to school before 8 the next morning to hand it in... but technically didn't happen). anyhoo, they say that if someone else had gotten their assignment marked after submitting by e-mail, i'd have to get the same treatment... and then i got some email from some lady apparently in charge of things, about how they don't accept assignments through e-mail... but i've asked the our cs assistant about whether andrew's situation and mine would be parallel being that it's sort of the same issue - we were both desperate and resorted to the only thing left (minus that little technicality) - e-mail... only his issue was in the first assignment, mine in the second. so unless THAT makes a difference (which i fear it will, just so they don't have to make exceptions), i will get a mark. but as i said, it likely DOES make a difference. although i think it's stupid. if we can make acceptions in week 1, shouldn't we be able to in week 2, too? that one week doesn't suddenly make you THAT much more experienced or anything like that. anyhoo... i'll shut up now and end this bracket).***END OF MY RAMBLE ABOUT MY CS MARK OF POSSIBLY 0*** So, cs, if I get 0, I'll have a 50% avg in the course... if I don't get 0, then right now... I'm sitting at 100%... although iI doubt that my 2nd assignment was also perfect, so that'll likely go down REGARDLESS of the 0/e-mail issue. And finally, phil and psych I have no marks in as of right now. So those are my marks... so I'm doing okay.

Oh, I handed in my commentary for phil. I think I did okay. My estimate: 70-80%, but it depends on how high the expectations are - that could be significantly LOWER or HIGHER... Let's put it this way - it's something that in high school, I'd have expected around 90% for. And the psych test I had today, I think I did fairly well (my estimate around 90%). I really got scared for this one. EVERYONE was saying how hard Dr.Burris' tests are. So I was seriously expecting that it would HAVE to be something I didn't expect that just throws me off and gives me like... a 40. And then I was going through it, being pretty damn certain of most of my answers. Only one or two pure guesses, a few not-so-certain... and all others, I'd say I was 80-100% certain. I love psych. Tis my favourite course. I was studying last night - reading the textbook, since I basically hadn't touched it all course... and while I was reading, it referrenced to some other page, so I looked at it, started reading... after maybe 10 pages, I realised I should be devoting my time to the actual chapters we needed to know and not other stuff in the book... but, it just... grabs my interest. But yes. I ended up only covering the prologue and less than half of chapter one (so, none of chapter 2 or 6). Luckily, this seemed to have cost me nearly nothing... well, one question for sure... when it talked about "as i mentioned early on in the course....bla bla bla... something about what would the textbook label that" or something like that... I obviously had no clue - this was one of the only guess-questions.

Anyway...I'm really tired... I got about 4.5 hours of sleep last night... and now it's almost 2:30 (well, 2:17)... and I'm getting up at 8... and I'm an idiot for staying up this long but... my computer works again!! How could I resist?! Expect more updates soon...

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