Programming

I got 3rd place in the programming competition today... I was mad I didn't get 2nd... We were something like 2 minutes slower then the 2nd place team and that was frustrating... Grad students who win every time won again... so I don't feel bad loosing against them... I had a lot of fun, but the prize I got wasn't the greatest... some Media Plus blah blah for windows... I am going to try and return it to Walmart and see if they'll take it... Anyways, it looks good on my resume... it was sponsored by Microsoft and run by Association for Computer Machinery... yeah... oh well... go me... oh, and my team I guess...

Labels: acm, programming

Another week done, meaning 5 weeks from now I will be done with my Undergraduate... I am pretty scared... I don't know what I am going to end up doing with my life... The offer from Freescale, the company I interviewed with in Texas, sent me an offer and it should be here early next week... I am excited about it in some ways, but not in others... I hate Florida, so it would get me out of here, but unfortunately Texas is Florida with more Republicans and higher humidity... bummer... I am also scared because then I would have nobody... well, I have family there, but I would have no friends... Not the posse, or my friends from my other home (the Computer Science Majors lab)... I am going to ask Barry (Ken's IT guy) if he will match the offer for me to work there the whole summer so that I can spend my last real summer with friends. Moving away is just to much of an abrupt ending... I guess I shouldn't hang onto impossible hopes that one day I will be as happy as I once was... Luckily I have been too busy to be bothered by my feelings... too stressed about getting into gaming school and trying to figure out what exactly I am going to do with my life... Getting accepted to UCF helped my self esteem a little... not that FSU is bad or anything, but rumors have it that the IT department is going to take over it because not enough people want to get into it... The teacher are afraid of changing from what they are use to and won't teach us what we want to know, practical stuff... They tempt me to stay here with the whole 85-90% paid, plus $14,000/year, but I am not going to be bribed to stay somewhere when I really want to do something else (This is how I feel about that job in Texas too, if I have another opportunity, then I will probably pass it up, no matter how excited my family there is)

Anyways, on a different (nerdier) note, I am learning a lot about C and Java that I didn't know which is really exciting, I wish I could have learned it in school, but the teachers don't want to teach it, so I have to learn it myself... but considering I learned 90% of both those languages on my own, what is more going to hurt. Next weekend is the programming contest and my competition (Micah) some guy from the majors lab (Jacob) and I are all on a team... Micah can code in C damn well, and now that I am using it and getting use to it I might actually be more of a help then I thought I would be... Jacob said he is good at figuring things out, he just isn't the best programmer, so he can give us pseudo code and we can make it code... I hope we win so I can get Microsoft Software and also put it on my resume... as long as we get in the top 3 I would... hell, I might go to regionals this year (invited the last two years but turned them down because I wanted to be with Francisca) even though I know we wouldn't win, but at least I can program, which is the only thing I truly live for...

Tonight Micah had a birthday party that I went to, everyone there was a foreign exchange student from every freaking country in the world... it was pretty cool, it brought me back to Munich International School days... Anton was the only other CS person that showed up... Micah was lucky because I was paid 30 bucks by Mike (the other lab monitor) for covering for him for 3 hours... so I gave him $22.50 or something... I had spent some of it already... I hate carrying cash so I thought why the hell not... anyways, I want to throw a graduation party but I am not sure how many people from the department would actually show up to it, most people there I would consider "in school" friends, very few I would tell anything personal to... Only people I would think would hang out with me would be Kelley, Kerstin, Micah, Meat, Anton, and um maybe one or two other people that are always in the lab... If Erica, Christy (but she would never hang out because she is to much in love with her husband), or Tom, were still there they would be on the list too... and of course, I could be wrong about the above too, so yeah... who knows...

I am enjoying the Intelligent Systems face reorganization program that Micah, Kerstin and I are making... that is a lot of fun, it isn't due for another month and we already have all this cool shit that we don't need... yeah... We are going to kick team Bling's butt... mu ha ha ha ha... them and their "awesomeness factor" are going to be blown away... yeah, ok...

OH well, it is almost 2 so I should go to sleep, I left Micah's after 3 hours because I was so tired... but then I got carried away here... oh well, probably won't have anything to update for another month or two in my boring life... well, I guess next week I will get that letter thingy... but yeah... oh well...

Labels: acm, austin texas, diet, francisca amunategui, grad school, kelley jones, mike smith, programming, the posse

Well, I just checked my UCF application status online and it says I have been admitted... yay... pretty cool... this is not for the gaming school, only for the Computer Science department... which is still pretty cool... I see it as the best CS program in Florida, so that is exciting... and they actually PROGRAM there, which is something we sort of lack here at FSU... I am still in Homer, Louisiana... middle of nowhere... he he... I might head to tally tomorrow but I haven't decided yet... maybe I'll wait till Sunday...

Labels: florida state university, gaming, grad school, honey folts, papa folts, programming, tallahassee

I am super excited to go to Orlando this weekend... I have a high expectation that I will have fun... I guess it is kinda easy to have that expectation when you are going to an amusement park... but I am more excited about chilling with my friends... I've only been here a week and already I have that lonely feeling I was so happy to get rid of when I left here... I guess even when I was down there I had that lonely feeling, it was just easier to find something/somebody to distract me from feeling it...

I have read 2/3 of The Da Vinci Code since yesterday... I seriously cannot put the book down... I want to buy Angels and Demons now so I can start reading it as soon as I am done with this one... I actually bought The Da Vinci Code last semester but never had the time to pick it up and read it because of my huge course load... I am excited about my Intro to Intelligent Systems class... it is going to be easy and interesting at the same time... there is a lot of programming which is my passion... We are making a spam filter for the first project... it'll be fun...

I am starting to stress about all the grad school stuff I have to do... I finally have 3 teachers writing me letters of recommendation, but now there is all this crap I have to do for them so that they can start... I started filling out the application for GuildHall, the gaming school in Texas... that is the one place I really hope I make it into... I really don't want to stay here in Florida... Unless maybe I went to UCF and worked for Electronic Arts while studying there...

I was invited to my friends wedding... the only problem is that it is in Montgomery Alabama... I want to go because then I could dress up and look sexy, but I want to bring a date (so to speak) because I won't know anyone there if I do go... I guess it would be a lot to ask somebody who doesn't know the bride like I do to go to a wedding with me... especially in short notice (it is in 2.5 weeks)... oh well, I might ask somebody...

I start my TA job next week... pretty excited about it... (the money anyway) I got paid this last two weeks too and I didn't even work... $200 a week... yippee... that on top of my lab job which I make about $100 a week, and the website that I do for the sociology department which has really really kicked up in the last month or so (i've been working about 5 hours a week which is up from an average of .25 hours a week) I make $12 an hour on that job... I have a lot of free time still though... in a way I am excited about homework so that I can be distracted from boredom...

Labels: electronic arts, grad school, programming, reading, undergrad, wedding, work

The Sims 2 comes out this Thursday or Friday (the website says Friday, but the commercials say Thursday) I will finally have a life... or at least be able to act one out... I am really excited... the graphics are awesome...

I get paid Friday as well... and I already got some of my money I earned when I was down there... It is all going to pay off my debt that I have for buying my laptop, as well as other computer parts for my desktop... doesn't matter though, I have nothing to save it for or use it for... I'm going to get a $60,000 job when I get out and have nothing to spend that money on either...

I keep feeling like I am getting ahead in school, but then they assign a ton more and I am right back where I was, with a ton to do... I am taking the two hardest Computer Science classes right now... Programming Languages and Operating Systems... Programming Languages is a "history of" course... <yawn> we learn all about the many different computer languages and why/how/when they were developed... in Operating Systems, it is more interesting, but much much harder... we have to do low level programming, aka, disk access, file management, etc... (the basics of what Windows does)

I went out tonight with people in my major, but only to work on a hard assignment for programming languages... it was as fun as doing homework can be... The other week Patti came here and I spent 72 hours straight with her... I have been talking to my other best friend on the phone a lot lately... I might even see her this week if I evacuate to Atlanta... Weekends aren't really something to look forward too, I just sleep through them because I have nothing to do... I do all my homework at work... so weekends might as well be weekdays... at least then time goes by quicker...

I am getting to know people's name in my major... it might be useful someday... everyone sees me as the nerd though, because I "always" do good, and I enjoy programming... oh well...

Its frustrating me that Ivan moved further west... I already boarded the whole house, upstairs and down, because I knew I wouldn't have had time later in the week to do it... it better have been for something... hopefully it makes a big turn and heads straight towards me... assuming everyone would stay safe of course...

Oh well, I organized my thoughts now... time to go to bed...

Labels: best friend, electronic arts, hurricane, nerd, patti botero, programming, undergrad

Hello... I had to test today... Computer Organization, or as Francisca calls it the 1010110001110 class... and German, which wasn't to difficult... I am starting to get demotivated for my classes... I had a really hard math test last week that stressed me out... and so after I was done, I decided I didn't care... and this weekend I hardly studied for either of my test... I think I did well enough to get B's on both, but the Comp Org one is kinda borderline... I have a 97% in both classes so far, so even if I didn't do to well I should keep my A's...

I am about to go out to eat with my sister and her friends because they are going to T.G.I. Fridays, and I want their points B) It is my neighbor's birthday party and there will be a lot of people... or in other words... a lot of points...

I am glad today is almost over... it was long... and hard, and boring... tomorrow I am going to be doing a programming (nerdism) assignment that is do Friday... I have to make a calculator, which isn't to hard... so that is exciting... he said he is giving us a break by giving us this assignment opposed to another...

I have one more test next Monday, it is going to be hard, but after that I will only have 2 more test until finals week... one in German, and one in math... hopefully I can make it...

I registered for my classes last week, it was exciting... I have the majority of my classes on only Tuesday and Thursday, and NO CLASS on Fridays! I am excited because that leaves me with extra tito time... OH! and I don't have class until like 1:00 PM on Mondays so I can drive home Monday mornings rather than Sunday afternoon... which is again, more tito time...

I am almost 21 and I just can't wait... it is just the fact that it is a milemarker in my life that is fun to hit... the next mile marker in my life is 40, because I will almost be dead... or over the hill at least... unless you call 25 a mile marker because you can rent cars from any car rental company... but that is the only plus side to 25...

I have a good idea for Tito's birthday present... I have something, but I have other ideas as well that are exciting me... I just hope that once I get it I can keep a secret from her... it would be the first time since I started dating her that I would keep a surprise from her... I get WAY to excited... we'll see...

I wish I had a lot of money right now so I can go buy all the video games that I ever wanted before they stop selling them... that is the only reason I would want money... well, and for a car... but I will get one of those when I graduate hopefully unless they don't keep their word...

Well, I have to go to Fridays now... yummy... thanks for reading this, for those of you who have made it all the way down to here...

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