Miyako (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} gokugirl) wrote,@ 2009-04-18 23:39:00 |
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30 more days...
There are thirty days left until I leave for Atlanta. I'm keeping myself calm by not thinking about it. Humans are very good at denial. I've never had to do anything for myself so I expect to screw up. Repeatedly. Atlanta is many times larger than Flint. Georgia Tech is many times larger than UMF. Even though I've lived in a city all my life, I'm probably a "backwoods hick" to people native to cities like Atlanta. I still haven't bought everything but I need more money first. I'll get paid next Friday and the honors funds will be released to me as soon as I turn in the medical release papers. Unfortunately, I have to actually have a checkup before I can get a signature, which won't happen until the 23rd. I also have to mail in a bunch of signed papers to Georgia Tech before May 1st.
I have to turn in my term paper tomorrow and I also have a math test tomorrow. I still have four pages left to produce for my paper and two days worth of homework to finish for the test. I started the term paper over Spring break back in February but I didn't start my math until Friday even though the first assignment for it was given on March 30th. I also have two programs to finish in Assembly Language but I have until the 28th to turn them in. I have to turn in another draft of my personal statement for my independent study course.
Finals start this week. My first is tomorrow, which isn't an official finals day. The test will be short like the other two tests so it's not a big deal. All of my other finals are next week: two on the 27th (math and software engineering) and one on the 28th (assembly). I have to get a least a B on my software engineering final or I'm going to get a C in the class and then I'll have to take it over next Winter. I bombed the midterm even though I studied for it.
My term paper is about the foreign influences on Japan's pre-modern culture. It's also going to count as an honors election because I'm adding an additional 3 pages to the minimum (which is seven). I've just reached page seven. I have a feeling that I'll have to go into more detail in certain parts to reach the 10th page or I'll have to insert a lot of quotes to justify the use of more footnotes. I'm not going to get anything higher than a B in Pre-Modern Japanese History because I've gotten Bs on all the tests, Bs on all the essays except for one, and an A on a quiz. So, in short, I have two As and the rest are all Bs. I've heard from another student that Dr. Hanashiro rarely gives people As for essays.
I'll probably get an A in assembly. Mr. Galerneau is really generous with grading and his deadlines are soft (which means that you don't get penalized for turning work in late). You would have to work hard to fail one of his courses. I might get an A in Discrete Math, which would be a surprise because I usually suck at math. Discrete math the only one I can find that is directly relevant to computer science, though. The other three I have to take after it (Calc 2, Linear Algebra, Stats and Probability) are excessive. I'll need to struggle for a B in software engineering. In my independent study course, as long as you turn in all the work you get an A. There's no final for it.
I should stop wasting time and continue writing my paper. Or finish assignment #3 of math. It involves "shortest path" algorithms, which are actually kind of interesting. It makes me want to try to code them.
There are thirty days left until I leave for Atlanta. I'm keeping myself calm by not thinking about it. Humans are very good at denial. I've never had to do anything for myself so I expect to screw up. Repeatedly. Atlanta is many times larger than Flint. Georgia Tech is many times larger than UMF. Even though I've lived in a city all my life, I'm probably a "backwoods hick" to people native to cities like Atlanta. I still haven't bought everything but I need more money first. I'll get paid next Friday and the honors funds will be released to me as soon as I turn in the medical release papers. Unfortunately, I have to actually have a checkup before I can get a signature, which won't happen until the 23rd. I also have to mail in a bunch of signed papers to Georgia Tech before May 1st.
I have to turn in my term paper tomorrow and I also have a math test tomorrow. I still have four pages left to produce for my paper and two days worth of homework to finish for the test. I started the term paper over Spring break back in February but I didn't start my math until Friday even though the first assignment for it was given on March 30th. I also have two programs to finish in Assembly Language but I have until the 28th to turn them in. I have to turn in another draft of my personal statement for my independent study course.
Finals start this week. My first is tomorrow, which isn't an official finals day. The test will be short like the other two tests so it's not a big deal. All of my other finals are next week: two on the 27th (math and software engineering) and one on the 28th (assembly). I have to get a least a B on my software engineering final or I'm going to get a C in the class and then I'll have to take it over next Winter. I bombed the midterm even though I studied for it.
My term paper is about the foreign influences on Japan's pre-modern culture. It's also going to count as an honors election because I'm adding an additional 3 pages to the minimum (which is seven). I've just reached page seven. I have a feeling that I'll have to go into more detail in certain parts to reach the 10th page or I'll have to insert a lot of quotes to justify the use of more footnotes. I'm not going to get anything higher than a B in Pre-Modern Japanese History because I've gotten Bs on all the tests, Bs on all the essays except for one, and an A on a quiz. So, in short, I have two As and the rest are all Bs. I've heard from another student that Dr. Hanashiro rarely gives people As for essays.
I'll probably get an A in assembly. Mr. Galerneau is really generous with grading and his deadlines are soft (which means that you don't get penalized for turning work in late). You would have to work hard to fail one of his courses. I might get an A in Discrete Math, which would be a surprise because I usually suck at math. Discrete math the only one I can find that is directly relevant to computer science, though. The other three I have to take after it (Calc 2, Linear Algebra, Stats and Probability) are excessive. I'll need to struggle for a B in software engineering. In my independent study course, as long as you turn in all the work you get an A. There's no final for it.
I should stop wasting time and continue writing my paper. Or finish assignment #3 of math. It involves "shortest path" algorithms, which are actually kind of interesting. It makes me want to try to code them.
