Secants and Tangents

Thursday, March 24, 2005

It’s been a While

Filed under: General — Ryan @ 9:53 pm

Damn it’s been a while since I have written in this thing. There is a reason for that, and it is not entirely related to schoolwork. If I were to unleash my feelings right now, it could possibly cause WWIII, and because of finals I felt that this was not a necessary way to spend my time. I will post again once I take the final step toward resolving this mess.

Yay finals are OVER! So Stats 154 wasn’t bad at all…but I don’t think I did as well as I did on the midterm but oh well. I can’t expect an A+ on every exam haha. Math 135B was a little hairy but I made it through it. I feel like I did very well after spending the past 2.5 weeks studying for that damn class, and attending every office hour I could possibly attend. In the end I think it paid off. And to top it off, it was sunny and windy my favorite weather (just too damned cold). So all in all it was a spectacular ending to a shitty quarter.

A little buzzed right now. My parents took me out to dinner to celebrate Spring Break and I got a few tropical drinks. It’s funny…they are the same drinks I have liked since I was a teenager, but now they are just the alcoholic versions. While buzzed I came up with this quote since it relates really well to my life right now: “If we could all turn back time and correct the mistakes we made, we would never move forward.” Pretty damn good for a drunk math major.

The roommate situation is slowly but steadily worsening. I try not to complain because to be honest, there isn’t really anything for me to complain about compared to him supposedly. I do not like him…actually I strongly dislike him as a person. We haven’t spoken since week 2 of the quarter, and quite frankly I thank the Lord for that one. I was actually hoping he would shut the fuck up after like week 1 of Fall quarter. Last quarter all he did was bitch about everything and I do mean everything. He exudes nothing but negativity. He clearly hates living on campus and I don’t understand why the hell he still lives on campus if he hates it so much. What sucks is that as part of ORL, I like living on campus, so it is like night and day in our room. And when he isn’t bitching, he is speaking all ghetto. There is a simple rule…you just don’t use hella more than once in a sentence unless you are from a trailer park. His typical conversations start with “hey what’s up foo” like he is from the ghetto. And then he will say something like “yeah so I hella gotta do hella studying for this hella class or I will hella fail, foo.” All of this and he has the personality of a dial tone.

He seems to have a problem with everything that I do: the music I listen to, the fact that I like fresh air in the room whereas he prefers to smell shit all day (I’ll get to that). He has a thing about the AC..wait strike that. He has a problem with the heater too, and he hates having the window open. So I find it rather odd that he always has to prop the damn bathroom door open when nobody is using it…the thing is, everything just wafts out into the room. It is so fucking gross. He knows that there is an exhaust fan in the bathroom but I guess that is too logical. If he lived by himself in the room, the room would stink so fucking bad all the time. Next year I am either going to live in a single/studio, or live with friends. I can’t take this random assignment shit anymore.

But I found out the true problem behind all of this and it isn’t a thing that I am doing. It is money. Flat out. After doing a little research, I found that what he claims is a supposed “suburb” is actually a barrio whose schools are rated a 4 out of 10. So “foo” as he would say, has a bit of a chip on his shoulder. But apparently he can’t take the inferiority anymore…

Anyway, back to me. I plan on spending my break programming. I have so many damned ideas I do not know where to start. I hate it when this happens ’cause I am not going to even be able to do just a little work on one before break is over. I will put these things on the My Projects page. I also need to learn Java a class I am taking next quarter.

Classes for Spring quarter. Are you in anything of them with me?
Math 131B - Analysis II (Stefan)
Stats 120B - Regression Analysis II (Hansen)
CS 143 - Database Systems (Sho)
Physics 1B - Irrelevant Shit (Coroniti…who looks like a gecko)