I’m Done!
What a shit ass year.
I haven’t written in a while because, well, I have had so much catching up to do in my classes. It paid off in one class, didn’t pay off in another, but I really don’t care because I am just glad this year is over.
My Analysis final went great. I have never been so happy to receive a solid B in a class ever. Our professor was this really nice Russian guy that I will be having again for Complex Analysis this summer. I saw him in Westwood once as I was walking home from my nightly Starbucks run. He was carrying a 12 pack of beer. It was pretty funny because I could tell he was a little surprised to see a student. I don’t like Analysis, but I must admit I learned a lot from his class. Our TA was really funny too. He would make these weird motions whenever he wanted to emphasize something. And he had some good one liners:
Me: “What is the difference between 17 and 37?”
TA: “20, I’d say.”
Some Girl: “Instead of rewriting sine and cosine over and over again, can I just write sin/cos?”
TA: “In that case I would really just write cotangent.”
Physics did not go that well. I hate physics. It is useless for my particular major. I could care less about it. I think electromagnetics is a very interesting subject, and I will even say that I think electricity is a beautiful concept. But not when my GPA counts on it. I will be thrilled to get a C in that class. The best part is that it doesn’t count for shit since all that matters now is my math GPA.
Moving out of the dorms was bittersweet. Sunset Village was a nice place and had a good atmosphere, but at the same time, I was surrounded by Freshmen and Sophomores that don’t know what I am going through. All of their damned Mickey Mouse classes gives them so much time to party and distract everybody else that is NOT in Mickey Mouse classes, I am glad I won’t be living on campus next year. Also, I am so sick of the dependence of on-campus housing on residential life. This whole “let’s be best friends!” thing is just plain fake, and “celebrating diversity” is a total joke. What diversity? Celebrating the different parts of Asia we are all from? While the rest of us are just in a mix that nobody cares about. But I wish them the best, since this is all they have going for them.
With that said, I will be on Landfair this summer in a 2 bedroom 4 person apartment. I am looking forward to the new experience. I guess I am just going to look at it as an experience to make friends. The good thing is that I get parking. Next year is still somewhat up in the air, but I know that I will be living on Glenrock, I just don’t know where on Glenrock, or what room type I get. I currently have a 2-person studio, again, something I did not request. I am hoping to get into a 3-bedroom 3-person so I can get my own room. I am excited about moving off campus, but I am also pretty nervous. If I just loosen up and try harder to accept people for who they are and not take things so personally, perhaps I will have a much easier time.
For the time being, I have left my job as a grader for the math department. Right now I need a job that requires interaction with people, not professors, TAs and disgruntled students. I swear, if I receive one more irate email from a student about why I am such a picky grader, I swear… I thought I ended the quarter well though. I basically just recommended that anybody above the median get an A, and anybody below the median gets something else for their homework grade which is only like 10% anyway. I start my new job with UCLA Recreation on the 27th. The people seem so cool, and my boss is really chill. I think think this is a good environment for me.
Today after my Physics final I finally declared my graduation date, since I will be entering my last year at UCLA. Now I am waiting for my thank you card from the College, and my gift certificate to the UCLA Store, since this is such a fucking big deal to them that I get outta here as soon as possible.
I have a nice three days off, then it is back to Westwood for a weeklong summer program for prospective Statistics doctoral applicants. That should be pretty cool. I am really looking forward to seeing how I can apply Statistiscs to Computer Science. If I can do that, then I will dump Computer Science, and stick with Statistics. As much as I like Computer Science, I am not sure I want to spend ALL DAY and night programming. I am also hoping I can do research with my regression analysis professor in sensor networks. We’ll see!