Just passing the time.

So work is abound and assigned and the first week of actual work is done. I have a paper due next week as the major assignment of the week, but things don't seem daunting. I mean, older students just say "Get used to it", so that's basically what I'm doing. Getting used to it. What else can you do? Cry? Whine? Not really. In my opinion, at least. It's college. You're responsible for yourself for the most part, with the occasional nagging from the parent. That's all good.

As for class itself, discrete math is considered a circus because our teacher answers the questions for us after writing the questions on the board and then pausing for a second before continuing. Can't really learn if don't let the students figure it out for themselves. Writing seminar is starting to be more of a history lesson about terrorism than a writing class. My first real assignment is due next Thursday, so i actually write in that class. The programming project was a real pain the butt. Can't use the fricken' date class so i had to sparse the date string in an array and just cycle everything. Took me forever to write that. I hope Prof. Neimi doesn't make me do something like that agin.

Freshman Seminar with Professor has been fun, listening to his visions of grandeur, stories and what not. One thing he wishes to do is have the xodus LAN and gaming festival take up the whole floor of the arena at RIT. Not hard to do, since we have all the equipment on campus. The challenge is to get the club running xodus to pull it off and to get gamers to really get into action instead of sitting on their buts and do nothing but play games. That's more of a challenge, I'd say. On Thursday, he talked about specific dates. A couple of days before the Halo 3 launch, Microsoft is coming here to give out a few advance copies of Halo 3. Next week Thursday is game day to celebrate the game design program's start. Free Schwag for us. On the 28th, microsoft is coming again to give us the XNA talk, which is basically a talk about the game development system on visual C# so that we can develop games for xbox live arcade. More free stuff like vista, office, and halo, among other things. October 4-7 is the Brick City homecoming. Phelps was wondering, "Why have homecoming is there really isn't any homecoming football game?" Another idea he had was to buy football gear, get some people together put them on the field and play madden on xbox's. Against another school. Doing the same thing. He also wants the feed of the game broadcasted through the ritz sports channel with commentary and everything. Talk about ambitious. We'll see whats gonna happen in the coming weeks.
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So yeah that's academics. I'm probably gonna talk about that every week, if it's a lot of very little. Who knows. Socially, the friend circle is growing. Slowly, yet surely. We've been gaming a lot. And I mean A LOT. It's one of the things to do. I even bought a 360 from someone on my floor. Now it's just a matter before Halo 3 comes out. Breaker's club has been fun, and workin the six-step is just like starting all over again to develop a strong base. Plus it's good being active. Speaking of active, I've been swimming. Like a lot. 4 times a week for an hour. It's been making me feel great getting in the water and just pushing it.

Then there's the frat downstairs. Me and johnny basically are gonna be on the verge of joining soon. Story is that I beat they're guy that was good at Marvel vs. Capcom 2. He wasn't that good. He'd be NYC chump change. So basically the frat boys screamed out loud. "YOU BEAT HIM?! YOU BEAT HIM! POUND IT." So I'm this small legend that beat their dude. "The guy that beat rizo." Johnny is just known by association because he just so happened to be there. Overall, they're pretty chill. Damn, then there's pi delta psi. The asian only frat. Ho' crap is bronx science all over again. No doubt. Asian's stick together in packs. Always did. Always will. You got some of the token ones that venture out, but that's about it. I wasn't really a member of the asian community, since all they really do is stick together and not get out of that shell. Can't do that. Never did. Probably never will. Didn't feel like I fit in with acs anyway. We'll, good luck to kevin joining pdp. He might have fun.


Next post is gonna be about Halo 3. No doubt. It's coming out in less than 2 weeks, and since I got a 360, it's pre-order time. I'll post about the various LAN and launch parties and how school is gonna be empty.