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Name: Ivan
Country: United States
State: Texas
Birthday: 10/16/1988
Gender: Male
Interests: trying to learn piano, pokemon tcg, tennis, computers, starcraft, maple story (but not really anymore), super smash bros melee/brawl, bleach, trance/instrumental music, asian pop, trying to be the best at everything
Expertise: procrastination, being lazy, being a hater, cussing, and screaming out the F word.
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AIM:  Kuchiki Taicho
Member Since:
1/4/2003
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| i meant to write this like a week ago, but i've been lazy/busy.
i volunteered at rice VSA's annual college leadership workshop 2 saturdays ago. it's basically an event where we tell high school students about how to apply college, give them tips, and answer any questions they might have. although we had 60 something total students, it was alot more personal this year because it was organized into small groups of 10 high school students or so with 2 group leaders. i was a group leader with jun, and we combined groups with julie and matt. our group was awesome and i had a great time.
being around all those overachieving high schoolers makes me think back to my own high school days and how i was just like them. i found myself wanting to tell them not to try to join every club and to try to be an officer of everything, to not worry too much about their SAT score, to stop being a GPA whore. i would obviously be a total hypocrite for doing that. thinking back, being an "overachiever" in high school was so god damn superficial. how many things did i do in high school did i actually cared about? probably tennis. that's about it. NHS? i didn't do shit in it. SNHS? i was VP and we did nothing the entire year. math club? that was one club i actually enjoyed, haha. most of that shit i wasted my time on probably had little effect on my college decisions. julie and i talked about this during CLW. i've always told her that she was one of the few people i knew that didn't fall victim to the whole overachiever facade, and i still admire her for not doing that. we also talked about how much more we appreciate coming from alief now that we're no longer there.
on another note, rice cyber sports has been going pretty well. i haven't found something i was this passionate about in a long time. i wish we could get a little better turnout for our events. that's what kind of sucks about rice being so small. hopefully we can gradually establish ourselves and more people will want to show up! we're planning our first halo/smash tournament for nov 21st. exciteddddddd.
interview with microsoft on friday...
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| how's my life been? school, school, school, with a bit of smash bros melee and marvel vs capcom 2 thrown in there, haha. weather has been pretty nice and cool recently, except when the air gets dry my fingers get even worse than they already are. i haven't been able to play tennis for the past 2 weeks cause my fingers have been cracking and peeling. i dropped comp 412 and my life this semester is pretty much comp 410. i don't feel like i'm taking enough this semester... my other 2 classes, japanese 101 and comp 160 (game programming) are just fun classes. i really hope i can do this in 4 years... i can't afford to stay an extra year.
rice cyber sports is so, so close to become an "official" club. would have been sooner if the SA wasn't retarded. i'm really excited and have lots of plans for the rest of this year. i just hope people are interested enough to take part it in. i haven't found many people who are quite as enthusiastic about gaming (smash in particular) as i am, haha. speaking of which, rice vs UT CSL starcraft exhibition this sunday at 7pm! haha. there will be a stream, so watch!
i got an internship interview with national instruments this coming up tuesday. i'm so ridiculously nervous, haha. this is going to be my first real interview...
my sleep schedule has been horrible. ~5-6 hours of sleep a night is just not enough for me. on the weekends, i end up staying up til 5am and waking up at like 2pm. always screws up my sleeping schedule.
free chick-fil-a is amazing, haha. one more day of free chicken sandwiches next week! free food is amazing when you're off campus, hahaha. off campus life is kind of nice. living in an apartment is a lot different from living on campus. i definitely want to move back on campus next year though. being off campus at rice makes you feel so detached.
yeah my entries have been pretty boring. life has been pretty routine, but i'm not complaining. the weeks go by pretty quickly.
on another note, i was looking at this "all about alief isd" q&a on the alief website and thought this information was kind of interesting. i've always told people alief has no white people, but here's some statistics to finally back that up. this is mah hooooood, hahaha.
Q. What are the current demographics for Alief ISD as compared to the state?
A. | Alief | State | | Native American | 0.2% | 0.4% | | White | 3.6% | 46.5% | | Asian | 12.4% | 4.0% | | African-American | 34.8% | 13.3% | | Hispanic | 49% | 35.8% |
Q. Are there other subgroups?
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Economically-DisadvantagedLimited English Proficiency | | |
| coreofvengeance: apparently
coreofvengeance: i'm not taht good at using man pages
coreofvengeance: am i not manly enough? | | |
| school has been very, very busy already for me. 20 hours of classes plus trying to get our cyber sports club going has left me with almost no free time. i'm going to drop something probably, deciding between comp 410 and comp 412.
comp 160 is fun and relaxing (except when you get a retarded partner who is hell bent on working by himself rather than doing stuff together), comp 326 is not quite as fun but lectures are still pretty interesting, comp 412 is so ridiculously boring. i think i've fallen asleep in 412 every single day so far. japa 101 is pretty fun so far, except i am horrible at memorizing hiragana. i'm having more trouble with hiragana than i had with chinese characters... haha. and the biggest one of them all, comp 410.
for those of you that don't know, comp 410 is a class that simulates a software company. everyone works together on one giant project for the entire semester (there are 8 people total in my class). i've had a huge lack of self confidence ever since i came to rice, and being in comp 410 just magnifies that even more. i've considered dropping it multiple times after feeling that i would be a liability to my group members. i even emailed my professor and asked him when the best time to drop would be so that i could do it at a time where it would be least disruptive to the rest of my group. he pulled me into his office and gave me like a 30 minute motivational speech about how i should have more confidence in myself. it was somewhat cliche, but it was great to know that he actually cared. for now, i've decided i'm going to stick with it. i still feel like i'm, by far, the least skilled programmer out of my group. either way, this class is probably one of the most valuable classes that i could ever take at rice. getting through it would be a huge personal accomplishment for me.
comp 412 is currently very high on my "to drop" list. boring is an understatement. i still have fall semester of senior year to take it....
i really need to catch up on reading. i've pretty much neglected all of my other classes for comp 410 in these first 2 weeks.
and mine and dennis's (i have no idea if that is grammatically correct or not) cyber sports club is coming along pretty great. we had a good amount of interest at the activities fair and we have our first event this saturday, a viewing party for the CSL showmatch exhibition (starcraft) this saturday! we still have some random administrative things we need to get done before we're an official registered club through rice, so right now, we can't reserve rooms or anything, so we reserved a study room in the library, hahaha. i'm really excited for the club this year. there's so much i want to do.
career fair is next week... i'm not prepared at all. i'm stressing out already thinking about internship interviews.
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