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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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| break has been pretty chill so far, although my sleeping schedule has been more fucked up than its ever been, sleeping at 7am and waking up at 3pm. i've only gotten half of my grades so far, A in comp 160 and A in japa 101, my 2 easy classes. i have my 2 hard classes left so pretty sure my GPA is going to drop.
poker has been my current obsession/hobby. my results have been kind of up and down so far. just gonna keep playing and see how it goes.
been playing marvel vs capcom 2 on and off this whole semester, and also been getting back into street fighter 4 lately. probably won't be able to play smash at all this break, sadly, since there's nobody around to play with. my dream in life is still to be a famous gamer, hahaha. if only i had more time.
my hands are STILL peeling like crazy and have been all semester. i bought a racketball glove so that i could play tennis. i can play with it for a little bit, but my hands will still get dry and peel after awhile. this sucks so much. i'm probably going to go see the doctor again when i get back to school. it's really been limiting everything i can do. when it's really bad, it's painful to do anything. i miss playing tennis so much.
we actually have a 4 week break this year. yeaaaaaaaaah. but then we don't get out ridiculously early during spring semester anymore.
still haven't got any internships lined up for summer. need to send my resume to like 100 companies this break. i fucked up a phone interview with nvidia pretty badly cause i'm a retard. starting to get discouraged... | | |
| our COMP 410 presentation was today, which turned out to be absolutely awesome.
we pulled a near all nighter last night. yesterday, i got to school around 2pm, we moved into mcmurtry auditorium to start rehearsing around 4pm. half of us (including me) didn't leave until 6am. i got home and still had some work to do, so i didn't sleep til 8am. had to get up at 11am to get ready and be back in mcmurtry by 1pm to rehearse. right before our presentation started at 4pm, we started getting all these random crashes in our program. at that point, we were really nervous going into it because we didn't know what would end up happening.
the only hitch in our presentation was one of the retarded projectors going out (we had 3 in total). we managed to work around it and all our demos and stuff went amazingly smooth. i'll definitely post up a video of it once i get my hands on it.
i'm not sure if anyone in my group will actually read this, but it has been an absolute pleasure working with them (and i really mean that). this was the most awesome group i have ever been a part of. i really wish i could work with them on more projects. i'm so proud of the way out presentation and project turned out.
COMP 410 was quite an epic journey indeed. it was more than a class for me. like i mentioned before, i was on the verge of dropping it before my professor convinced me to stay. i'm so glad i made it through. i've not only grown a lot as a programmer, but also as a person, as cliche as that sounds.
i only have 1 take home final (elec 326) standing between me and winter break. i don't know if i should just chill for the next few days or get it out of the way. i'm so fucking tired right now though, but at the same time, feeling damn good about how everything turned out today. it's an odd feeling.
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| | CHIN | 202 | ELEMENTARY CHINESE II | 4.000 | | COMP | 421 | OPERATING SYSTEMS AND CONCURRENT PROGRAMMING | 4.000 | | COMP | 429 | INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER NETWORKS | 4.000 | | COMP | 481 | AUTOMATA, FORMAL LANGUAGES, AND COMPUTABILITY | 3.000 | | HANS | 175 | INTRODUCTION TO COMPETITIVE REAL TIME STRATEGY GAMES | 1.000 | | LING | 200 | INTRODUCTION TO THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF LANGUAGE | 3.000 |
registered for spring '10! and yes, HANS 175 is a starcraft class being taught by my friend jared, hahaha. COMP 481 is the last comp sci theory class i need and its scaring the hell out of me. i might end up dropping it and taking it senior year.
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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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