So I was having another discussion with Kevin about how much I hate CMU, and he brought up the idea of transferring if I'm so unhappy here, which I haven't really seriously considered since my freshman year/early sophomore year, because I assumed it was one of those first-semester freshman things, either you get out early or you're screwed. He told me that junior year transfers are actually pretty common and it's actually a good time to do them because usually programs hit their enrollment peek around the freshman/sophomore years, and most likely a lot of my credits would transfer over. The first idea he suggested was transferring to Pitt, which actually sounds kind of cool to me. I mean their engineering program decent and I have a chance of actually doing well in it, like how I had a high GPA in high school, and I'd probably be surrounded by people I actually get along with. Of course there are probably other colleges like this, where I'd definitely be happier, but that's the first idea that popped into my head.

I'm also hesitant about this because there really aren't many engineering courses I need to take to graduate. I mean I could just suck it up and get through the program, feeling average/inadequate upon graduation, or transfer, stay a bit longer, and have some sense of self-worth upon graduation.

Well I planned on going to Pegasus sometime in late December/January to celebrate the fact that my stalker [who goes there every weekend] will no longer be in Pittsburgh (if my calculations are correct. Culinary Institute program is 16 months and this is from August, so he SHOULD be out of here)...

But Pegasus closes on Dec. 6th. Which kind of sucks because I thought that place was pretty cool before I became lame and old. But also that means I have about a 2/15 chance (yes, I did the math) of going before it closes.

Then again, I might just go anyways.

But apparently I'm turning 21 in 4 months, so in the event that I stop being lame, I have places to go to.

Although on that note, I've been trying to brainstorm reasons why I'd look forward to being 21. So far I have GETTING CRUNK WOOO being able to eat at Hemingway's or being able to get into F&F early then place your order as soon as half-price starts.

Oh boy, I need to typeset this theory assignment for 211. Looks like I'll have to learn LaTeX I found this nifty program called OO.org Math editor.

Well I've returned to facebook, but my profile is extremely limited, it's more or less a stub for people to contact me if they don't have my contact information. Since my home page news feed can't be deleted, I decided to "hide" everyone. The reason behind this is simple; I log onto facebook maybe once or twice a day to check messages with my friends back home, I don't need to read about trivial details about the lives of people I don't really care about (actually out of my 200+ friends on f-book, there are probably like 5-6 I talk to on a semi-regular basis outside of facebook). I have better things to read about, and I don't need any more ways to compare myself to other people. I've also deleted my wall and statuses, and I figure people can find better ways to contact me if they really need to. Twitter is different, most of the profiles I follow now are actually news organizations of some kind. I hear that stuff is kind of useful.

Apparently this Puschel guy wanted to do Autolab in Signals and Systems with MATLAB, which is kinda cool but almost overkill considering the course is mostly math. Anyways, I implemented FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) and got to the class status page, and this made me laugh:



(I photoshopped the red text btw).

Also I deleted my LJ momentarily but decided to come back I guess. No more facebook though.

 Yeah, I had to update Wikipedia to reflect this change, hahaha:

And this is one of the first things I saw (for those of you who don't know what AIJ is, it's a DDR/ITG-related forum):



o rly?

Bleh, I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to do with myself this summer. I just had my first day of work, it seems alright, better than my old job in a lot of ways, but very different. Other than that, I'm trying to get used to my new, unfamiliar summer life. Working full-time in Pittsburgh is completely different than the usual academia. I'm not going to say worse, because both situations have their perks (not just money). School is a big blend of work and play, both on a daily level and a weekly level. I didn't have much of a rigid schedule either, and I don't put much thought into what I do with my time, as most of it is wasted finding little ways to procrastinate between chunks of code and HW problems and whatnot. During the summer, there are big time blocks of work and big time blocks of free time, it takes me a while to figure out what to do with it, and I live for the weekends to catch up on sleep. That and I'm on a 9-5 schedule, and this is a lot more rigid than my work schedule last summer. Oh well, there's always an adjustment period, just like there will be one when I move back to Webster and start school in the fall. I really need to find new hobbies. I'm still glad that I have the summer for a fresh start, and that the fallout from the spring semester is behind me.

Way too many people use FML. FML

This is what happens when you walk into Newell-Simon Hall at 5 in the morn'

So I had a cup of coffee when I got a bit tired last night around 3 am, because I had work I needed to finish. I expected to stay up all night, but it actually knocked me out like a bottle of nyquil. I believe I slept through my alarm too (which is rare). I've noticed that caffeine has this kind of effect on me half of the time. The other half, it wakes me up, which is why I've been drinking coffee every morning since 7th grade.

I checked out my score for p2 in 15-462, which I completely bombed (GLSL is gayyy and won't run on my laptop, so I tried to work on it at the last minute when everyone was at the cluster), and I honestly didn't expect a score higher than a 40.

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Name: Owen Jarrett (otj)
Score: 051/100

[Texture Loading]
-1
You don't need to use glEnable/glDisable(GL_TEXTURE_2D) on every draw call.
There's no need to ever turn textures off so frequently.  You should just be
enabling textures once in initialize.

[Shaders]
-45
No attempt at shaders.

[Style/Misc]
-3
Please submit a p2.txt next time with details about what your submission does
(even if it fufills all requirements).

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Maybe I won't fail this course after all.

PS. I'm still hungover from all the orange juice I drank last night. Puked 5 times this morning and couldn't even go to class :-P

I haven't posted in a while, anyways:

- I need to find two roommates somehow (by pullins tomorrow too), they can be completely random for all I care, as long as they're somewhat clean, not loud, and don't get boozed up everyday and throw parties at my apartment, which might be the case if I'm thrown in with random people from room draw. I'll even let the first person chose his roommates so I can pull both of them in. If I can't find anyone, I might just withdraw my housing reservation and find somewhere random to live when the time comes.

I'm wondering if I should even bother showing up at the EOC. I have a 2.6, but I could always just... not mention it. Either way, companies will know I'm either a dumbass or a slacker (or someone who just had a bad freshman year :-P)

On the bright side, computer graphics is going well so far. I should have like a 100% on the first project, because it was easy as hell. 240 will probably be the class that kicks my ass like 213 was last semester. I somehow have almost a 100% in Probability because the grading system is so lenient, yet I'm sure the fact that I have no idea what's going on will bite me in the ass later. And Cog Psych will require additional pylons. It's one of those classes where you can go literally weeks completely forgetting about it, like Physics II for me. It would still be nice if I could get an A in the class by cramming bracket raping before every exam.

Ugh, I've missed a couple psych lectures already (well, the slides are on blackboard, but still...), and two graphics lectures so far. But I've come to the conclusion that I do better just learning the material on my own, because I have an extremely short [20 minute] attention span in class (ie. I'm sitting in 240 right now and lost my focus at the beginning, and we're still ending early). I'll still try to these classes at least half of the time, and not let it get to the point it got to last semester where I didn't really leave my apartment towards the end.

I haven't played ITG at all this semester and my stamina is horrible, so I'm thinking whenever I go to the machine (hopefully everyday while I can), I'll do the following until it doesn't suck. Then I'll work on reading charts I hardly ever play when stamina isn't that much of an issue. Also, since stamina is my only concern for now, I threw in some non-ITG charts.

- Warm up: Riders Unite, Tribal Style, My Favorite Game
- 2nd round: Fleadh Uncut, Spin Chicken, repeat one
- 3rd round: Remember December, Hand of Time, repeat one

Then all of the following are fair game: Open Your Mind (tournament), I Can Walk on Water, Charlene, Xuxa, Kahu, Feels Just Like That Night, Hyper Hyper, Utopia... CRAZY LOOP ^_^

... Let them Move (jk)

And anything else I can think of

Okay, I'm done, I have a flight tomorrow.

Fuck Brooklyn...

s/Brooklyn/upstate New York/

I swear, I got sick after 5 days here, woke up this morning and swear I was having an asthma attack, and can't even pass Charlene because I couldn't breathe all day, ugh.

Maybe I should just wait until I get back to Pittsburgh so I can pass songs without getting an asthma attack/dying or something.

- Pass Vertex Beta Dokudenpa Ub3r Rave Summer Delirium.
- Don't fail the semester on the last arrow.

More to come