2010-09-29

Halfway through the first whole week. Friday of last week I had Math 20C (calculus) and CSE 20. The math teacher has what I am guessing is an Australian accent. At first I was not impressed. I don't like when teachers start talking about themselves or get all excited about something mildly interesting that happens in math and then make a dumb joke out of it. But by now I've had 3 classes with him and he's actually pretty cool; I was just being too judgmental. He wears badass mismatched socks. We are learning about vectors and it is still pretty easy. Then there is CSE 20 which is part of the computer science curriculum but it is not a programming class but a math class designed to prepare me for advanced mathematical/logical programing. We're studying propositional logic and it's really cool! Although we go a little slowly sometimes. It will get though soon though - that's the word on the street. So there is discussion on top of lectures and I went to my first discussion yesterday at 18:00. The teacher aide went to the wrong building leaving it up to me to teach for the first 25 minutes. I attempted to answer people's questions but I wasn't very good at explaining things. There was an old guy in the room and when I started teaching he left as if to avoid the insult of a novice student ---i don't know how to finish this sentence. Anyways. I got sick two or three days ago, but I've still been able to run every day Strides commenced and the sickness did not adversely affect my performance. I just slept between classes and now I'm basically over it. Though I have less time to explore campus and hang out now that I have homework, I am still enjoying life!! I have a CSE 20 discussion at 13-13:50, Strides at 16:15, and CHEM6A discussion from 18-18:50. I have plans to go to dinner with the almighty Carrie McFarland (from my building Meteor) at 19:00, who must be at tennis by 20:00. She is tough and always down to exercise, rendering her awesome. I played racquetball with her once. Random side note of the day is that I enjoy introducing myself to people in CSE 20 and to other CS majors because I am a punk freshman and when people ask what computer science classes I've taken I just say this one (cse20), because I have HS credit for CSE 11 and I petitioned out of 12. Everyone else is a sophomore or transfer student. ;). Did I mention I've already done my own laundry? Well I have. Washed my socks on white but they have blue lining and now the socks are blue and white but that's pretty much it and they're just socks. I also made Trader Joe's mac and cheese with my suitemate's microwave and my friend's roomate's spoon...hah. It was 22:00 and the dining halls close at 20. There is going to be less and less to say with time as the days approach routine.