Friday, February 03, 2006

01.03.06. update

So I haven't posted in a LONG TIME. I also have no time to make this site all nice like I promised earlier. (Sorry to all of my adoring fans..)

So update time:

1) School has started and I have the worst set of professors this semester. Here is a rundown of each one (I didn't name them):

CIV E 303 - PROJECT MANAGEMENT

- monotone
- turns the lights down low so it's like he's inviting you to fall asleep in his class
- asks, "Are there any questions?" and waits for 5 minutes in silence b/c no one has a question... he does this every 10 minutes
- class material is boring so I suppose it's not all his fault

CIV E 315 - TRANSPORTATION

- thinks very highly of himself (too highly in my opinion)
- his way of doing examples consists of him telling us to read the question from the handout and then doing the problem ourselves in class.. then, he asks the class what we got.. the one person that did the problem in class yells out and the prof says, "oh.. well I got this: ____" And then he writes his answer on the board and circles it... and that's it.. good example prof..
- accent is strong and he pronounces a lot of things wrong, thus making it hard to understand the material.. especially since he makes so many mistakes and doesn't like admitting to making mistakes
- he has a strange patch of hair on his forehead that sometimes waves back and forth due to the air conditioning in the room.. it's very distracting
- i hate this class more than anything in the world

CIV E 321 - ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING & RISK
- too passive: every class beings with "Excuse me.. it is now 5 past.. please say your last sentence now..."
- good at doing examples in class
- seems nice.. but not very responsive in person: i asked him a question about an assignment once and he didn't really verbally acknowledge that he understood what i was talking about.. he gave me a very vague non-helpful response like, "oh.. well.. sure.. does it matter?" I obviously don't know if it matters if I'm asking you.. you are the prof.. I am the student.. YOU help ME!!

CIV E 330 - FLUID MECHANICS
- mentions death at least 5 times in each lecture
- has a very strange undulating tone when he talks... his tone goes up and down and up and down and up and down and etc...
- does not actually teach.. he just rambles on about concepts and writes random things down on the board.. did not cover anything in class that would have helped on the assignments.. grrrrr

CIV E 372 - STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS
- accent makes it a little hard to understand him
- probably the best prof I have this semester
- kinda random at times, but mostly stays on topic
- first assignment was LUDICROUS... not doable at all..
- in class examples are pretty good..
- does things FAST in class

CIV E 381 - SOIL MECHANICS
- only prof I have this semester that does not have an accent
- kinda does things too fast
- his substitute for classes he cannot make is this huge jerk of a prof..
- tries to be funny
- good notes

2) I've started doing more activities throughout the week. On Tuesdays I do wall climbing intramurals (next week is the last week though). On Wednesdays I play squash with some CivE guys and sometimes badminton after. On Wednesday evenings I play women's volleyball which will be over soon. Co-rec volleyball will start soon and that will occur on Tuesday evenings. Every second Friday I play badminton with CivE people and every other week I play something with the HUB crew. Unfortunately, we can no longer play volleyball on Friday afternoons b/c the gym we used will now be used by dance classes. Badminton maybe?

3) I want to build some arm muscle. Right now, my right forearm is larger than my left AND it's larger than my right BICEP. That's just not right. So yea.. I must fix that. I also think that my improved arm strength will help me with number 4 below:

4) I want to get better at squash, badminton, volleyball and.. pool. So pool isn't as important to me as the other three, but I think it would be cool. Five-pin bowling would be cool too, but I probably don't have time to dedicate to that.

5) Got a palm pilot. Got the hard case from that guy. So awkward all the time. Stupid guy haha.

6) The ESS finally made RED ENGG PAPER. I was estactic to pick up two pads today and sold one to Will who wanted a pad. He was pleased. (hifive)

7) I am sleep deprived. I suck at completing assignments apparently. I do them myself though b/c I don't know that many people in CivE. How lonely... haha.. I am meeting people and stuff though so that's good. I'm trying to get into the "homework buddy" mode with people with some success.

8) I finally had keylime ice cream at marble slab. They NEVER have it. I wish it was sorbet :P but it was still yummy. mmmm

9) (This is pretty much a note to myself in code.) bleep bap borp ah ha.. bleep bap borp pd pd pd eno eerht sunim tnorf sdrawkcab deb etis means...

10) It's Round 1 time for co-op. I have two interviews so far. I hope I get the steel job but I doubt it. It's pretty iffy. The other one is w/ ISL. It's a junior engineer position. That might not be too bad but I'd prefer the first job.

Ok, I'm so tired and worn out.

Damages:
Left knee --> One large bruise and one small bruise underneath. Squash. Off balance smash. Misdirected follow through. A small bounce on knee.
Right knee --> One bruise. Wall climbing. Speed climb event. Rammed knee right into large hole in wall. Proceeded to cringe in pain.
Right arm --> Two scratches that pierced first layer of skin. Wall climbing. Harnesses were newly labeled with plastic tags. I scraped arm skin along plastic things multiple times. Looks like the word for "in." Swelled up for a bit, but now just looks scratchy and scabby.
Body --> Too much activity, not enough sleep. So tired.. so.. sleeepy.. i jsuta ned soema s. slepep.zo zleepy.z z... z.z..z..zzzzz...

Posted by norwegian girl at 9:58 p.m.