filler post

The past week has been a series of awful time management, which is why I can't scoop myself an hour to work on my blogs. Nonetheless, I'll try to summarize the whole week with a short 15 min post.

The classes began on Jan 12, as I may have mentioned earlier. This 17-credit semester consists of 7 courses, of which 3 are physics (including a lab), and the remaining 4 being chemistry, biology, math, and computing.

The great things are: I get to learn cool new physics, math, and a new programming language (i.e. C). The annoying things are: lot's of written homework. I can't stress that enough: written homework. I don't like written homework; I prefer to type things out neatly rather than hand-in a page containing 20% cancellations and pencil-carbon smudges.

Besides the 2 physics and math classes that require written homework, there's a "lightweight" single credit computing class that I stumbled by chance: an opportunity to learn some C, and perhaps gains some real programming skills. I mean this is the first time I get to do anything in C; normally I'd be in a persistent fear of C (or C++, both are pretty scary and nasty) because I'm clueless as to how I can do anything useful in those languages. How do I write a file? How do I draw a line? How the heck to I even construct a window? (I must have been too dependent on GUI-based programming like MS Visual Studio.)

Those are questions that can be hopefully answered, or at least I would know how to answer them. I really need to get into a mood of programming... it's been months since I'd wet my hands with some real programming.

Okay, that's my filler post. I really hope I can do some better time management next week, considering the "dormant" physics lab will begin classes on Tuesday, which implies lab reports and more lab reports.