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[walfas]

April 27, 2011 - 6554 steps

Physics at 10am, what did we learn today, uhh... well my homework wasn't collected

Hour break at 11am, went to library

Comp Arch at noon, except really 1pm because etc. Went over more about what the final project will be, programming the PAL for the ALU involves writing a program to write the logic, and also writing an assembler for the instructions, that generates a binary file to be put on the ROM for prog mem. At first I was like "aw man" but now I am kinda like "yeah awesome" because I like writing programs that parse formatted text. I don't know why.

Hour break at 3pm, ate lunch, looked up some sorting algorithms, and found this article which I thought was kinda funny. (" It uses true quantum randomness to randomly permute the list. The list is then inspected, and if it is not in order, the universe is destroyed.")

Signals review at 4pm, went over several problems from the 2009 exam, half of which we have not learned yet. It involves SSS and WSS whatnot things etc stuff

HSS at 6pm, we got bagels with cream cheese, yeahh. Then people presented their papers and at the end we got our papers back except not mine and one other person who also handed it in on time because she is not done grading them yet

walked home at about 8:45pm, 6554 steps

[walfas]

April 20, 2011 - 6868 steps

Physics at 10am, homework was collected, learned more stuff about energies and potentials (specifically, sketching wave functions given potentials and energies) and tunneling of particles

Hour break at 11am, went to EE lab, put some stuff together for comp arch

Comp arch at noon, except more like 1:15pm (aside from the fact that the class is supposed to be at noon, we were told it was going to be at 1pm today, and he arrives 15 mins later than that of course). Went over some of the assignment and how to use an o-scope. Also ceramic resonators and how to wire up the P16F877.

Rant: We were then given an absurd assignment to design a 4-bit processor using a PAL (which we have learned nothing about), some memory chips (which we have also not learned how to use) with a PIC involved somehow, written up in extremely vague language ("You will have to figure it out on your own" is a thing that was said) and assigned to us on the spot (as always) in a huge indecipherable mess on the whiteboard. With a schematic due by Sunday. I'm sorry but this class is just ridiculous. Sure, it's nice going 90% of the semester without any real work to do and having the first hour of every three-hour class being free time while he's late, but we don't really learn what we're supposed to learn, and get this crazy final project without even a printout telling us what is expected from it. But anyway.

Two hour break at 3pm, ate some food, printed out HSS essay and annotated bibliography, then worked on Signals stuff in MATLAB in the computer center.

MATLAB seminar at 5pm, learned about simulink

HSS at 6pm, presentations on peoples' papers, and discussion about our visit to the Empire State Building two weeks ago. Ended up going 15 minutes late (until 9:15). Also I cannot speak for more than two minutes at a time without completely messing up and having no idea what I am saying, but that is another story.

Walked home at 9:15pm, 6868 steps.

[walfas]

April 13, 2011 - 7228 steps

Registration at 9am, Game Theory was full so I had to pick another humanities elective on the spot, ended up picking World Religions because it fit my schedule. I'm planning on dropping it if I can get a language course next semester though. Went to library after, wrote more stuff down on my sheet for the solid state exam

Physics at 10am, some wave equation stuff and then probability density functions and Hamiltonians and all that sort of stuff

Hour break at 11am, went to library, same stuff as before

Comp Arch at noon (I found out that the abbreviation is not "comp arc" but "comp arch" where the h is silent like in architecture, which is what it stands for). Professor actually arrived early today, and by "early" I mean 35 minutes late rather than 45 minutes late. Some people weren't there due to registration and whatnot. Anyway, learned a few more assembly commands, and how to do loops and stuff, then he gave us an assignment

Two hour break at 3pm, went to McDonald's, then to the library again. MATLAB seminar was canceled so it was actually a three-hour break. Did some more solid state stuff

HSS4 at 6pm, a brief thing about our papers, and then individual discussions. Somehow I got an A- on my prospectus, which is weird because it wasn't even the required 5 pages (it was like 4.3 pages perhaps) and based on the email she sent out awhile ago, it seemed like everyone else seemed to be getting lower grades on it. Oh well, that's good for me. I typically put little effort into HSS courses and somehow get A's, so I guess this is one of the few things about college that I can compare to high school.

Walked home at about 7:20 rather than 9pm. 7228 steps taken

[walfas]

March 30, 2011 - 6960 steps

Physics at 10am, quantum mechanics, specifically blackbody radiation and photoelectric effect

Hour break at 11am, went to library, studied for exam tomorrow

Comp arc at noon, except it was 12:45 because he always comes in late. During the actual class we learned more stuff about data storage on the thing, what the different registers do, etc

Two hour break at 3pm, went to library, more study

MATLAB seminar at 5pm, went over state variables, partial fractions (residue and residuez), deconv

Got let out at 5:30pm, and HSS4 didn't start until 6:30pm today so went to library

HSS4 at 6:30pm, went over editing (checking for verb tense, passive voice, etc) and then a debate about whether or not all travelers are tourists

[walfas]

March 9, 2011 - 6461 steps

physics at 10am, Minkowski diagrams with lots of drills and doing things in the present that affect the past by going faster than the speed of light, except not because it is not possible in a causal universe

hour break at 11am, went to library, did solid state stuff

comp arc at noon, except really it started at 1:20pm as usual. The class spent the time browsing f yeah nouns on the projector. In the actual class we looked at some WinCUPL stuff

two hour break at 3pm, went to library, more solid state stuff

matlab seminar at 5pm, learned cell arrays and stuff

HSS4 at 6pm, discussed MacCannel reading (or however it's spelled), the beach chapter of Lofgren, and then some primary documents related to our topic

Walked home at 9pm, 6461 steps

[walfas]

February 23, 2011 - 7289 steps

Physics at 10am, more about that Michelson experiment thing, the speed of light is constant for all observers

Went to library at 11am, did solid state homework

Comp arc at noon, people went over their projects, there was some discussion about memory, whatever

Two hour break at 3pm, did DSA homework

MATLAB seminar at 5pm, learned about syms

HSS4 at 6pm, the professor brought in her son for whatever reason, and he was being impatient and distracting. Then everyone discussed their research topic and then there was some browsing of old German guidebooks.

Walked home at about 9:10pm, 7289 steps taken. Have a physics exam tomorrow morning that I am not very prepared for.

[walfas]

February 2, 2011 - 6904 steps

do I really feel like doing these posts anymore, not really

So I will just post the important things. There was a lot of ice on the ground and it was slippery and hard to walk on.

In physics, a lot of people didn't show up so the professor decided to drill people (not in a physical sense, that would be dangerous) during lecture. Oh yeah also we learned why the sky is blue

Did HSS homework, had comp arc, learned about various digital-logic-related things

two hour break

matlab seminar, hss until 9pm

went home, 6904 steps

[walfas]

January 26, 2011 - ??? steps

Can't find my pokewalker right now so I dunno how many steps

PH214 (physics) at 10am, waves created by E-fields of moving charges and whatnot

One hour break at 11am; went to library to do physics problems

At noon, went to classroom for computer architecture, turned out it was canceled, went upstairs and ate lunch, then walked home.

At home, did physics problems. I still don't get #5.

ECE110 (matlab seminar) at 5pm, learned various different things

HSS4 at 6pm, had a thing in the library about various online research resources, then back to the classroom for a discussion on modernism and modernity and stuff. Then discussed the readings, all the way until 9pm.

Walked home.