Hello again!

Well as the year gets off to a roll I am here typing away at my computer organizing my life and taking some time to blog.

So far second term has started with a whole lot of shuffling around courses. Originally I planned to do the dual degree program in Art (Cogs) and Engineering, but it turns out I could actually just transfer into second year Engineering if I fulfill various other credits…. so I went back and forth and back and forth between advising offices like a crazy person getting everything sorted out and taadaa, finally it looks like things will be ok although I will have to take linear algebra (Math 221) during the summer. Which is too bad, I went to one class and the prof, Dr. Pfeiffer was awesome, the material was interesting , but getting into that course when you are not an APSC student is difficult.

Anyways I am not entirely sure how I feel about my course schedule yet, it looks pretty intense! But I like the courses! I am taking Math 101, Physics 108/109, Physics 170, APSC 160, CPSC 121… ohh and then there is CHEM 123. Which totals to 21 credits this term….eek! The good thing is that everything is kind of related (we are even doing physical chemistry in Chem!!!) and even better thing is that my profs this term are all absolutely amazing!!! My timetable is gross, 9:00-5:00 on Wednesdays without a proper lunch break -my back is already hurting from sitting down so much- and labs e.t.c Tuesday and Thurs.  And then the problem sets and lab preps and readings are literally going to pile up faster than anything. *The one thing I dislike about the online testing tool things are that the teachers can pile a huge amount of work on you… and not have to actually mark it. Sooo, that will be fun!!!

However I am actually I am super enthusiastic about this term and so far I have been finishing every day with a happy face =D. Both of my morning lecturers are extremely passionate about their subjects which I love. Physics 108 is super interesting and we go at a really exciting pace! Math is just like magic, which I like <3 and the other Physics I have covered a lot of in Physics 107 so hopefully I will do well in that course. Later on, in CPSC 121 the prof really makes us think (or really makes me think- sometimes I feel like I am bad at all this logic stuff). I love the class and the people so much that I don’t want to drop it. I do not need it for my degree… but it is so interesting! Then comes Chemistry which I usually hate, but Chris Addison is great, and very funny too! Finally I have APSC 160 which I transferred into today.  I was pretty lost, I don’t know any of the syntax for C…I am quite certain that I got every clicker question wrong! Oh well, hopefully once I learn the syntax most of the actual programming will come quite easily.

That’s it for me, I won’t deny that I am kind of going crazy with all these numbers and all this new information being bounced off and around my head, but it is a good kind of crazy. And well… if it makes me happy, that is a good thing right?

** also SLC is on Saturday, be there or be square =) ***