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I haven’t been posting consistently for the past couple of months despite all that has been happening. It’s not that I’m hiding information because I would like to update the friends who I haven’t had the chance to talk to recently via LD but my years of blogging and monitoring a former coworkers blog has […]

Another week of work has started and with no holidays until Memorial Day, I’m pretty much stuck in a rut/grind until the summer. Hopefully I’ll receive good news from some grad schools soon to break me out of it.

Grades for the spring semester came out earlier this week and graduation is now official. The only grade that I was surprised with was the C that Bourner gave me in 416L. I had known about this grade since he posted it on blackboard but I kept hoping that he would find some sanity while […]

I’m working on the last part of the project for VLSI 2 and basicly it involes me doing a binary search with timing values until I can get the DFFNSR to have a setup/hold time violation of 10%. It wouldn’t be that bad if each simulation didn’t take 5 minutes each. At least I have […]

12 days, 1 project, 1 project demo, and 1 final until graduation.

21 days, 2 projects, a paper, and a final exam until graduation.

A lot of crazy stuff has been happening this week so I’ll just give a quick summary before I go to bed. Monday I went to see Kill Bill 2 and it’s totally badass so everyone should go see it. Tuesday I had to go do the Fedex distribution center to get my stuff from […]

We saw Teri today for the first time since shes back from Germany and she seemed really happy about the project. She had pictures and stuff from Germany but didn’t show us yet becuase we had another Fine Arts teacher that Zary has assigned Sonic World 1 to work with. I really wonder how this […]

MONEY, DRINK_DRINK_DRINK!!!!1111
In response to the VLSI DFF timing reports not being due tomorrow.

I was supposed to have exam 3 in my Ancient Greeks class today but I showed up to class only to find that there was no one there. 15 minutes later and I was still the only person sitting in the room so I just got up and left. After talking to Ian I found […]

I’ve been meaning to do a real update for a while now but I haven’t had a chance to until now. Let’s see what happened this week, on Tuesday Jessie and I went to DuClaw and to see Dawn of the Dead. The beer was good but the movie was just your typical horror flick […]

Spring Break is a week away but I have a shitload of stuff to get done before it starts. 2 job interviews and a midterm tomrrow plus a project to complete for 491H before I can start celebrating spring break.

Sometimes I really wonder why I bother studying for tests. I can not study, not do the reading and sleep through class and get an 89 on the test or I can study, do the reading, and sleep through class and get an 89.
Search Phrase of the Day: “ninjas gone wild”

The weather has been absolutely awesome this weekend but it’s a shame that I have to stay in to do school work. I really need to start reading for my Ancient Greeks class ahead of time so that I won’t have to read several weeks worth of material in a weekend. I sent out another […]

Today was a historic day in terms of the UMBC Capstone Lab course. Instead of crowding a bunch of computer engineers into a class room to learn leadership and group work, we actually had to demonstrate them on an obstacle course. Well there were two different types of obstacle courses, one that was really easy […]

One of the beauties of upper level free form classes is that they’re mainly composed of group work. The downside of group work is that the professors don’t always let you pick your own groups so you’re stuck with a bunch of random people that you know and trust. Since there are only 6 people […]

We got to make some badass kites in 416L today. There’s nothing like some quality group work and kite building. Unfortunately the weather didn’t want to corporate but I’m positive at least one of my groups 3 kites would have flew.

I went to UMBC today to sell back my political science book from last semester only to find out that the bastards won’t buy it. After being denied on getting some of my money back from the bookstore, I went to the cashiers office to pay the $100 graduation fee, aka dildo removal fee. Of […]

Well I’m sitting here sipping some cherry wheat as the Mexican walks into my room with Charlie Brown Christmas book. I’ve seen the movie a few hundred times but didn’t even know that the book existed. Today was unfortunately a full day of classes and I’ve been to all the classes I plan on taking […]

Today was the last first day of the semester left for me as an undergrad. Being the last day of this chapter of my life of course it had to be a rollercoaster day. I woke up this morning at around 5 and checked the UMBC website which said that school was cancelled. Of course […]

I got my grades today and Yesha managed to ruin my 4.0 semester. So I got A’s in all my hard classes but the easiest class of the semester I got a B. Go figure, stupid stupid stupid shit.

Let’s just start this update out with saying that sometimes I should not be allowed to touch computers. On Saturday I managed to break both my main desktop, Thor, and my laptop. So instead of studying for finals and working on the 415 project I spent most of the time fixing the two of them. […]

Someone, I’m not sure who so we’ll call him Pretty Woman, the Indian version, decided to prop the door to ITE 375 overnight. The lab is only supposed to be open to computer engineers, meaning that by propping the door open, the stupid fuck jeopardized the only lab that is dedicated for VLSI students. So […]

Chintan just gave us the best news ever today. The VLSI final has been CANCELLED and the project due date has been pushed back from the 8th to the 17th. I guess he actually wants everyone to finish the project and study some for our other classes instead of spending over 10 hours a day […]

So I’ve been trying to do work the entire time I’ve been home but with the exception of a couple pages of notes and a couple lines of code, I haven’t accomplished much. There’s about 1.5 weeks of classes and 2.5 weeks before the end of finals. In that short span of time I have […]

I registered for the last time as a undergrad eariler today. Good old UMBC won’t let me register for Digital Systems even though I have permission to do it so I’ll have to go and bitch about that tomorrow. Kinda weird how I’m going to be taking 15 credits, 12 of which are Comp E […]

Part 1 of the VLSI project is now done and part 2 is about 75% finished. It’s a shame I can’t find the bug that’s in my graphics project otherwise it would be a good end of the week with a relaxing weekend.
I went to the registrar’s office today to pickup my pre-graduation review sheet […]

There’s way too much of it. With the first part of the VLSI project and the graphics project due on Friday, I won’t be getting much sleep until I get both those bitches out the way. There hasn’t been a day since project 3 for graphics came out where I haven’t wished I dropped it. […]

When the teacher gives you permission to use code off the web, you should just copy and paste it and turn it in right? Too bad I’ve been sitting here for the past 2 hours working on this stupid IEEE single percision point adder and have been unable to get it to work. At least […]

Matrix Revolutions comes out tomorrow and I�m going to the first showing at Muvico! Instead of waking up much too early and getting to school, I’ll be among some of the first people to see what most of us suspect, that Neo is gay, Trinity is a man, and Agent Smith is Neos father. I […]

Graphics is way too much work. Stupid project 3 even after I took the free late I might not be able to finish. Though it kind of is my fault because I thought the movement would be easy to implement but right now I touch the mouse and the damn camera does a werid rotation/translation/teleportation […]

When it rains, it pours. But I have a nice umbrella in the form of beer and X-box. Nothing like a hour of Crimson Skies to take off the frustrations of dealing with stupid comp e professors. Cadence is still having problems so this is basicly a free week from 413 and 415 until Friday […]

I was informed today that my resume checked out ok and I’ll have an interview with Lockheed next week. Hopefully it’ll work out for a post-graduation job. Beyond that I actually finished this weeks VLSI lab on a TUESDAY and and PLD homework is almost done. I have a midterm for 451 tomorrow but I’m […]

The Cadence server is down again for the 5th time since Saturday. So here I am sitting around in ITE 375 waiting for them to come back up so I can test the programs that are due Thursday and Friday.

Well I got most of the VLSI lab done today and I only have to find some error that’s in my last schematic before I’m finished. Class was great today as Chintan ranted for about 45 minutes about the stupidity of the dumber people in class and about the Comp Sci’s. Highlights of the rant […]

2 days and 2 comp e exams that I think I aced, hopefully. I think it’s time for some well deserved R&R tonight. R&R and some Michelob.

Today was another typical Tuesday with 415 and the stupid kids who like to ask dumb questions. The question of the day had to have been what is a decoder? Instead of drawing the circuit and explaining how one works like Padmanaban, I like Samsons response better, go back to 312. It’s one thing to […]

I’m sitting around waiting for the next hurricane to come and we’ve got quite a few letters to go before we reach Roberta. I’ve “heard” she’s one crazy bitch who can tear some shit up. But I got my first grade of the semester back today and it was a 100, too bad it was […]

The four day weekend is coming to a end. I’ll miss Isabel and her contribution to my video game time. But I actually spent the majority of today working on the graphics project. It was painful at first getting used to writing C++ and the new g++ compiler that they installed on GL but after […]

VLSI has officially taken over my life. For the past two days I’ve been getting on campus crazy early so that I can spend time in the lab designing layouts and making the layouts smaller. The one thing I never thought would be required for a cmpe is now something I can’t do without, the […]

So I’m sitting down at my computer about to do the reading for Public Admin when I pop open a Magic Hat #9 and get the message:
“Tonight can be Thrilling if you’re Willing”
Yeah right, me and the 4 websites I’m supposed to read.

I completely finished the first VLSI lab and I’m pretty sure I won’t touch the graphics project anymore so I’m done with all the work that’s due until next week. It sucks that submit hasn’t been implemented yet so I can’t really turn in my graphics project but I’ll send an email to Rheingans to […]

Yesterday was the first day of classes and it sucked big time. We got out of Computer Graphics a little bit early and Chintin didn’t even bother showing up to VLSI but fucking Yesha decided to hold us for the entire class. At least there’s wireless in the ITE building, or there seems to be […]

I went to the bookstore today expecting to be able to lookup the ISBN numbers for the textbooks I’ll need next semester but the bastards didn’t have any of them on the shelves yet. Besides that I had a really productive day including waking up early to jog and doing some grocery shopping at Sams. […]