Worus

Well, it’s been another couple days and the semester seems to be going alright. It looks like I may be working big time in classes from time to time, but it seems that I should have breathers in between work times, unlike last year. I’m excited to only be taking twelve credits. It will make life so much more managable this fall. Especially when it comes to project time for my C# class.

They installed six Linux machines in Durham. They are, quite honestly, sweet. The machines are fast, sexy, and they actually have good software installed (unlike the machines for the computer science department). While there could be better software installed (say, a GTK 2 version of Gaim), they did a really good job of getting mostly up to date software. People have been walking up and using them and seeming to not have any troubles. No one has made any strange faces at the machines, which is good.

The college adventure continues…

The college adventure started again today. Thus far, I have been greeted by the Evil Michael Skinner twice on campus today. He is enrolled in at least two of my classes this semester. I fear for my sanity. This guy, while extremely intelligent, has a tendency to monopolize professor time and ask questions about things that you’d usually rather not talk to him about. Somehow I will have to learn to see the good side in him, because it looks like I’ll be seeing him a lot this semester.

My professor for theory of computing insists that we do not call him Dr. Lutz, but Jack. That was the first thing that he said to us. He seems really nice and like he is enthusiastic about the material he’s about to teach. A good quote from today’s introductory lecture was that, “teaching is really great profession. I’d highly reccomend it!” The only odd thing was when the room went a bit dark as he discussed cheating. He told us that he hates to talk about cheating. He started his rant; the room went dark; he threatened to ruin anyone’s life he found cheating.

My statistics professor seems really nice too. She should prove to be really good. I take it that Heike is possibly competing for the title of LaTeX Master with Markus Lumpe, who, in turn, will teach my next class.

I’m very excited for my next class. It’s a class about .NET with Markus. Personally, I think that Markus is a really good teacher. I know that Beth could certainly protest this statement, but I felt like I learned from the homeworks in programming languages. It will be neat to have another less abstract course with him this semester.

I’ve seen a lot of people I know today too. The list briefly consists of: Beth, Alan, Bobby, Luke, John, Evil Michael Skinner, Tim, Bess, Jenn, Elizabeth, Omar, Basil’s brother, Zaid, Kevin, J.R., and some physics war buddies. Thankfully, I did not talk to all of them.

The college adventure continues…