Well, the world is definitely unfair. I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this, but a few weeks ago, I tutored a girl who needed help in calculus. She had been to only two of the classes and the midterm was the next morning. I spent a couple hours laying out the core of the necessary knowledge. I was apparently very successful as she got an 85%. Now that’s all fine and good, except I got back my test and found that I had received a 72% on the same material!! …..complex conjugates…definition of a derivative….

Anyhow, I passed it at least. And now I’ve just finished my Greek midterm. I think I did fairly well on it. But we’ll see, I thought I did fairly well on my calculus midterm.

Also in the news, I went to a Campus Crusade for Christ meeting on Wednesday. I rather enjoyed it.

I also found out that I have another midterm next Wednesday. Now that I finished the last of my first midterms, I have the first of my second midterms. I expect this will continue for another few weeks, so I should stay pretty busy.

I miss you all

Lucas

Well, I haven’t posted in ages, but I’ve been pretty busy. Midterms for 18 units of classes will do that. Plus last weekend with Ben’s wedding and this most recent weekend at home. All and all, I’ve had very little time. Worst of all, I haven’t played any kind of video game in the last 2 weeks, at all.

To everyone I saw over the weekend at home, I had a great time. Life has been a blur lately and the break was nice. Even with all the insanity of one midterm after the other I’m sure I’ll be able to pull through.

I rode a wave board today, its like a skate board with only two wheels, on pivots and you torque the board back and forth to move it forward. The thing was pretty cool. A bad youtube video of the thing in action can be found here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=ywEEFgFXVXI&mode=related&search=

I’ll try to post more regularly.

Lucas

Greeting again,

I finally have some academic news, I got my first quiz back from Greek today. The grade was 87%. I also have midterms coming up. EECS 10 tests this Friday, chemistry tests on Monday and I think the calculus midterm is next Friday. I’m not particularly worried about any of those, but we’ll see how well founded that is in a week or two.

I have also purchased a laptop. Aaron needed a Mac for work and was selling what he had. My new laptop is a Fujitsu with a Pentium M 1.73 GHz, a mobile ATI X300, 1.25 gigs of ram and a 60 gig hard drive. He gave me an amazing deal at $600.

Unless I get a lot more readers than I think I do, and even probably then, I miss all of you.

Thanks for reading.

Lucas

Well, once again my writings have been sparse this week; my apologies once again.

I’m still having a good time here though. My cold is almost completely gone, my classes are much the same and I went skate boarding today. My new EECS homework came out tonight, so I’ll probably be giving that a try tonight as well.

I also just found out that as a student here I get free legal music downloads. And from what I’ve heard on the other people computers around here the quality is pretty good.

I talked to a guy today from my chem. class. He’s a third year student who is VERY excited about biology, especial stem cell applications. I had lunch with him today, and finally talked about science and tech wonders with someone here. Maybe we’ll do some neuro-sci stuff together at some point but in the mean time we can study chemistry.

I also wanted to thank Mrs. Shechet for a can of chili lime seasoning she gave me. I had an apple covered with it today.

Lastly congratulations to Jessica for catching up on her homework.

Lucas

Hello everyone,

I’m afraid I must apologize for my lack of posts recently. Its been a very busy week and I’ve begun to receive homework in my classes. Not to mention the many distractions that float around here. I have however been keeping up with my homework and getting decent amounts of sleep and even doing social things (amazing I know) so there’s just been a lot going on.

I’ve progressed in Greek to the beginning of the grammatical section of the class. This has been nothing short of frightening. Before grammar, we had 30 people in the class, at last count, we’re down to 25. Its tough, but I’m keeping up and I always leave the lecture with a good understanding of what we read in the textbook.

EECS 10 has been quite the opposite. Because I have used a command prompt interface before the UNIX environment has been very easy to pick up and because I’ve been encouraged to take up programming several times already, I already know what’s going on in the easy assignments that we’ve been given so far.

/*if you don’t care about the technical side of programming don’t bother reading this paragraph, but for those interested, the programming environment is either pico, vi, or emacs for UNIX. So far I’ve only used pico which is basically only notepad for UNIX. The compiler is built into the UNIX command prompt and is a simple gcc command (“GNU C compiler” I think). It seems functional enough though and the learning curve is practically nonexistent.*/

The EECS lab today was quite an ego boost. Primarily because there were not enough computers and I had already done the homework. I simply walked around and helped people who were really lost, much as the teaching assistant was doing.

Both chem. and calculus have been moving very slow conceptually, so there is little to talk about for them.

In other news I attended the RPG club meeting on Monday night. In attendance was a variable cornucopia of geeks in all their kinds. The general atmosphere was very laid back though and I had fun so I’ll probability be back next week.

Also of a nonscholastic nature, I went to the ARC this evening and lifted weights, stretched, did isometrics and ran back to the dorm. I went with four other guys and had a great time. Hopefully I won’t turn into a blob of jelly while I’m here.

Once again, im sorry I haven’t posted for the last few days. As you can see by the timestamp, I kind of have to make time for it. Thanks for all your comments and emails. I’ll try to post more regularly.

Lucas

Hello everyone, I just got back from church. Collin (my cousin, for readers who don’t know) picked my up this morning and I attended the service and had lunch at the Stubblefield’s with all the cousins and their various wives and girlfriends. The service was excellent. Although the music seemed subdued after what I heard while attending foothills, the message was well prepared and well spoken.

I finished my Greek and calc homework last night and now I’m off to do some EECS and Chem. related activates.

Be sure to let me know how you’re doing in the comments, or even drop me an email from time to time. Its nice to hear from all you who read this.

Off to do my homework,

Lucas

I’m between classes right now and so far things are looking great. EECS intro looks like it will be the easiest with an introduction to programming in C and familiarization with the UNIX environment (that means the Linux environment too). Chemistry looks like it won’t be much more difficult then the honors stuff that Wichersham already threw at us in 11 grade. Greek is another story; I’m expecting it to be the most difficult of my classes this quarter. I am, however, quite exited by it. The instructor is passionate about Greek and has been teaching it for 20 and studying it for 30 year. It’s also a class that I’m taking largely because I want to, so that makes it more interesting as well. Or perhaps I want to take it BECAUSE its more interesting.

In other news, we had our first dorm network Counter Strike game yesterday and I watched the matrix in the common room with a bunch of people from my dorm.

I’m very glad classes have started now. I was starting to get lonely here with nothing to do all the time.

I’ll try and post regularly, but I’ve got to be off to calculus in not to long here and I want to look over the stuff from Greek before then so that’s it for now.

Lucas

P.S. since I see from all the comments that Capoeira is less well known than I had though. This video shows some Capoeira being performed. http://youtube.com/watch?v=LwbuDYcrUOo