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