thedeadparrot

So, robots has become one of my least favorite classes, mostly because we need to work in the robots lab, which is tiny and soul destroying, especially if you spend 6-7 hour stretches of time there.

Still, it's sort of nifty to work on something that's a lot different from the programming I've done before, which is usually more about number crunching and getting the right values back. Still, here, have a blurry screenshot of our robot in action:


Our main project for this semester is to get our robot to play soccer, which is both easier and trickier than you might think.



Also! I am taking an intro astronomy course for fun, and as a lab, we took several images of M82 using a high power telescope and a CCD camera. We took long exposures using different filters (red, blue, and green) and then recombined them into a final image. It was mostly computer stuff, so overall, it was very easy. Anyway, this was our final picture, and it is pretty:
( not particularly big, but I thought I'd spare you anyway )
Astronomy in general has been really interesting. Man, the universe is so freaking big and fascinating and amazing. Black holes! Supernovae! The Milky Way! These things are so huge they defy our understanding. It's so crazy.

*cue Math-exam related panicking,because I don't feel as comfortable with the material as I was last time*

*more panicking*

OMGiwhiehkdnfdnfksdkeioilsaksmd.

Ack.

Some people have put up "WANTED: Christopher Columbus for [doing lots of shitty things that i can't remember at the moment]" posters around my dorm, and I'm guessing, the campus.

Yay for liberal hippie schools (who still give us today off from classes anyway).



Dear cost function,

Are you superadditive? (check one)

[ ] yes
[ ] no

-me

I hate Econ 113 so much, omg. I'm taking the class pass/fail, and I'm still worried about it.

First major exam tomorrow. It's Math, which shouldn't be too bad, I just haven't studied at all for it. Also, I still have Math homework to do, so I should really be making my way through my English. Like, now. Of course, its a linguistics essay, and yeah. I can't wait until the weekend. A Clockwork Orange is playing at the Avon, that should be pretty cool.

On a completely different note, I think I'll be cross-posting fic here as well as parrotfic, except at parrotfic, you don't have to listen to me whine about how much Consumer Theory sucks. (No, it really does! The Cobb-Douglas utility function is one of the ugliest things I have ever seen.) I might post smaller bits and pieces of fic there that I won't post here. Maybe. I'm still not quite sure how I'll be using it.


On a somewhat related note, I posted my New Year's Resolutions fic:

Title: Not Gay
Fandom: The Office (UK)
Pairing: Tim/Gareth
Summary: Gareth Keenan is not gay.
Notes: For Halrloprillalar, who wanted "drunken awful regrettable slash". I did my best.

Not Gay

My Classes:

Computer Science - My favorite. I love it so much. I love coding. I love that we're on our third week and we've already done recursion. The teacher rocks, the material rocks, the TAs rock. It's all good.

Econ - Blows. I don't know what's going on half the time. Have met someone that's almost as lost as I am, so that should help.

English - Good class, janky teacher. There's just something really abrasive about her that I don't like. And vaguely contradictory, like she's trying to be nice, but it's not working.

Math - Laid back and somewhat slow, which after Econ is actually a great relief.

Another four classes today, ack. Luckily, they were only of the 50 minute sort today. I still need to make a decision about classes. OMG.

The top review here owns my soul. I mean, who the fuck reads author's notes?

Haven't been able to write much lately. I'll try to get some I Might Be Wrong done. It's really close to being finished, and that makes me happy. Only like two more chapters left. I think.

I need to get more sleep. Or wake up later. Or something.

Have I mentioned that I really, really, really love Brown? Like really? 'Cause I do.

Classes start today. OMG.

I have a new laptop for college. Yay.

I need to go install The Sims KotoR Firefox onto it.

ETA: I also got my course selection stuffm, and I'm now freaking out because I have no idea what I want to take. And I think I'm going to take lots of rather boring "required" classes instead of the interesting one. We shall see.