Classes

Well, I've been to all my classes except for one lab so here is my take so far

STAT 4714
This is Statistics an d Probability for EE's
Pretty much seems like exactly what the name is. Looks like it'll be fairly easy. Taught by a Chinese Professor.

ECE 3106
Electromagnetic Fields II
This is the second half of a class I took last semester. Going to be playing with electric and magnetic fields that vary with time. Heavily math and physics based; Not going to be a cake walk but not crazy hard either. Very interesting stuff. Taught by the Australian I had for the first half of the class. A lot of friends from the first one are back as well. Could be my favorite this time around

ECE 3004
AC Circuit Analysis
Just what the name says, dealing with Circuits driving by AC signals. Looks like I've already covered a good bit of this material in other classes, this one is just going to go back and fill in holes. Taught by the same guy I had for DC Circuit Analysis. A good number of friends in this one as well. Looks to be very fun so far-going to fill in a lot of stuff that I would like to know

ECE 3204
Analog Electronics
Not really sure where this one is going to go. Apparently is the second level to Electronics I where we learned about Transistors and Diodes. Apparently going to go more in depth on those topics. Taught by a Brit who is very application/real world oriented, very very smart guy-not quite on the same page yet. Could be a little tough at first because I learned Electronics I from a guy that could neither teach nor could he speak English. If I can over come my poor foundation here and sync up with the Professor this one is going to fill in a lot of holes and be very valuable.

ECE 3004
AC Circuits Lab
Here we go again, looks like the slightly better put together version of the terrible DC Circuits lab. If everything goes well should be fun

ECE 3074
Analog Electronics Lab
Haven't been to this one yet, but if it's anything like the lab for Electronics I it should be great. I learned pretty much everything I know from Electronics from a combination of study sessions and that lab.

Well That's all the classes, I'll probably put up more information as the semester goes on.

Another Day

Well, Today is a fun day-normally on Thursdays I would work and have to get to class by 3:30pm (gasp, so early), but today is different. I don't have class until 5:30 and I'm not working so I can get everything I need to set up for this semester.

Specifically I mean my laptop. In the quest to install Dyknow I had to reinstall windows. I had been planning on this coming up for a while, so most everything was already backed up, which was nice. But I still had to install windows and configure everything and install all the stuff I need for school. I figured that while I was installing windows I might as well set up a dual with Ubuntu, as it really didn't add a ton of time to the process (I already have the latest Ubuntu release on CD). So now my laptop dual boots into Ubuntu and Windows. Ubuntu is my default but as of yet I have been unable to configure anything in Ubuntu, simply because I've had to spend so much time getting Windows up and running.

Oh well, I do have a homework assignment due tomorrow at 5 that I haven't really started yet, which I would have liked to get done today, but I kinda need a working Windows to do that as well, so...
But that will turn out just fine, I'm not terribly worried. While fighting with my computer I was also able to do a good bit of organizing and such around my room so Yay for that. Also I find that my 10 pages a day plan is going very very well, and I have figured out some new fun little things to play on the bass as well.

So far life is definitely good, even if I can't install MATLAB yet because VT needs to work out their liscensing situation. But I have indeed got a lot done today.

School Starting

Well turns out that it's a good thing that I am keep one of my tablet as a windows computer, as I need to run Dyknow for one of my classes.
That's really just an aside for all you folk out there. But I have looked at my schedule and got my books. Initially I thought I would need to buy only two books for this semester but it turns out that I might need to get another one. My earliest class this semester is at 10:10 and my earliest class on Tuesday's and Thursday's is 3:30. I only have one class on Tuesdays. On Monday's I have 4 classes, on Tuesday's 1, on Wednesday's 3, on Thursday's 2 and on Friday's 2. It looks like it will be a good semester for me. I'm planning right now to work on Tuesday's and Thursdays.
Other than school I hopping that this semester I will be able to get to the gym about once a week, read about 10 pages of a none school book everyday, and play on for about 10 minutes everyday. I'm hopping to have a relaxing and happy semester.
Paul is once again needing to do well this semester to avoid suspension. This is Jen's last semester.
That's kinda it for school.
I set up my surround sound system finally because Paul got an entertainment center type thing for it to go on. Well for now Jen is making dinner and I have to go the bathroom. Till later

Crazy Project #3 Billion

Of late I rescurected my old Sony Clie PDA, it's a fun toy to play with but I can't help feeling that it could be much more useful. Right now I'm trying to get it to sync up with Microsoft outlook (yes I did install it onto this machine). But I'm finding unsurprisingly that it doesn't work how it's supposed. So I figure if I'm going to have to fight with this to make it work I might as well make it work in the way that I want it to and the way to accomplish that is fight with linux. Step 1 to that processes being finding a flavor of linux that will play nice with the system. After that it's just a matter of cramming said linux onto device. For all of you avid readers you're probably thinking that this is yet another unrelated project to the millions that I've mentioned before, but in truth this is simply another step in my match toward total linux based computing. Unfortunately it appears that at least for a little while longer I'm going to have keep this computer completely and utterly stable. Thus I must put up with the slow boot on this machine for a while longer.

Bored Today

Well today I was mostly bored-didn't really do much, just kinda laid about. But I did find my old Sony Clie, I also figured out how to make it read word documents and such which makes me happy. So I found something to fiddle with for a while that might just turn out to be rather useful.

Oh yeah this is a whole new year as well. I don't really have any big time resolutions for this year, but I would like to finally get in the shape that I want to be in. I suppose there is a bunch of other stuff I would like to do but none of it really fits into resolution typeness.

Anyway, looks like VT is going to be wining the Orange Bowl, so yay for that.