52 posts tagged “school”
Have to write some essays on internet cookies for my javascript class. IT'S FUCKING DIFFICULT. I DON'T KNOW HOW TO WORD SHIT.
And then I have to fix my cookies page. We're supposed to create a page that asks for the visitor's favorite color and, on selection, the page background has to change. And then the cookie on the page is supposed to make it so that the next time the visitor sees the page, it's still in the color they selected.
UGH.
I don't know how to do it. I think I might just copy someone else's work since that's what a few people I've seen have been doing lol. I know, I should work harder, but it's kind of hard when I don't know what the fuck the use for selectColor(document.cookie) is for. WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT MEAN??
But at least I finished the extra credit for my logic class. I missed one of the homework assignments and I've been late to class a lot recently, so hopefully those extra points will help me with (at least) the homework I missed. The point system in that class is weird. Most of my new media classes are out of 1000 points, but the logic one... we're only up to 48.5 points and I've got a 47 lol. Still got an A :D woohoo! And I actually like this class a lot better than when I took (and failed) Finite. It's kind of funny because they basically teach the same shit, but the main difference between that class and this one is the number of students. We used one of the big lecture halls for Finite, roughly 150-200 people. And my logic class is just like a regular classroom size, 25 people or so. It's an easier learning environment for me. The only classes I do well in in the big lecture halls are for science and new media classes.
Now I've got to call my bank because I've been holding off on it :\ I need to reactivate my checking card because I accidentally deactivated it for fraud protection. Don't ask me how that happened. I was just being stupid and had a momentary lapse in memory lol.
So, I resigned myself to getting a B in one of my classes. I don't even care. I hate that class. Besides, it's alright as long as I don't get a C or below (the School of Informatics wouldn't like it if I got a C or below since I kind of need that class.)
I haven't really been motivated to study Japanese recently, even though I do have that shiny, new grammar book and I *cough*downloaded pdf versions of other language books off the internet*cough*
I still find it amazing how much crap you can get online for free... illegally. I even got a couple books on Korean grammar. I was like "!!!!!" when I saw them, haha. Not sure if I'm going to try learning Korean though, it seems like such a difficult language compared to Japanese. The sentence structure is the same (i.e., subject/object/verb), but the pronunciation is harder.
Anyway, my stomach hurts. McDonald's sucks.
I've been trying to get into listening to classical music. It's been kind of working. I'm not training myself to listen to it, mind you, but it's easier for me to write and finish homework assignments while listening to instrumental music as opposed to Emily Haines or Great Lake Swimmers.
I bought a Japanese grammar book at Barnes and Noble today where, incidentally, they were playing the theme song to Harry Potter. It was awesome for all of 7 seconds before they cut it off :(
Anyway, about the book, it's not like a textbook, mainly just something for me to reference to while I'm studying. The one thing that irks me about it is that it doesn't have any hiragana or kanji in it, it's all romanized. They also don't really include the "ja nai desu" and "-kunai" forms of nouns and adjectives respectively. They stress instead on "dewa arimasen" and "-ku arimasen" forms, both of which I don't like to use because they confuse me when I go to conjugate them. They don't even say that "ja arimasen" is an equivalent to "dewa arimasen."
However, considering it was only $7 and I already know enough about negating verbs, nouns, and adjectives, I suppose it doesn't really matter all that much. Besides, I only bought it because there's a section on particles that explains, to an extent, the different uses of each one. They also touch on when to use "wa" and when to use "ga."
I might be making a language blog or something in the future, just to help me study the material. I find that if I don't keep studying it, I end up forgetting a lot of the vocabulary and usages. It's the same with kanji though.
I really wanted to start learning Korean, too, but apparently no one in the state of Indiana wants to learn Korean because there was--wait for it..... only ONE book on Korean in the language section of Barnes and Noble.
One fucking book.
It seems like such a difficult language to learn... I still don't know how to correct pronounce the "eo" sounds, like in 서 (seo). And the funny thing is, I can read most Korean characters (although the "wa," "wo," and "we" ones still throw me off), but I can't speak a word of it other than "Hello" and "My name is..." I read Korean really slowly and I still mess up on some of the romanization, haha.
Oh well, maybe if I get really bored over Winter break, I'll try and study it. Maybe.
My midterm in Logic was today. I'm not sure how I did. I'm pretty sure I missed at least 2 big questions because I got confused. Of course, it may have to do with the fact that I waited until this morning to study and still only managed to really get in half an hour of studying, but I blame it on... uh... the weather. Yeah. It's the weather's fault.
I really like Logic though. It's a fun class. Or maybe I just like it because it's not that damn Finite class that I failed... twice. No, Logic is a lot better than that, or it is so far. I don't like translating categories that much, but for some reason I like drawing Venn diagrams and figuring out whether arguments are valid or not. I'm a very troubled person.
Well, this entry was extremely long. I think I'm going to go read some of that Japanese grammar book even though I probably won't remember any of it by tomorrow. Yay!
Had my first lab assignment in my web development class due last night. And by "first assignment" you know that means it's the easiest assignment you're ever going to get that semester, but I found it difficult.
Javascript is a lot different than XHTML coding. I mean, you don't have to close off scripts with brackets like you do with CSS. Instead, it looks like...
var ans = prompt("Your name, please?","").toUpperCase();
if (ans=="WALLY") {
alert ("Your name is Wally. Awesome name!");
}
else {
alert ("Hey, your name isn't Wally!")
}
See? The first line doesn't have brackets. UGH. IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE TO ME. Only the if and else statements do, but the way it's arranged confuses me. It took me a while to figure out where to put the .toUpperCase() syntax in the code in order to make the script not case sensitive, which is what my professor required for the lab.
This is supposed to be the easiest lab, and yet I managed to spend nearly 3 hours on it. There are two other pages, one that uses more alert boxes like the example above and one that uses loops to create sequential alert boxes, each containing an integer that increases by 1 each time you hit "OK." Pointless, really.
I find the work challenging, but I'm not sure if I enjoy the challenge or if I'm just trying to make myself like it :\
I've got a quiz in Japanese tomorrow which I haven't studied for. I've sort of been spending the last hour or so learning about brown recluses. I've been trying to figure out what types of spiders I've been killing and since brown recluses can cause tissue necrosis, which is seriously disgusting and not something you should do a google image search on, I wanted to find out if those were the spiders I've been sending to Spider Heaven recently.
I'm still not sure if they are or not. Even after subjecting myself to looking at pictures of the disgusting things and making myself squirm in my seat, I still can't tell. I mean, these spiders are smaller, but I've seen several of them and I'm thinking that they were hatchlings, so of course they'd be smaller than the adult brown recluse, right?
Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find much on brown recluse hatchlings other than the reference to brown recluse females, whom are able to reproduce multiple times even after only being impregnated (or fertilized, or however spiders reproduce) ONCE in their lifetime. Can you believe that? Of course a spider that has venomous bites that can lead to necrosis and, in severe cases, death would be able to reproduce as many times as they want without the need of a male to fertilize them (or impregnate them? Whatever.) after the first time.
Gotta check my bedsheets, my clothes, and everything else before I touch anything. They could be hiding anywhere, those creeps. I guess I should thank the internet for adding to my paranoia. I always check my bedsheets because I found an unidentifiable bug on them once and ever since then I've checked. Now, however, I'm going to be watching my every step. It will certainly cause me to walk much slower than I do already.
Very, very slow. Like a feeble old man.
Speaking of being old, 21 doesn't feel any different than 20. Still, the simple notion that I could get drunk off my face any day I want (except for Sundays because in Indiana you can't buy alcohol on Sundays unless it's at a bar) makes me feel freer, less restricted.
Once I hit 30, though, I'm pretty sure that's when it'll all go downhill.
I wanted to finish 4 seasons of Criminal Minds before the 5th season airs, which is on Wednesday, but I don't think I'll be able to get through 43 or so episodes, all about 44 minutes in length (I still have season 3 and 4 to go through).
Le sigh.
I haven't studied for my exam in Logic tomorrow. Not that I didn't do any homework today. I finished my assignment for my N190 class, pretending to use a tool in Photoshop which I don't have. It's in CS4, but I only have CS2 on my computer so I'm missing some things. I guess I could download it, might break my computer though and send it to its grave :\
Anyway, watched the Grammy's! Neil Patrick Harris's opening number was great. He has an awesome singing voice. I've watched part of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, but I hardly remember it now. I just remember him stalking this girl and meeting her in a laundromat and he acts all surprised when he sees her there and says, "Oh, what a crazy random happenstance!" It's hilarious. I love Neil.
Can't say much about the entire award show since I started doing that N190 assignment during the last hour. I am kind of pissed that reality shows get their own genre. I mean, I HATE reality shows with a passion. They're just mindless things to watch, it's not even entertaining. The only thing I hate more than reality shows would probably be Gumby. I don't think I could watch Gumby ever again, that green... clay blob used to haunt my fucking dreams when I was a kid.
Ah, it's 2:30am. I should probably go to sleep now. I need to study for that exam tomorrow in the morning before I go to class.
First off, what the fuck is up with the tags? It's like a tag-list, and it's styled like a tag-cloud. It's a hybrid of both and for some reason my brain just refuses to interpret it correctly. It bothers the usually dormant OCD part of my brain, but I suppose I can get used to it. Why the fuck am I talking about that anyway? Useless.
As for school, it's alright so far. This marks the second week since the start of term, the first full week I have yet to complete. I was lucky that classes started last Wednesday and I only have school on Mondays and Wednesdays (if you're slow, that means I only had to go to class 1 day last week. Yay, maths!)
I'm taking a Logic class, which kind of screws me over because I suck at word problems. I've always been particular to algebra with all the formulas because it's easy for me to just plug shit into an equation and have it pop out the answers. But I didn't have to retake the math placement test, since those only stay with you for a year and if you don't take a math class in that time then you have to retake it. Stupid rules. Stupid school.
My Japanese class is good so far. Kind of overwhelming in a way because the work will be handled a lot differently than in my old class and there's students in the class from 3 different teachers, including my old class, so it's... new. The class is still less than 20 people though. A lot of people apparently didn't go on to continue their Japanese. Either that or there's another teacher teaching Japanese, Year 2 this semester. I don't know.
My other two classes are online ones. I have yet to do any actual work in them, but I know I'm going to be screwed for at least one of them because I need to install shit on my computer and I don't have a good computer to install shit on. Oh well. Maybe I can crash into one of the computer labs and do the work.
There has been one huge change in my life, but because I'm the way I am it won't affect me so much now. I don't know. I don't want to talk about it because people will just ask questions, and I won't know how to answer them because even I don't know the answers to them. I just sort of wanted to put it down somewhere. Usually people choose to write it in a journal, but I hate writing on paper because I make too many mistakes in spelling/grammar and I end up either crossing out the words or erasing the shit out of the page. So I decided to put it in this blog since this is the only one I use now.
I hope you are thoroughly confused. Because I am, too.
I knew I should have never started watching British television. Damn them.
Web development - A+
I heard from Kelsi (who never updates her vox anymore, I wonder why she still has one) that her school doesn't count +/- on grades (e.g., B+ would be the same as getting a B), but apparently my school does if I look at the decimal equivalent of it. Anyway, I didn't really look at the grade for my final website, but I got a 94/100 on the final exam, which just consisted of a lot of Ctrl+F from me while I "looked" through the powerpoints for the answers.
Some would call that cheating. I call it being resourceful. No, there is not a difference.
Piano - B+
I don't know what it is with me and getting B+'s in music classes. Same crap happened in my other music class, but I think that's because I didn't do any of the concert reports, besides the very last one we had to do, which I only did because it was 200 points instead of the meager 50 the first ones accounted for. The same thing happened in this class, actually. I skipped out on doing the concert reports again so, honestly, it shouldn't be a surprise getting this shitty grade. I HATE B'S. Not because they're below A's, truthfully I could give a shit less, it's just that I hate the letter B to the point that if it shows up on my report card I just want to rip the damn thing to shreds.
Yes, it's one of the letters of the alphabet that I happen to really hate. Don't ask me why.
Japanese 132 - A+
How the hell did I get a 100.3% in this class? I vaguely remember being absent at least once, being late for the past month every day of class, but somehow my participation in class outweighed my tardiness and I got a 104/100 on attendence and participation. LOLWTF. Sensei said this is the "unofficial" course grade, and the official one will be available later. I have no idea what she means by that. So this isn't my final grade? Well. Whatever. I don't think I'm going to have her as an instructor next year since I think she only teaches 1st year Japanese, but I'll have to see. I hope she teaches Japanese 2 as well.
N110 - ?
I don't have a grade for my N100 class, but I can miss 80 points on the final and still get an A-, and the final project was worth 250 points so... yeah. Hopefully I don't miss more than 80 points. I actually put more thought into this project compared to my midterm, but my midterm was so much easier to make since it was a t-shirt website and you can put any type of shit on a t-shirt and call it a t-shirt.
And good news! They approved my SAP! I had to submit an appeal for financial aid since my cumulative GPA was below the standards for recieving financial aid (I think I had a 1.8 after last semester, even with my 3 B's and 1 A), so I wrote a 1-page statement explaining why my GPA was low. I'm not going to say that it was because my super amazing writing skills that they approved it since I honestly think they just felt bad for me that they went ahead and did it, but I'm still really happy that I didn't get turned away. When I looked at my balance today, it looked like my $3,600 had been paid off already! I have about $1,750 to spend on books and things for next semester now :)
I've been in a good mood since this morning, and it's probably because of that. I know it's only a matter of time before things start looking down again (it has to happen sometime or another), but for now I'm just happy that things are going pretty well now. I'm even a little bit excited about Monday when I start my internship, which is surprising considering how much I was dreading it two days ago. It's unfortunate that my summer days are going to be spent in an office (albeit they have a kickass office with mushroom lamps), but it'll give me a chance to learn some new things and decide if this is the path I want to take.
来週の月曜日までに 全部単語を覚えられないわよ！！！！
We took a review exam for our Japanese final today. Ughhh... I didn't know half of the kanji even though she gave us the characters and all we had to do was pick the correct ones to use. Ugh. Whatever 3 x 14 is equals the amount of kanji I have to know by Monday, plus I need to know the kanji compounds. For example:
電＋話＝でんわ＝PHONE
午＋前＋中＝ごぜんちゅう＝IN THE MORNING
And then I have to memorize what particles are used for which verbs since there are certain ones that use something other than を.
And the translating part! T____T;;;; There was this one sentence that people were getting confused on in class. I don't want to seem like an ass, but it's not confusing if you break it down into parts. They were going on about how it sounded weird in English, and I had to hold back a laugh because IT'S A JAPANESE CLASS dammit. And, anyway, it sounded fine to me. But here's the sentence anyway. I know that the last part of the sentence sounds weird, but it makes sense. And who the hell cares if you brought more than 4 tomatoes with you? You're still only cutting 4 of them whether there are 20 or not.
Please cut four tomatoes which I brought from my house.
(家から持ってきたトマトを四つ切ってください。)
Now compare that to:
Please cut the four tomatoes that I brought from my house.
The second sentence makes more sense, yes, but the meaning is exactly the same. Seriously, I wanted to say something to the students who brought up the fact that "it didn't make sense." If it didn't make sense, then you obviously don't understand English. 英語が分からないのか？！
Man... I should study more though. There's this guy in my class who's a first year and knows a shitload of vocabulary. Yeah, I'm jealous of his memorization skills since mine has failed me since... uh... middle school. I think my brain is going bad D: I wonder what type of old person I'll be if it started this early...
まっ いいよ。今、「銀魂」を見に行く。宿題したくないから～
Kind of.
DON'T ASK ME WHY I NAMED IT THAT. I couldn't think of anything and then I just put it on the layout and was too lazy to think of something better.
I have a feeling I'm going to have to add more shit to it so that it looks presentable for my design class. It looks too empty :( I should have just made it a wordpress layout and been like "It's minimalistic style bitches, I'M DONE." Ah well. For my web development class, however, it's more than enough since everything is really only focused on how well the site is coded, if it validates or not, and how many of those stupid <!-- HTML comment --> and /* CSS comment */ tags we use.
UGH. I can't believe I finished it a day early.
And I have a final tomorrow in piano but I have no clue what the hell is on it. She didn't give us a study guide or anything D: I'm doomed.
I also realized that listening to classical music makes me less hungry than when I listen to other types of music... which is odd.
O OH OHOH OHOH!!! ANDNNNDNDDDD....
SPAM UPDATE: 2,908!
Just 92 more to go before I pass the 3k mark.
WHY IS IT SO HOT?!!?!?!?!?!?! The hell, man... why'd it get so warm all of a sudden? =_=;;
Finals are next week for me (or this coming week). I have to finish designing a website and code it before Tuesday. I hate it when shit is due "at midnight" because I'm never sure if they mean the actual midnight of that day (e.g., at the beginning of Tuesday, 12 A.M., which is technically midnight, or the end of Tuesday). Ugh. I really hope it's not due until Tuesday night, but I think I'm going to finish it early just in case.
I also have to take 3 exams O_O one for web development (ugh), one for piano plus my performance exam (double ugh), and one in Japanese (which wouldn't be so bad except there's kanji, so ugh).
AFTER THIS WEEK I'M DONE. Or at least I think I am. I might have to keep going to class for in-class critiques. Do we have critiques for our final presentations? I don't even know.
LOL. And I was trying to procrastinate earlier but Mediafire was being a jackass so I couldn't even do it :( Not fair.
