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Name: Pete
Birthday: 2/28/1989
Gender: Male
Interests: Stuff with computers - particularly programming/gamedev, playing games, learning languages, procrastinating, reading things I will never need to know; actually reading in general.
Expertise: Being stupid.
Occupation: Student
Industry: Computers (Software)
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AIM:  Chura24
Member Since:
6/22/2005
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| Apologies for the slight disturbance in my Xanga posting schedule. With that...
UNL is going pretty well. I have a couple really hard classes, a couple really stupid classes, and a couple classes I am really just alright with. Most people here are very friendly. The amount of free time I have has been highly variable, but I've been able to get at least a little bit of recreational programming and guitar-playing in which I'm very happy about. I've also learned to play racquetball which is a really fun game that you should probably go play too.
Sarah drove all the way up here from Springfield over the weekend to come visit me for our anniversary (and also because we missed each other). We saw some gardens and parks and ate some very delicious food and it was all-in-all really awesome!
I have a really insane calculus teacher and I think I am literally failing that class now, but hopefully that will turn around soon. She seems to be slowly realizing how hopelessly difficult her class is despite the fact that she has a class of "honors" students. This is a good start. No, we cannot be expected to teach ourselves how to do assignments that are worth significant amounts. Because if we cannot teach ourselves, you will fail us, and that is not right.
My fall break is October 22 & 23. I am looking forward to coming home again, but it is still a month away. Ohhh well.
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| School's almost out, can't wait. Feel sick right now, hopefully will alleviate itself before I go back to working/taking AP tests. Still on page 20/300 for German novel, no idea what I'm going to do there. That was a ridiculous assignment. Dan already turned his in, and we all know why. Because he's a low-down, filthy harlot. I'm serving the majority of the time at Steak 'n Shake now and I like it. I crave more free time for hobbies, but it will have to wait for summer. I need to go write some notes for Return of the Native because Andy hasn't even finished the book yet as far as I know and he's my partner, so one of us better get on it. Got my tax refund check in the mail - wawoo!
Have a lot of books to read, apps to code, songs to strum, foreign words to stumble over... but not yet, not yet, not yet. :(
If everything goes perfect my AP tests will yield 18 hours of credit which isn't nearly as much as I'd have gotten if I'd done dual-credit through UMSL...who knows what would've transferred and what would apply, and for that matter, what WILL apply, though. Also, I have to get a :4: on the Bio test in order to get credit at UNL..holy geez.
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| So, it looks like I'm going to University of Nebraska-Lincoln! I'll probably be visiting the campus next week and provided I don't get shot or a dormitory falls down while I'm there, I think it's where I'm at. Got my letter from MSU last night (actually technically it was this morning) when I came home and I did :not: receive the Presidential Scholarship which, in the views of one of my esteemed friends (Ms. Wohaska) does not matter since I was going to end up at UNL anyway. But, now I'm a lot more sure. Frau was saying yesterday that it actually has a fine language program: how about that! but I will probably major in Computer Science. Or Electrical Engineering, or maybe Geology (ok no). It is rather a long way to Lincoln but nothing egregious or that will prevent me from coming home fairly frequently, if I so desire. It's also conveniently located to visit people from Springfield, as far as these things go.
Work at Steak 'n Shake is fine. Coupons are out which means kerr-raziness there, but I'm also getting more hours and I hear they're going to let me start serving soon...that's right....Pete's going to be a server. Last night I knocked a Frisco Melt + fries out of Ashley M's hand and the plate exploded on the floor, though. She wasn't mad at me, or she hid it very well and she's going to strangle me with an apron when I come in this afternoon.
I have a little consternation about AP tests...I'm going to be taking quite a few of them if I have anything to say about it and, uh, they're really hard. I'd love to have the credits, though...the more I've got, the sooner I can get out of college/that doesn't sound really desirable so the more I can take classes I really want to take at college. But from what I heard the AP Calc test was a flippin' disaster for last year's seniors, AP Bio I always sleep in so I'm going to have to really study, AP Lit I don't even know how you would prepare for it and I don't think I'm prepared, and AP Psych...I don't think I have a lot of faith in Mr. Allen. When I asked Mrs. Glore about AP German she said I might be better off just taking UNL's placement test and when I asked her about AP Computer Science she said I might be better off starting at the bottom there so I have the same base knowledge, though maybe she's just saying that to get out of the full day of paperwork she'd have to do. : ) Naw, Mrs. Glore wouldn't do that. So uhm, yeah, college credit, I wonder if UNL takes UMSL credit? I never took any of it so it doesn't really matter, but I'm curious if I would have had all of it already if I'd just done that. AP tests are cheaper though!
Ms. Wohaska is a fine young lady.
Oh yeah, I'm learning to play the guitar now. I'm not very good and my guitar doesn't have a notch for a guitar strap so I can't really play with a pick while standing, but it's a lot of fun.
& I just remembered that I really haven't done any cool 18th birthday stuff yet...I need to go get some porn/lotto tickets/register for the draft/the vote. Ach me.
EDIT: Just looked at my previous post and noticed that my outlook on college has changed very drastically for the better in a short amount of time. I'm fine with that.
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| So uh...what's happened in 3 weeks? Those two snow days were pretty sweet minus not being able to go anywhere, and me being sick, and it being on top of Valentine's Day. Work at Steak 'n Shake is still lean, but coupons will be out on March 7 so my paycheck should increase in proportion to my misery (and my misery, I think, will be increasing a lot). Most of the servers are lucky to get work two days a week and I get a steady three, so there's something. Too bad it's always my weekend.
Another thing, I was pretty psyched about being in the talent show TWICE! Unfortunately it turns out I'll probably be in the talent show approximately NOT AT ALL thanks to Mr. Easton's lack of appreciation for the Warrior Men and outright inconsideration for circumstances generated by travel and snow days. Yeah. The whole thing did have one good side effect, but wasn't nearly what I hoped. This is me hoping it's not a theme for my life.
We've started on our German novels in Frau's class. Actually we did a long time ago. I'm on about page 4. It is a lot harder than I expected; sometimes it's a lack of time being input, sometimes it's just being outclassed by real German literature compared to my somewhat meager schooling. I would like to think that reading is going to really help me out here, but the idea that I'll just scrape my way through it and not learn anything is there too. Frau is crazy. I want to learn German! [ich will deutsch lernen] And a lot of other stuff, too.
College is, as usual, a source of serious discontent and shifting opinion. Last night I was almost 100% on where I was going. More and more opinions on what I should be doing, some of them honestly with very good reasons backing them. But at the same time? I don't know anything about anything and I'll just do what I please and hope for the best. Probably doesn't really truly make for the best decision, but I don't know what else to do. Previously my dad was, if not in favor of Missouri State, at least neutral about it. Now, suddenly, he's opposed. What gives? Should I go wherever's most affordable or not? Is extra cost associated with a college someone thinks is better going to be worth it? If it is, will I ever even know? Is it true that most of college is what you make of it? If it's not, by what metric SHOULD I be measuring? How much is my choice of college going to affect my future happiness, if at all? Are certain other things really going to pan out or are they just pipe dreams? Will the Middle East even still exist by the time I graduate from college? QUESTIONS MARKS?!
Most of you guys reading this are at a point in your life where some decisions you make in the next few months will decide whether you end up being an electrician or an astronaut or an inmate. OR you're at a point in your life where you think the decisions you make will be important but in reality you're already doomed to a life of being a multi-millionaire executive or 40-year cashier. I haven't decided yet. My dad might recommend you the military.
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Life's alright. I need to sleep more. My hours at Steak 'n Shake are very slim, yet always inconveniently placed on weekend nights. Thanks a lot, ya punks. School sucks, need to sleep more so I'm awake for it. Turns out my car was running on coolant that was recently found to totally fsck over your cooling system, so that just got fixed...hopefully it will stop leaking coolant everywhere and bothering me about adding more. Umm. Started on my German novel, that's kind of exciting. This wealthy guy is trying to bribe the bishop of Mexico but surprisingly, it's not working. Der Bischof wird seinen Priest nicht verkaufen. Wish I had more time to do anything & everything, but I don't. Sucks to that.
If you need someone to saute' some chicken for you, I am currently booked. Sorry! Try back later.
Quick poll: why are you going to the college you plan to go to?
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