Yes, my summer is just within reach…finally! As you will no doubt know (from my previous posts or the countdown on my sidebar), I will be officially done my first year of college at 12:30 tomorrow afternoon! This week hasn’t been as bad as I expected, and to be totally honest, it’s gone by really fast which I’m extremely thankful for. My math test went okay enough I guess, I felt like I did pretty good on most of it with the exception of the last section (simplifying truth tables and boolean expressions…ewww). But overall I think I did pretty well on it, I’d really like to get 80+ on that test, but I’d be happy with anything over a 70 to be honest. My NOS test yesterday is a completely different story; we were supposed to only have 2 hours to write it, but that got changed to 3 hours (as we would have had an hour long class with the same professor immediately after it anyways)…unfortunately, I ended up not finishing the test until around 4:30 (and if you think about how I started at 10:30, that’s a 6 hour test…longest test ever), and I didn’t end up getting out of there until around 5 because I had to mark someone else’s test. It went okay as well and I felt pretty good about it as I was doing it…until I went to test some things and they weren’t working, which is why I spent the next few hours trying to hide my tracks of screwing up somewhere. Still, I think I managed well enough on it and I should hopefully be able to maintain a mark somewhere around the 80 that I had going into it. We did our VB presentation today, which, as you may know, I was probably the most worried about, simply because I didn’t expect the program itself to be done. However, a couple of the guys in our group really stepped up and got their shit together and we managed to pull it off, and it looked pretty damn decent too! Special thanks to Dan for organizing all the shit and to Jimmy for doing a lot of the tough code. You guys really made this project possible, we all owe you hardcore. And tomorrow I’ve got my final databases test which I feel pretty comfortable with; it’s on SQL, queries, forms, reports, and other Access bullshit. But it’s all pretty straightforward stuff, and I feel pretty confident that I’m going to do well (I’m in the low 70’s in that class and it would be really nice to bump that up a few ticks). Either way I really can’t wait until I’m done tomorrow. And that’s not even that half of it…in addition to being all done, my Jilly will be coming up tomorrow afternoon to visit me and spend the night so that she can help move me out on Saturday. I can’t wait, it’ll be like the best congratulations-you’re-done-first-year present ever! (more…)
Well, it’s unfortunate that the weekend is over because it means I’m all that much closer to having to write all these tests this week, but at the same time, it also means I’m all that much closer to being done my first year for good, which is a very exciting thought! It’s hard to imagine that in less than a week I’ll be all done and moved back home (even though it’s only for a day or two), but it’ still exciting to be so close to being done. I got the mark for the second part of the English Independent Study for this semester; it wasn’t nearly as good as I hoped or thought I did, but I still pulled off an okay mark in it overall (it’s actually depressingly low, lower than just about all of my other marks which is really sad). (more…)
It sure is getting down to the wire, isn’t it? I keep thinking about how close I am to being done my first year of college. And yes, I realize this may not be a huge milestone in my life, but hey, it’s pretty much the biggest thing going on in my life right now besides Jill, and I’ll still take it. With each passing day it becomes more apparent just how close I am to being completely finished. Let’s see. There’s today, which will go by fast because I’ll spend the first half of it sleeping and the last half of it with my Jilly. And then there’s this weekend (my last weekend in Residence…finally!); Saturday ought to go by fairly quickly as well since I’ll be spending all day with Jill, although she does have to leave me in the afternoon to attend something for her brother’s upcoming wedding. As much as I wish she were staying for the entire weekend, I’m perfectly content with seeing her for the time that I’ll have. Saturday night will probably be consumed by fun-filled hours of Counter-Strike, if not an adventurous excursion to see what’s happening during the last weekend at college. Speaking from experience, I won’t get up until somewhere around 4 in the afternoon on Sunday, and I’ll probably spend the rest of the day and into the wee hours of the morning either playing CS or watching the Discovery Channel (call me lame, but the Discovery Channel is totally badass). (more…)
Hey y’all, it feels like it’s been awhile since my last entry…and now that I think about it, it has! So here’s my latest information for all you faithful readers!
Basically, I really don’t want to go into my weekend too too much, because it was probably one of the most uneventful and depressing weekends of my life so far. Basically, this morning was not only the first time I’d left my room since Thursday afternoon, but it was also the first time I’d consumed any sort of food since then as well. As you might have guessed, definitely not the greatest weekend. Far from it, in fact. On top of that, I think I logged something like 50 - 60 hours of Counter-Strike playing time, which is absolutely horrid. But hey, things weren’t going good, I wasn’t in a good mood, and to be honest, CS was the only thing keeping me sane the entire weekend. Anyways, it’s over now and I’m feeling much better, so I won’t bother talking about it anymore! (more…)
Well, I’ve survived yet another week in the shithole (also referred to as Sudbury). It’s becoming more and more apparent to me how close I really am to being done by first year of college (even though a couple of weeks ago I thought this was my last week…oh well). I mean, I have this weekend (3 days of playing Counter-Strike in nothing but my boxers, eating junk food, and accomplishing nothing…unless of course I get a surprise visit from a special someone), and then next week, and then next weekend (which I’ll be going to Guelph for with a couple guys to “celebrate” the magic that is 4:20 (thank you Bob Marley!)), and the week following that is my final testing week. After that, it’s time to move out of this crapbag and go home. Unfortunately, I found out today that my last test is on Friday, April 25th, so I would be moving back until either later that night or that weekend. (more…)
Well, it’s official, Paul Ritter is now 19! It’s exciting, I know. So, how was my weekend? Well, let me tell the tale.
First, let’s start with Friday night, shall we? I expected to have a pretty relaxing evening, talking to Jill, watching some TV and/or movies, maybe playing some Counter-Strike. However, that assumption was quickly brought to an end when my buddy called me up after he got off work to say he was on his way to pick me up to celebrate my last chance at illegal underage drinking. We made a quick pitstop at the mall to pickup some snacks (to solve our inevitable munchies, of course) and then headed over to setup some Rock Band and other shit. As a “right of passage,” I was immediately told to do a shot of Jim Beam Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey (which, from my Alberta Premium experience, was a lot harder than you (or they) might have thought). Anyways, I downed the shot and washed it down with some foam from the Heineken mini-keg. After a few drinks we polished off a few songs on Rock Band and were ready to hit the bong. We punched a few pretty big cones continued our rock-fest. After awhile (and in the wee hours of the morning) we eventually started coming down from the alcohol/shake buzz, but the night was far from over; Dan rolled one of the most impressive joints I’ve ever seen, and between the three of us we finished it off in a few pulls during a quick walk around the block. We came back, and sitting down, realized just how high we really were. We played a few more jams and I headed back to my room sometime around four in the morning (I knew I still had some cleaning to do and squeeze in a bit of shut-eye prior to my baby’s arrival a few short hours later). I gave the room a quick cleanup (although I don’t really remember doing it since I was so baked, but when I finally got up the following morning it appeared as if I did a pretty decent job ;)). So, let’s move onto Saturday… (more…)
Yet another travesty hath befallen me. I, as unfortunate as it is, have to return to class after my fantastical three solid days of doing absolutely nothing! Yes, I know, it’s horrible, my life is obviously coming to an end what with these simply horrid next two weeks ahead of me (note the sarcasm). However, there are only two weeks left until I’m finished my first year of college (which is pretty exciting, in my opinion), and until I go home and can spend more time with my Jilly <3. However, next week may not be as enjoyable as most “last weeks of school” are (I refer to the last weeks of public school and high school years where nothing is accomplished and we do things dumb enough to make us forget everything we “learned” that year anyways). Since that week will be my testing week, I’ll probably have somewhere between 5-6 tests, plus the programming project that we’ve had for the past month or so. Now, the thing about this project is that when he first proposed it, I was going to replace one of our tests for the semester and instead he would give us a mark out of 20 (since the tests are 20%). He said that half would be marked based on group work, and the other half on individual work. Since our program is so small (only about 12 peeps), he basically split the class down the middle and put us into one of two different groups of 6. Personally I thought this was retarded, because do you have any idea of how hard it is to keep track of what 5 other people are doing on top of what you’re supposed to be doing? Very retarded. I suggested he make more groups with less people, but he shot that down pretty quick because he’s the professor, and therefore he is always right and I, as the student, am always wrong. Go figure. Anyways, the assignment is to make a simple game-show type game application. Our group chose to do Family Feud, the other I believe is doing Wheel of Fortune. Now, before I start ranting about it, it may sound easy to someone with little or no programming knowledge. Let me assure you there is more involved in such an application than you might think. Much more. Actually, now that I think about it, I’m not even going to bother going into all that garbage. My point about the project is, it’s due at the end of next week, and our group is about as far as we should have been a month ago. We have all our ideas and plans for how it’s going to work, but so far we have absolutely none of the coding done or even started, to my knowledge. Great. You know what that means…late night coding sessions all week long so we can pass the course! Yay! Not. It’s really quite disappointing. Oh well. Life’s a bitch…or so I hear. (more…)
In case you didn’t know already, I have my Fridays off. Now, if you have any idea of my commitment to laziness you can imagine that this plays huge factor and allows me contribute countless more hours towards my lost cause. Basically, my week goes by each second at a time, and not a second faster (that only makes sense, doesn’t it?). However, once 2:30pm comes around on a Thursday afternoon, I am officially done class until 10:30 Monday morning (note: times may vary depending on my state of mind and class attendance;)). Since most weekends I go home to North Bay to spend time with my Jilly <3, I’m rarely caught on campus for the duration of the days most students live for (I suppose I live for them too, but only so I fit in ;)). Anyways, this weekend I unfortunately found myself being unable to go home (although now that I think about it, it’s not that I’m unable, it’s just that I didn’t…)…anyways, basically I’ve been kicking around residence all weekend. To be honest, it’s the first weekend I’ve been here in a few months at least, and let me just say…it sucks! There’s nothing to do here! Yes, people drink and get wasted, but I can do that whenever I want, and to be totally honest I like to think I’m a bit more mature and past that point that I don’t need to do that to feel accepted. Anyways, on top of the lack of things to do, there’s also (and much more depressingly) a much bigger lack of food! What with my food mostly purchasing via my meal card, I’m unable to buy food on the weekends (as the cafeteria employees are much too lazy to work on a weekend, God forbid). Anyways, this unfortunate situation forces me to spend real money on real food, which I am completely against at this point in time (that’s a rant I’ll have to leave for another day). (more…)
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