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Pokémon came out when I was in high school.
It was generally unpopular among high-schoolers, and rarely discussed by my peers. I suspect the main reason is that they likely had little siblings who were probably obsessively into it, and they resented it as a result.
(I didn't know about Saint Seiya until many years later. Was aware of DBZ but wasn't a fan of it.)
Anyhows, on unrelated news and related to last page stuff about missing university, I finished Introduction to Electrical Engineering and Computer Science I. Got a score of 65.
The
course is what I figure is an intro to topics an electrical engineering
student would go through, but with the addendum that stuff is to be
done through programming. I learned a bit too late that, although it's not a requirement, this one is supposed to be taken after Introduction to Computer Science so as to get used to programming. I was already used to it, but at first I did struggle with my programs and I don't know if there was something in that course that could've helped.
Anyhows, the first big part of the course is automatic controls. I learned about it in
real life, but really needed reviewing, it's difficult since it's quite
abstract (despite the fact that has lots to do with real life) and is
often considered the hardest one in mechanical engineering (after a
prof. is told by a student that they're learning it, the prof. will
often joke asking them to teach him/her afterwards). Anyhows, this one
wasn't as hard as the one in real life, it was done using discrete
math and only one simple system (a robot moving around). Modeling more complicated systems was what
always got me. Unlike in real life, I had to program a bunch of
stuff for lab. I almost didn't do it since for a while I wasn't able to
install the necessary libraries but eventually I could and had to redo stuff I had done on
paper. It was a lot of work, but I'm glad I did, it really helped
internalizing stuff.
Next part was electrical circuits. This one
was easy since it only involved time-invariant circuits. That said, I've always struggled with circuits and I've never grown a good intuition for it, so I often end up derping somewhere. Still, not too bad. The
only really new part was Op-Amps, those do get me, the real problem though was that I
couldn't figure out how to use this program to do some assignments with,
and the instructions weren't helping, so I had to skip them. Same thing
happened later in the course where guidelines stopped being clear on
what I was supposed to do or not do.
But the really hard assignments started
with probability. Despite the fact that I did well purely on the
mathematics part, this time it made clear that computers and I speak
different languages, and something that would be a straightforward
calculation or 'algorithmization' is instead a convoluted chain of
inputs and outputs that must at all times agree on what goes where and
what type everything is. On the plus side this one had a lot to do with
real-life maintenance (state estimation, bayesian updating, etc.) so I
feel it's a good thing to have a solid, practical foundation on it. It
took effort but I think I get it now.
As you can tell from how
much time passed since the last course, I wasn't diligent at all with
this, I did everything out of schedule and procrastinated on exams (I
only did the 2nd midterm and final just now,the latter of which I flunked). Also it bugs me that I don't know
the Spanish terms for much of the stuff I'm learning.
Also, I
forgot if I mentioned this last time, but I find it weird how the
undergrad program is much more flexible with courses than mine was, it's
no wonder there are so many posts on the internet asking about course
advice. Is that the same in other US universities? Anyhow, I have many
ways to go from here. I think I'll go with Introduction to Algorithms
first. Anything but Biology.
Different major courses of study had different amounts of required classes.
@fourteenwings: I generally find having lots of decorations like figurines in my room is relatively pointless because I'm not really displaying it to anyone else. If I put on a display, I ought to be displaying it to someone else, since I don't need to remind myself of the things that I like.
Also they sorta become cheapened in meaning if I have too many of them.
I do have one figurine and a few other such display items, some of which were generated by myself or printed out from the internet, and I prefer to keep them low and relatively out-of-the-way so that I can turn to them for inspiration but they don't just sit there screaming at me all day long.
As for the bag I've actually sometimes used it by keeping the character side against my body, so it just looks like a generic black messenger bag. I like how I can choose whether to be "stealthy" with it.
All but three of our courses were mandatory, with no different versions, all structured on a per-semester basis that you aren't supposed to deviate from (although you can, but you might run into issues). Basically this.
As for the nerdy stuff, if
I ever have Touhou imagery meant to be seen by random people, it'll probably
be something with a more traditional-ish, painted style, due to all the above
plus there being lots of good ones out there.
Also wow that's a ton of required classes. (And I learned some Spanish vocab just looking at that lol.)
Do you ever look at a cabinet full of figurines and find yourself more so thinking that it's "a cabinet full of figurines" than paying attention to any particular one?
I can imagine that if I put one or maybe a few related figurines on a shelf, I could reflect on that one or few, but if I just had a huge collection of them it's like, the value each of them has for me is lessened just simply by crowding.
They're supposed to be representations of characters, right? But the characters they represent are dynamic presences in their stories. They have a charisma of being...alive, in a way.
Figurines can only really serve as a symbol of the characters, because they rarely give off that sense of charisma. Even if a given figurine inspires you today, it might feel less meaningful in five weeks, or five months, or five years. Poseable figures are better about this I guess, but even then they're still something you have to exert your will on to create or recreate a scene from (but this may be quite fun for the more theatrically-inclined), and they're also more expensive and a available in less variety.
Sometimes I feel I'd rather own an iconic item rather than a figurine, because having the item lets me identify with the character who uses that item, rather than seeing them as an "other" when looking at or posing a figurine.
A good hard look into the difficulty of actually using the legal system
-- what should be a proper channel -- to deal with the problem of sexual
assault.
Well worth anyone's read. May be upsetting, of course,
but...that's sorta the point. One feels a frustration just from
reading this. Why can't the justice system be more, well, just?
Anyhows, the compressor runs fine. It was missing refrigerating fluid and after putting some in its pressure seemed to be reducing, suggesting that there's a leak in there, but it's been over a day and a half that it works fine, so... *shrug*
So, why do I mention him? He wanted to be a voice of the people, but he's become a meme instead.
>get followers
A month passes.
>notes are a wasteland of gay nazis and bipolar autists fighting with trans dudettes and male feminists
I love the internet.
At any rate, I really haven't been feeling well lately. Dissatisfaction with everything, the fact that I'm getting old, lack of ambition, that sort of thing.
I just had a birthday, so I know that feel.