I stayed up so late last night doing work. I was dead tired. I never did get the lab working. I had two large worksheets to do for writing, and I BSed one of them. I went to bed around 7. I had trouble with the exam at first until I realized that when trying to get a character from a string, the method isn’t getChar() nor char(). It’s charAt(). And then I turned it in fully working. I came back, ditched math lecture again, and did my second worksheet. It was even more BS than the first one. It turned out that they weren’t collected; they were just rought drafts. Oh well. Anyways, happy about the lab.

I got an 83% on my math midterm. Very acceptable, and in the region I though my score would fall in.

We got our CSE midterm scores today. I got a 16 out of 24. One person in my discussion got 22, two got 17, and everyone else got lower. Jacobson curves the grades so I did very well.
I ditched CSE discussion, CSE lab, and math lecture today. I just went to the peer conference for writing. Jay accidently turned in his essay with 3 pages of mine in it that he was referencing, but he explained what happened to Michelle, and she was okay with it. I also told Rachel that she can e-mail me her next draft, and I’ll look it over.

The ICS and math midterms went smoothly. I probably did better on the math than the midterm, but I’m sure I did well on both. Peer review conferences for our essays on Monday. I caught up on the math concepts I didn’t know today. Yeah, good times!

Turns out, I did pass the lab exam. I was 1 of the 2 people who passed in a section of 35 people. I guess the compiling didn’t matter as long as the code was correct.
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I stayed up late talking to some guys about UCI myths, video games, movies, life, etc. I love it here. I have that 9:30 CSE lecture… I usually sleep in it, but this will be the last class before the midterm. Crap.

Took the lab exam today. It seemed my code was all correct, and it compiled, but it wouldn’t work right. One of the methods I had to code was “calculateMaximum(),” and when the maximum was displayed at the end of the pgoram, it was always displayed as “0.” I tried debugging by having the method print all the variables after every line of calculation, but nothing outputted. When coding at home, I use TextPad to compile the files, but in lab, we have to compile using the console. I think that when compiling from the console, I have to compile each file… TextPad will automatically compile all files with it. Maybe that’s what was wrong. I’m not sure.
Of the five problems on the calculus midterm, I did three easily. The fourth problem, which was proving that two lines were skew and finding the distance between them, was a bit harder. I solved it but struggled a bit. The last problem was a limit problem. If only I had tried y = x^2, I would have found that the limit didn’t exist. I tried using the squeeze theorem because I thought it existed. I fucked up picking my functions. I incorrectly said the limit did exist. Makes me sad. I could still pull an A, but I’ll probably get a B.
Writing was alright. Nothing bad really, but it just seemed to drag on. Rough draft of the next paper is due Friday. I’ll start Wednesday or Thursday.
152’s birthday today! Yay, happy birthday!

I screwed up on my calc quiz. (d/dx)(cosx) != sinx. But I put it anyways. I’ll still get credit for doing most of the problem right, I bet. I ditched lecture Friday and Monday but went today. I didn’t really understand what was going on… and it actually had nothing to do with the stuff from Friday and Monday… it was just that I slept through most of today’s lecture. The midterm’s on Monday. I think I’ll do well though.
CSE lab exam is next week. I should start on that soon. CSE midterm is next week too. It’s supposed to be really hard. I’m not going to look at anything tonight though. I just feel too dead.
Writing is going well. The paper was postponed until Monday. I should work on it this week because there’s other writing hw too, but I’ll do it all this weekend I guess. There’s a couple guys in that class that are just awesome because they say what they want to say.

CSE 21 is interesting, but I know it’s going to be really hard. It’s an introduction to java class. I’m already not working at it enough. I’m not really behind, but I should have started. Anyways, the stuff makes sense even if I haven’t started programming.
Math 2D is calculus 3… multivariable calculus. It’s basically calculus in 3D space, dealing with planes rather than lines, volumes rather than areas, etc. It’s pretty cool, and I enjoy math, but I’m always falling asleep in that class.
I hated Writing 39B, Critical Reading and Rhetoric. I guess I’ve never been that into these types of courses. However, lately it’s been getting interesting. We’ve been discussing philosophy, reading Plato, thinking about illusion versus reality, examining the idea that an elite few who are better than average should rule the populace, and various other things. Hopefully, the course will stay interesting.
I ditched CSE lab today. First time ditching a class since I got here. Mike came back with us from discussion and we all had lunch. I’ve made it on time to CSE discussion/lab some, but I’ve also been late. Same goes for math lecture. I’ve always been on time for math discussion. So far, I’ve been late to CSE lecture and writing every single time. I guess it doesn’t matter though, lol. Bad “academic persona” as A Student Guide to Writing at UCI puts it. Yeah, you know, I’m tired.