Free at last!

I think the hardest part is over. I am actually kind of glad that this campus has a "dead week" (something I'd never heard of before) because it will allow me to concentrate on studying for my finals. Everything that is due next week I've already finished so from here it seems like a clear ride! I'm not too excited about my Chemistry final but he said that the questions should be similar to the ones throughout the semester (it's comprehensive) so I should be okay as long as I can answer all the old questions, especially the ones I missed. Anyway.... I don't have a whole lot of pressing school work to do so I'm happy. I'm actually rather excited about my new classes next semester. I want to meet the teachers and learn new things. Should be interesting!

I just had a thought today. You know, I've been treasurer of the Reformed Presbyterian group on campus for the last couple of months and I have no idea what is going on. There have been no meetings to my knowledge so nothing to do. I'd nearly forgotten about it! Not that I'm anxious to have a meeting but it just came to my mind today.

The Calculus test went fine, I felt very confident on all of my answers. Apparently a lot of people had trouble finishing the test but the teacher DID give us a practice test beforehand if we wanted to well... practice. I bet the ones who didn't finish didn't practice. I did the practice test and thought that the actual one was a lot easier so it helped me a lot. I don't know why but I just get all excited when it comes time to take a test. The students around me are dreading it and exclaiming "oh man! I should have studied!" and I think that perhaps me, grinning like Cheshire, might give them cause to doubt my sanity. Oh well. I like tests because they are a challenge. It's me against the problem.

Then there was Chemistry which was as uneventful as ever. I'm not too interested in the shape of atoms I guess, whether a molecule is tetrahedral, bi-pyramidal or whatever else. I can't really see and test it myself. I suppose it's useful for some disciplines (well, a lot in fact) but probably not Electrical Engineering.
The only interesting thing that happened was a student dropped his pencil (he was next to the aisle) and it rolled down a short ways. Instead of sliding out of his seat a few inches and picking it up (like I would have done) he taps the guy in front of him a couple times, gets his attention and then asks him to grab his pencil for him. He never even looked like he was going to leave his chair. It just seemed slightly lazy to me. It would have cost him almost no effort to do it himself.

Then was my Economics test. Which wasn't too bad but it wasn't incredibly easy either. I'm confident of an A but (oh no!) it might be an A- or something! We'll see how it goes. I think I have all the correct answers but usually I miss one due to my own misunderstanding or just.... dumbness. I hate when I do that and have to kick myself.

I dropped by to see Mr. Yule really quick afterwards but I knew he would be heading out so I didn't hold him up. I just wanted to know how the Reformed Presbyterian meeting went. Apparently it went better than it could have. I'm looking forward to hearing about it in more detail on Sunday.

While going down the building... I just "happened" to pass by my Calculus teacher's office. She hadn't graded the tests from two hours before yet though. I guess I am just too curious about scores. Then I went down to my Java professor's office. Today at midnight is the due date for Program 8, which I finished thankfully but I had a printout and wanted to ask him a question about something in my program. There were a few students waiting before me and they couldn't get their programs to compile so they were asking the professor for help. When it was my turn Dr. C asked what I needed and I said that my problem was that my program worked perfectly, but I didn't understand why one part did what it did (essentially I didn't understand why when invoking the array it used the "toString" method from the Cars class). He grinned and said "Your program working correctly is a problem?" He explained to me, in about a minute why it was doing what it did (because the array was an object in the Cars class) and I thanked him because what he said made sense. I was probably the only student who came to him today with a program that was working correctly!

On the way down from his office I walked down the stairs, saw the number "1" (indicating the first floor) next to the door but I absently kept going. Down the next flight of stairs I saw the sign that said "basement." Hmm, that can't be right! So back up to the first floor. I blame it on the fact that I've been programming with Java and using arrays and the first object in an array is at the position "0" (zero). So the first floor should be the second right? *sigh
No matter what excuse I use, I still ended up at the basement.

Someone had left a small message on the board in Chemistry class, it said:
OSU Brothers Under Christ
Beta Upsilon Chi
Psalm 133:1 Rho Chapter

There was no other information but it may be interesting to check it out. I don't know exactly what it is, or how deep or "right on" it is. Has anyone else ever heard of that group?
Not much going on right now. Oh, I watched two episodes of "Wanted: Dead or Alive" today, with good old Steve McQueen. It was pretty good. For a western that is. ;)