More on the scheduling dilemma…
Well, seems like today’s advisor meeting was a very good thing to go to. I found out stuff, and learned stuff about how the system works, and all sorta other nifty things.
First thing I learned is that if I complete the psych degree at the end of fall, it won’t necessarily trigger the graduation sequence — because I don’t have a psych advisor who’s taking care of me like my CS advisor is. So that’s cool. I should still make some time to go in and … you know … _get_ a psych advisor, and make sure that my bookkeeping matches their bookkeeping and that everything’ll be kosher… but I don’t have to worry about it _too_ much. If I show up as a candidate on a fall scheduling run (which Janice says won’t happen), then I’ll go in and say “hey, let’s hold off on the graduation process until I finish the primary major”.
Second thing I learned is that if I actually went through the graduation process early, it’d jack up my fees for the next semester by something like $600, for being in a weird status. Slightly odd, but not unexpected … the university likes finding any way it can to squeeze you for money. So actually graduating is out, but I should still make sure that the degree requirements are completed next semester, so it’s a load off.
Third thing I learned is that, should I get some mind-blowingly good offer (say …. in the 6-figure range) for a job after completing the psych degree but before completing the CS degree, or some other thing that precluded me from getting the CS degree somehow, I’d still be able to do the graduation process, but it’d cost me a semester (or summer, whatever) worth of waiting to get it. Which I don’t think is a big deal either … I mean, if someone’s seriously offering me enough to abandon the CS degree at one class left, in mid-semester even, I’d be pretty dang shocked. And happy, mind you … because in a year I’d be out of debt, have a car, have a lot of nice new things, have a very nice place to live, and have started saving for a very nice house and a comfortable retirement. Which would be sw33t… you know? But anyway …
So I’m going to take the final psych class in the fall. Psych 222 — fundamental psychobiology. Then no more psych classes. And I’m officially signed up for CS 483 — Intro to the theory of computation. Janice was pretty shocked that I wanted to take it, given my historically subpar performance in math and algorithms (and thus the natural conclusion that I wasn’t really into the whole “theory classes” thing). But since math grades are 50% busywork here, and I hated both algos profs (still do… don’t get me started on Rego and his repulsive recurrences)… not to mention all such classes were like 3-4 years or more ago, and despite hating the prof the first time I took algos, I loved the material… yeah. Just one of those things, I guess.
Anyway, because of the shock, she made me agree to start out the semester auditing another class. The theory being that if I find in the first two weeks that I really really hate 483 (which … you never know, it’s possible I guess), I’ll have a backup to drop right into and be off and running. I think it’s a good idea, and it isn’t incompatible with my schedule (as in … either way, I’ll have a class a day, and a comfortable and happy schedule).
Oh, for added joy, I just found out that Psy 222 is scheduled in Kran G016. So 8 floors down and 60 feet west of where I work…. that’s always awesome. Head to work in the morning, head to class, then head back to work after …
Still a year and change left… still gotta keep up with phil 303 (fairly substantial take-home exam handed out in a week and some change) and the database class (fairly substantial homework due friday, fairly substantial project due in … well, snikeys, the end of next week — way to give us less than 2 weeks to do the project, yo).
But things are looking good. I think they’ll work out!
April 1st, 2006 at 9:04 pm
thanks for the predictable ban, i’d hope you figure out it was me - lol, not much detective work involved though.
i suppose i could re-register under another name/email/ip/etc but that defeats the point - i dont want to be part of a system where complaining about rep points results in being told off.
i only contributed a little to the basilisk thread by uploading the episodes so im no great loss to gotwoot in general.
anyways, goodluck with gotwoot - i guess i can call you an idiot on hongfire instead…. until they get sick of me and ban me too, hehe.
live long and prosper dude.
April 2nd, 2006 at 11:26 pm
No offense man, but common who actually reads this stuff, and try to keep it short. I mean I saw your pic (your like a fat hairy version of buddha). The reason why you probably talk about your life is because……. well maybe your just gay and yes a little to stupid. Also trying be a little too smart in your essays or whatever is just plain boring, but hey the pictures your take are actually good, but please, never take pictures of yourself……….. I hope you have looked in the mirror recently.
April 3rd, 2006 at 12:17 am
@nasman (”kami” … what a creative alias)
You can trash me whereever you want, be it hongfire or rolleyes or somewhere else. I’m not the one who decided it was necessary to drag a trivial thing like a week’s ban from some mediocre forum onto a site admin’s private site. I’m just the one who retaliated by extending the ban a little bit.
Or rather, what exactly did I do to you? I undeleted two of your posts and locked the thread. And they were posts that were made after the question was answered, were generally offtopic, and were also pointless. I can’t really feel bad about that. If you’ve got a problem with how you were treated by the moderators, you should have taken it up with them, or with me, but this is pretty clearly not the place to do it.
I’m not sure what you intend to accomplish by whatever you decide to do. If you come back, I don’t care. If you re-register with different info, that’s fine… as long as you stay within the bounds of good forum conduct. But trying to drag my name through the mud for my attempts to keep the forums functional and garbage-free is just petty and childish.
And speaking of childish, “ROAST!” (paulyboy), I’m quite a bit more aware of my physical appearance than you are, thank you very much. And I talk about my life and my thoughts for two reasons: to be able to look back at given points in time later and see what I was thinking and doing (because you can’t see your own gradual changes without the perspective given by time), and because my family and friends generally like hearing it. It lets them know what I’m thinking, without me having to go and explain it to everyone. It also keeps me honest, and prevents me from having to present a different face to each of them. By establishing myself as a person whose thoughts are open to the public, I force myself to actually decide, to take sides, rather than just going along adrift in the sea of other people’s opinions. It’s actually a problem I had before I started this … keeping too many disparate half-beliefs, and not really knowing what I thought.
Forcing myself to introspect, to engage in the research and the observation and the internal debate, and ultimately to pick a side is something I view as a worthwhile exercise. It certainly gives me a more well-defined belief structure, and arms me better to engage other people in debate.
But you can’t really criticize the intelligence of what I write if you can’t even fucking get basic grammar and spelling down. Ellipses is three dots, not seven or eleven. Learn to use “to” and “too” correctly, learn how to use a fucking comma to separate clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction. Don’t give me shit about trying to “keep it short” until you can figure out a way to say the same thing with the same flavor in many fewer words. And questioning my sexuality is just … plain out there. Seriously, how mature is that?
Thanks for the feedback on the pictures. I have, in fact, taken pictures of myself, and there are a couple on the gallery. Most of the time I’m pretty displeased with them … I can never get a good perspective, or a good balance, and I tend to be focused on taking the picture, so I end up with either a blank expression, or an intent and angry-looking one. Which is why they don’t get posted … because I don’t like them. However, that’s not going to stop me from posting pictures of myself that I like … after all, I’m the guy who’s paying the 8 bucks a month for hosting, I’ll do what I want with it.
I don’t understand what’s wrong with you children. I probably shouldn’t gratify your crap with any sort of response at all… but that’s my stupidity in action for you.
April 3rd, 2006 at 9:19 am
lol, you admitted your stupidity - my point has been validated, yay!
actually im too lazy to badmouth you on other sites, getting banned from places after little real activity for ages is a bit of habit of mine.
may the force be with you!
April 5th, 2006 at 12:08 pm
WHY do people cyber-trash each other? Are they too immature and insecure to physically confront people…or is it the thing I tell my fourth and fifth graders? People put others down because they are too lowly to climb to new heights? Maybe it is that anonymity affords fools to reveal their own reptilian knowledge!
Your looks are God-given…your brain, too, was a gift from Him. The fool who criticized you doesn’t recognize how like Hagrid you appear, and how, like him, you have an innate ability to deal with animals and smaller creatures like kids! Some people are so stuck in their ignorance, it just makes my heart cry for them.
You are using your intelligence, and your extremely compassionate heart, to do good things and to help others do their jobs. What good is paulyboy doing for anyone except himself and his own misguided ego?
Yes, for now you accept athieism or agnosticism, but I am not sure that will always be…if you didn’t question things that others readily and blindly accept, you would be wasting your intellect. Know that your family DOES read this…and thanks you for the wolf site…