So many things going on in life right now. Here’s a brief overview:
- I’m trying to sort out my schedule for next year to make sure I can both graduate on time and avoid having to take any mundane classes my senior year. Namely, I skipped taking Calculus 1 my freshman year here at RPI, but it looks like I will need the extra hours of credit, and I can only get those hours from taking Calculus 1. If I take it at RPI, that means having to take the dreaded Gateway exam (dum dum dum!). The Gateway exam (for non-RPIers) is an un-timed exam of 10 problems (all calculus problems) given via the computer where in order to get an A for the course, you have to score a perfect 10 out of 10 on the Gateway. I got a B in Calculus 2 because I was unable to acheive a perfect score >:-/ My current plan is to see if I can take it at the State University of New York (SUNY) Albany campus this summer, which would both be cheaper (about $400 compared to $3600) and I wouldn’t have to do the Gateway! I have a meeting with my faculty advisor about this tomorrow morning, I’ll keep you posted.
- I’m involved in several web-related projects for RPI, many of them are pretty cool. The latest thing now is to develop a mapping solution that the entire campus could use. More details on that sometime in the next week or so. The other project in the more immediate future is to put together a Community Service hours tracking solution. This would help students report their community service participation and hours so that when they graduate they would receive a transcript of community service hours just like they do for their grades. Sounds pretty cool, right? I’m also working for a company in Albany consulting with them on their web presence.
- In other geeky news, I’m revamping my homepage a little bit. I’m actually toying with the idea of adding the two most recent entries from my LJ to my website. My only concern is that my website will load considerably slower if LJ is expereincing technical difficulties (see my earlier post today!). I might try it out and see how it goes. A lot of people do this with their blogs, but not many people do it with embedded LJ’s. It should be interesting!
- First public announcement: My LJ friends have known for a few weeks now, but my girlfriend of two years (Michelle) and I broke up a few weeks ago. Friends, stay tuned to the journal for updates. Not much public about this, sorry.
- Classes are going well, the first exam for Discrete Structures in coming up on Monday. I also have 6 chapters and a case study to read for Abnormal Psychology! That’s like half of the book! But really it’s interesting stuff so hopefully it will go quickly 
All right, time to get moving for the day. Look for updates on each of these things throughout the next few weeks!