• Golf
• Game Programming
• Calculus
• Algorithms and Data Structures
• Development in the J2EE Framework I
• Projects IV

I’m pretty excited for the Projects class. This quarter I’m working on the PHPGedView project. Which is currently ranked #2 on the list of most active projects on sourceforge. My group is responsible for creating an Open “Source” Repository so that people can easily find more sources to look up information about their family tree. It’s a very interesting project and I can’t wait until we get past the database design and start the coding.

I also landed a grading position this quarter, so I have some source of income. I’m grading the Topics in Software Development, which is a class that all of the new students have to take. It’s pretty interesting to see the different things that get turned in and the different ways people decide to do things.

I’ve started playing World of Warcraft again after giving it up for about a month. I’ve decided that I’m going to finish leveling my Rogue and transfer it to Kalecgos since they’ve opened realm transfers. Most of the people that I used to play with decided to give the game up, and I have some friends on Kalecgos, so.. goodbye Tichondrius.

That’s really all that’s going on right now. Since it’s 1AM and I have Golf bright and early in the morning, I’m going to bed.

• Algorithms and Data Structures
• Astronomy
• Development in the .NET Environment III
• Projects III
• Role-Based Software Development
• Trigonometry

It ought to be a fairly good quarter. I’ve got a pretty good team for projects and none of the classes seem too overwhelming.

I’ve decided to give wow a break for awhile. I’m going to try and find something interesting to code in my spare time instead. Either that or try and find something fun to do here in Salt Lake City, which probably won’t happen anytime soon. It seems all of the clubs are only 21+ which really sucks. My roommate found a promising hookah bar to go to, but after we made the plans to go, we found out you had to be 21 to get into it. So those plans were shot down pretty quickly.

* Collaboration and Interpersonal Communications I
* Development in the .NET Environment I
* Information Modeling I
* Linguistics
* Projects I
* Relational Databases I

The classes are harder, and I don’t have nearly has much free time as I did last quarter, but it’s still pretty cool. Learning all about .NET/C#, databases, and team work has been really fun. Today I had my Linguistics mid-term, which seems to be really early since this is only the 3rd or 4th week of school, but whatever. I think I did pretty good on it.

Some friends and I decided to pick up the classic game Age of Empires 2, and the four of us were up until one this morning doing a multiplayer game. It was 2v2 and it lasted over five and a half hours. My side attacked and forced someone out of their base, and they had to rebuild inside his teammate’s base. Then after they got their stuff built back up and defended our attacks, came back with tons of guys and whomped my team. It was pretty fun since I haven’t played that game in over four years.

I still play WoW, but not so much anymore. I’ve been so busy with all this school work that I haven’t had a lot of time for all that.

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I added a section to my photos page where I can post all the pictures I take for my digital photography class. Right now there’s only one, but I should end up getting more.

Today we had to take a VXML quiz, which was pretty easy, but VXML really sucks. It’s a way of programming applications for users to access via telephones. The class is a survey course where we just briefly touch on a few subjects. The next topic we cover is GDI, which should be pretty fun. My mom said that if I get all A’s in my classes, she’ll get me a new computer, that should be pretty cool.

Since it’s almost 1A.M. I’m going to go to bed. Later.

As far as school goes, I got put into the advanced C# class. I decided to setup a wiki for people to reference if they get stuck or something. You can check it out here. “WTF” has become the slogan for the advanced C# class. Currently we’re creating our own Integer data type. We have to overload all the operators and everything. Can you say, “WTF?”

Related: The Daily WTF

I’m taking four classes, they are:

• Introduction to Digital Photography
• Sets, Probability, and Number Systems
• Topics in Software Development
• Introduction to Object Oriented Programming in C#

I’m in school from 8AM to 4PM. It’s very tedious and we cover things very quickly. If everything goes like they should, I will be out in 28 months. In a way I can’t wait to get out, while at the sametime, I really want to stay here forever. I have just found the new freedom of hanging out with friends and playing video games whenever I want. Sweet….

Since it is 1AM, I’m going to goto bed. Tomorrow is friday and we decided we’d volunteer our apartment for a progressive dinner tomorrow night. So we can meet even more people. Later.

The open house was great. I finally got to see the faces behind the voices I’ve been talking to for the past month. Seeing some of the projects that the students had worked on in only their first quarter was amazing. A group created a phone application using VXML, a language I had never even heard of until I saw a Northface professor’s site, to allow a user to call up to a “doctor’s office” and get an appointment with a specific doctor using voice commands, talking to the program as if it were a person. It was very cool. I’ve already created a couple phone applications using vxml, it’s a very neat little language. I’m very excited to go and experience everything that Northface has to offer me. I can’t wait.

It should be pretty fun, tomorrow I have a appointment to meet with the financial aid person at 11:30, then the Open House will start at 1, I think? Where there will be a barbeque and we hang out I’m guessing. Saturday we’ll goto a baseball game and then I’ll come home Sunday morning. Somewhere in there we’ll check out the campus and all that good stuff.

I’ve figured out that at the rate I’m getting paid and the rate I’m spending my money, I’ll never have enough money saved up for my new computer. Which really sucks because I got the job over 6 months ago specifically for that reason. Maybe while I’m in Salt Lake City I can do some odd jobs and get the rest. I think I may put in my two weeks Monday, once I know for sure that I want to goto this school.

Anyways, I need to take a shower to get all the hair off me. Yes, I just got a hair cut, No, I’m not shedding. I keep looking down on my laptop, and there’s hair all over it. My laptop is now fuzzy. .

I’ll be sure to keep everyone, that’s interested, updated about what’s going on with Northface.