Untitled Posted October 31, 2003 at 12:00 am

I felt like I was back in grade school, staring at the clock, waiting for 3 PM. Today, however, that time would mean a different kind of release for it was a deadline as well. Until that time it was nose to the grindstone material. I only half-paid attention in databases lecture while I tried to squeeze a little more partial credit out of combinatorics homework that had been neglected in favor of more urgent tasks throughout the week. Being Halloween, Dr. Schimmel brought candy for those who attended VLSI lecture. Sadly, none of my professors dressed up or did anything amusing. I still remember how Bill Leahy, my former CS 2130 professor, came in on Halloween a year ago dressed as a pirate and he made the infamous “Argh-V!” joke. Good times.

After classes were over, I worked in the VLSI lab until about half-past three. One of the TAs agreed to take the projects later than expected which was nice. I didn’t finish and even getting all the printouts of what I did have took longer than expected. The class mandates color plots of all designs and the color printers we have are slow and few in number. Take into consideration the number of students in the class (between 60 and 80 by my estimates), and the printers quickly become a severe bottleneck. In truth, I’ve been given fair warning concerning this class from many different sources. They all said, “Start early,” in more or less words, but old habits will die hard and it’s not always as practical as I might like.

For the remainder of the day I took a welcome break and did unimportant stuff. Titus and I watched the remainder of the .hack//SIGN DVD. I meant to go shopping to treat myself to something on Halloween but I lost track of the time. I’ll go tomorrow instead.