Week of October 31 Posted October 31, 2004 at 12:00 am
Cold
Hotlanta is finally starting to cool down and I’m starting to feel it too. By the end of the week, I was well on my way into my first cold of the new season.
On College
Just over one month left; the end of the semester—and possibly my college experience—is closing in at alarming speed. I handled various Japanese tests and my second make-or-break thermodynamics exam as best I could. I’m cautiously optimistic about thermodynamics as I feel like I understand things better now than I have all semester. On the other hand, I thought I had done pretty well on my first exam until I got it back.
As I alluded to above, I’m feeling a bit unsettled as I realize that is the home stretch of my final semester. Suzuki-sensei recently polled our Japanese class to see who would be continuing on to the intermediate level; nearly everyone raised their hands. I would like to count myself among that group too, but I’m out of time; they won’t let me take any more classes once I’ve graduated. Looking back, I would have preferred to split this final semester over a couple semesters and possibly take some more Japanese and other electives. Looking further still, I would have liked to have persued a minor or a certificate in one of these areas. Maybe some of these options will show up on the table again if do go down the graduate school path at some point.
New Software: Miranda Instant Messenger
I just started playing with Miranda IM this Saturday. It is (another) multi-protocol IM client for Windows and it is released under the GPL license. The key features that the web site pushes are low resource overhead and customization through modularity. I have been happily using Gaim for a while now, but I thought I would give Miranda a shot; I’m always looking for the next thing.