I’ve said this before, but each year at school is about 90% the same with the other 10% being completely different. For example, my room and roommate are different, the computer science office has been changed to have tile floors and we all got new computers with two 20-inch widescreen monitors. Everyone looks younger. There is a lot of construction going on that wasn’t before. This time I think a lot more has changed now that I am off the team. Everything just feels different. I don’t feel the pressure of having to perform at a certain level every day. If I don’t feel good one day, it doesn’t matter.
My achilles has been feeling better and I’ve been running some, but I still don’t have my strength completely back. I don’t feel “normal”. I have every intention of working out and running with the team again, but I don’t think I would fare very well in my current condition. Maybe by next week or the week after I can show up for maintenance runs and then for workouts later on. Currently, my class schedule doesn’t conflict with practice times except for the colloquium, but I’m not too sure if I want to keep it.
The apartment I’m in this year is definitely better than the one last year. There is a lot more space, both in the common areas and in my room. I also like being on the second floor a lot better and the window gets a lot more sunlight in too.
I usually wind up doing almost all my school work in my room. For the past few years, I’ve really come to dislike the institutional and cumbersome furniture that the school provides. The chairs are unbelievably uncomfortable and the desks are way too small. They seem to have been designed before computers were commonplace. Yesterday, I finally put an end to my misery and drove the two hours to the IKEA in Northern Virginia to get a cheap desk and swivel chair with arms. None of the office supply stores had a simple desk with a large surface area or a decent swivel armchair. The stuff they did have was way out of my price range. I finally now have enough space on the desk to have my desktop and laptop as well as space to do written work. I won’t have to shuffle everything around. The only problem will be dismantling everything and getting it home. I don’t know if the desk is durable enough to survive the move.
Right now for school, I’m in an intro compiler course, advanced operating systems, and the advanced algorithms class. I was thinking that the compiler course may not be the best choice and I would stand to gain more by taking another class, but I have a feeling I’ll have my hands full with the other two classes. This may especially be true since I haven’t had the regular operating system class. I also don’t know much about compilers at all, so it might turn out okay. Also, my schedule is great — nothing before 11 AM and nothing after 3 PM.
I guess the next few days will tell how my classes will work out.
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