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flwydAfter more than 20 years and 7 schools, I can finally say "This is my last day of school."
Filling out an FCQ this morning, I chuckled at the question "How did this course motivate you to further study engineering." I had to think for a minute when answering "Quality of the course, compared to all your other university courses?" I mean, there's only 48 or so.
I still seem unable to finish anything until the last minute. It took me all day yesterday to utterly inefficiently write a philosophy paper. I've got four graphics assigments which are due late next week; I've got 1.8 of them done. I've got an OS project that's not nearly as complete as I'd hoped it would be at the beginning of the semester, but it's coalescing into something worthwhile.
Starting next Thursday at 5, for the first time since August of 2001, I will have no nagging academic commitments. For the first time since about age 2-and-a-half I don't know what I'll be doing in four months.
There are, of course, still some loose ends. I've agreed to take my OS project from hand-wavey simulations to actual code this January; this is less a nagging academic commitment as an academically-related obligation. I've promised to brain-dump all of my Tau Beta Pi knowledge and set up a WikiWeb (and at some point I'll need to return my office key). I should probably leave the Philosophy Club internet presence in a better state.
I need to clean out my home directory. I need to figure out how I'll access the internet once my CU account goes away. I need to get around to posting the rest of my projects and essays. And I suppose Engineering Graduation (Mackay at 8pm on Thursday) and Winter Commencement (Coors Event Center at 9? on Friday morning) count as academic commitments, but they're far from nagging :-)
But at the end of next week, what I really need to do is party -- it's Yule, after all. And Colcannon's playing at the Niwot Grange on graduation evening.
And I shall sing. "School's out for winter. School's out forever. Or at least until it's time to become Doctor Trevor."
Edit: the new-fangled editor does jack squat (including autolinebreaks) in Mozilla on X11. Whee.
Filling out an FCQ this morning, I chuckled at the question "How did this course motivate you to further study engineering." I had to think for a minute when answering "Quality of the course, compared to all your other university courses?" I mean, there's only 48 or so.
I still seem unable to finish anything until the last minute. It took me all day yesterday to utterly inefficiently write a philosophy paper. I've got four graphics assigments which are due late next week; I've got 1.8 of them done. I've got an OS project that's not nearly as complete as I'd hoped it would be at the beginning of the semester, but it's coalescing into something worthwhile.
Starting next Thursday at 5, for the first time since August of 2001, I will have no nagging academic commitments. For the first time since about age 2-and-a-half I don't know what I'll be doing in four months.
There are, of course, still some loose ends. I've agreed to take my OS project from hand-wavey simulations to actual code this January; this is less a nagging academic commitment as an academically-related obligation. I've promised to brain-dump all of my Tau Beta Pi knowledge and set up a WikiWeb (and at some point I'll need to return my office key). I should probably leave the Philosophy Club internet presence in a better state.
I need to clean out my home directory. I need to figure out how I'll access the internet once my CU account goes away. I need to get around to posting the rest of my projects and essays. And I suppose Engineering Graduation (Mackay at 8pm on Thursday) and Winter Commencement (Coors Event Center at 9? on Friday morning) count as academic commitments, but they're far from nagging :-)
But at the end of next week, what I really need to do is party -- it's Yule, after all. And Colcannon's playing at the Niwot Grange on graduation evening.
And I shall sing. "School's out for winter. School's out forever. Or at least until it's time to become Doctor Trevor."
Edit: the new-fangled editor does jack squat (including autolinebreaks) in Mozilla on X11. Whee.
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Date: 2003-12-11 11:39 pm (UTC)I thoroughly enjoyed the ritual of graduation and though, I'm sure I don't have to tell you this, I very much encourage you to go... even the long, drawn out, impersonal one at Coors. Throwing our caps up at the end was my favorite part. It helped me feel, well, graduated. You got a masters, right? Do you get to sit on the ground floor and wear a hood?