Jolly Rancher
Word Press seems to be working out alright, granted I have yet to take the time to implement comments in my theme.
Just finished the first week of Spring quarter, my schedule is as follows:
- Cyborg Theory
- Intelligent Secure Systems
- World of Business
- Chemistry Principles I (Online) + Power Lab
Cyborg theory feels like it will be a pretty straight forward elective, with atleast fairly interesting/relevant material - but the teacher and students in the class in general are a bit… flaky? I honestly don’t see how you can have intense discussions on if an amputee with a prosthetic is a cyborg or not, or if a turtle, being an animal born with a shell that protects it counts as a cyborg.
Intelligent Secure Systems will be my favorite class this quarter I think. Its with a professor I have had previously (and enjoyed) and I have several friends in the class. The gist of it is research on creating an autonomous/intelligent intrusion detection system for network/computer security related applications/environments.
World of Business is a freshmen business class, as such, seems to be filled with plenty of freshmen. Makes me feel old.
Online Chemistry? Don’t really have any comments on it yet, but I do have this to say: Screw you RIT! We are required to purchase a kit that contains 10 cds with lecture material, and a registration code to use on a 3rd party website to do graded homework and exams.
The problems I have with this:
- The kit costs ~$130 ?
- I already paid RIT an exorbitant amount of money to take the class to begin with, why should I have to buy a ridiculously expensive kit that contains the lecture material?
- The first graded homework assignment is due Monday before 9am
Luckily, I am taking this course with 3 friends (Well one of them is a close friends roommate), so we have devised a plan. One of us will purchase the kit from the school store, with an employee discount (15%?), we will then copy the 10 cds for the other three people - and the other three people are left to buy a separate subscription to the course website for $50 a pop. Hopefully it works out.
Now the power lab for Chem Principles I is something entirely different. Usually for a science lab, you have lab once a week ( and 3 lecture periods or something ), but this lab you have once a quarter. It starts Friday afternoon on some random day, and finishes on a Sunday afternoon. So yeah, you effectively blow an entire weekend, but I guess thats better then destroying an afternoon each week. *shrug* We will see.
On hiring a new Web Developer at Work…
Today we had the last interviewie for a web development position at work (Center for Campus Life) .
Ideally I was looking for a candidate that knew PHP like the inside of their fridge, unfortunately none of the candidates so far brought this to the table. So a choice was made on which candidate was believed to be a quick learner, with the most potential. (I wont disclose who got the position until they have been notified by my boss)
Its rather disappointing because I have a lot of work to do at the CCL, and really could use some help - but I have no problems with taking a week of down time to train someone who is capable of learning what I need them to learn. Lets just hope the new hire is up to the task!
Small Project of the Week
Added the current weather/temperature to my cellphones EVDO homepage. (I don’t use the paid Verizon service, but instead my own proxy)
