hmm...

Well, today my calculator is officially dead. That's not very happy, so that's all I'll say about that.

And, I got to troubleshoot one of David's mazes today. I haven't actually finished it. I should try to write a program in C at the end of this semester, which will be able to find the solution to a maze, even with conditions like make only right turns. That would probably be really hard. Maybe not, I don't really know.

Then after work me and David played two games of chess. He won both, but I did better than I thought I would. Especially in the second game, when I actually took his queen. Then made some dumb errors. Oh well, 100 times from now maybe I'll win! :D

success?

I know, I know, I haven't posted in a while. Partially because I haven't been online too often recently, and it hasn't passed through my mind. Or it has, and I've ignored it...

But today, I heard from Erika. She is one of the people who I have been working very hard tutoring this last semester. She has been working very hard on her lessons, and although she failed her final (she froze up), we both felt confident that she could place out of that course with the AccuPlacer test. She took it yesterday, and passed! So now the long journey continues. But at least it progresses!

And it made me very happy to hear this.

So Ends Another Semester....

I just took my last final. Seriously, the bonus question took me about 20 minutes, and the other 9 questions took me about 25. No joke.

The bonus was something like this. If you get it without help, I might just call you a math nerd... or dedicated.
"I was on the second floor of a building the other day. My wife says, "lets take the lift. It won't take long, it's on the third floor and coming down." So we waited, but it went right past us to the first floor. Then back up, to the fourth floor; back down to the first again; and up to the fifth floor. "Lets just take the stairs, it'll be way faster," I said. "No," she said, "It's going to continue up to the 9th floor, then come down to us." In fact, it did. How did she know it would?"

have fun with that...

Also, I just picked up War And Peace. It has HOW MANY PAGES?!?!?! (1455) well, it'll give me something to do on a certain car ride that I may or may not be taking...

Movie

I just finished watching A Walk To Remember on Youtube. Really good movie. I'd totally recommend it. If you like, I can post the links.

Also, a little-known fact about youtube videos: I'm not exactly sure about Windows operating systems, but on Ubuntu, there is a /tmp folder. Things like youtube videos get stored there temporarily, but you can navigate to that place and then copy the video, so that you have a permanent copy. Kind of a grey area on legality and morality though.

doofus

I am a doofus.

I have been running around, crying about how I don't feel loved by God, nor do I feel like I love Him. As if, when someone else loves you, you suddenly get warm fuzzy feelings inside; and when you love someone, you always have those same warm fuzzy feelings toward them. Reality check here! this isn't the case.

We know He loves us, in that while we were yet sinners, He sent His son Jesus to die on a cross for us, and to bear our sin so that we could be imputed His righteousness. So that we could have a full part in heaven with Him, instead of being shut out in the cold, alone with ourselves in hell.

And I've been running around, lamenting my lack of faith. But, it seems, "if you have faith to move mountains, but have not love, you are nothing."

Now how does that mean, "have love"? in what manner is it using "Have?" is it like, I am loved by God so I have God's love? or is it, I love God, therefore I have love?

I have no idea. Thoughts?

lol... progress quest. a zero-player game, does everything by itself.

equations etc.

Well, in Engineering 207 we were learning about polynomial regression, and how to find the coefficients. that's where you have a bunch of points that basically form a parabola or something.

So Chris Jones (excellent math teacher, I strongly recommend him if you're going to HCC and need math) taught us the really long complicated way. Then he said, "and of course you can use MATLAB to do this for you, it'll be a lot shorter...."

This was at about 3pm.

Back up to 10am: we were taught how to get that line in Excel with 1/10 of the trouble from MATLAB and about 1/1000 of the trouble involved in doing it by hand!!!

I mentioned that to Chris... he laughed and said, oh yeah... now i can make you guys really hate me by showing you this... =) (btw that's just how he talks, idk why.)


I also learned that I can store multi-variable functions on my TI89 calculator. THAT FREAKIN ROCKS!!! :) sorry about that, it was really exciting though.

test in 20 minutes. I hope it goes well! also, I'm still happy, despite the fact that campus computers hate me and my computer hates me and I just got a cut in hours at the math center where i work (even though i'm busy the whole time i'm in there...).

For no apparent reason, I'm feeling happy.

But, of course, I know the reason. And I won't tell you, either.

lol

So today, I woke up singing "This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine..."

Also, yesterday we were talking about the Yoruba in comparative religion. But first, just as Doc hung up the mask of Olorun Olodumare, we had a fire drill. His first reaction: "The Great Olorun Olodumare is angry!"

I remember hearing this song a few months ago, and I just remembered it the other day. And I thought I'd post it. It's a really great song for anyone who grew up watching Winnie the Pooh (or Pooh, for short).

Well...

I got to hang out at the Olenick's yesterday. that was eminently enjoyable. deep fried stuff and settlers of catan...

Then today... in intro to engineering design we were talking about multiviews again (still). And we were basically given two views from which you could figure out the third view (there's three views: top, front, & right profile). Then the teacher added a single line to one of the two. And, according to Mark, there were now 27 different possibilities for the third view. (I totally believe him too.) it was quite amusing. And thankfully the homework was pretty easy, unlike last class...

AMF

Awakenings Music Festival... WOW!!! lots of fun :)

I was in the third row for Third Day, headliner for Friday.
and in the second row for Thousand Foot Krutch, headliner last night.
And it was really really REALLY LOUD!!!!
and we all sang really really loud, cuz we couldn't hear ourselves anyway.
so i can't talk.
and i can hear, but if its quiet i'll get a really loud ringing in my ears.

And I got to spend two or three hours playing volleyball. and got massively sunburnt (which isn't a word?) all over my head and neck. oops...

But that was so worthwhile, even the crush when the lead singer for Hawk Nelson jumped onto the fence which was holding back the crowd.

oh lol

Today in "intro to engineering design" aka learning how to use autocad aka the torture chamber of the school, emily canapp was being very funny. she went to harford tech, and learned how to use autocad there, and really does not want to learn anything new now. or something like that. she's pretty sure she's already got it down. but her interaction with the teacher is quite amusing. and she's in my group, so i will get to continue to be amused by her throughout the whole semester!

also, apparently there are about 400 colin daniels on facebook.

Also, i have a feeling i'm going to be helping teach that class, cuz i helped out about three or four people understand what we were doing today. oh well...

"A man is afraid of learning if he will not ask a question."

umm...

Friday *something* good must have happened, cuz i remember being excited about it. but now i totally forget what it was =/

Saturday was fun. I went and talked with Jonathan Bennett and played Disc Golf. That was nice. Then I got to hang out with all those crazy young adult committee members. And that meeting was weird... in a good way. Then I went and hung out with the 24/7 cuz i'd kinda cancelled Nexus... oh well. That was mostly enjoyable too, even when Mark gave me a wet hug.

today

Using MatLab should be fun.

And using AutoCad might be fun. probably will.

And I sure hope that Comparative Religion is better than it has been so far. Cuz its kinda boring right now.

And Calc three... is called calc 3 for a reason. we do a lot of stuff in 3D! lol
but it will be interesting trying to do it.

And I'm working tomorrow :)

And I just had a bunch of Mountain Dew 2.5 hours ago, and the caffeine is starting to kick in now. XD

OOOHHH yeah, I forgot to mention... MatLab costs like $3000!!! so i'm learning how to use a program that I will never be able to afford! lol

humm...

I think that helping people out is enjoyable.

During my first day tutoring at HCC:
helped a girl on Calc2. Twice.
helped 2 other girls on Chem111 for like 4 hours straight (blah chemistry). actually, on scientific notation and significant figures. I don't know why the book assumes that everyone will know scientific notation, but it does.

And... I'm getting at least one cd out of the library in about two hours. so that's cool too.

thought

Ok, so the Robin Mark concert yesterday was awesome. Truly awesome. As was hanging out with all my friends at the concert.

And, it gave me a new understanding of the phrase, "it is well with my soul." Really, i've sung that so many times, but not really thought about what it meant. But yesterday night it hit me:

No matter what happens to my body, in the flesh.
No matter how bad my day, or week, or life is going.
NO MATTER WHAT!
I can say it is well with my soul.
God is with me! how can anything really be going wrong? he gives troubles just as much as he gives good times. If bad times come, he knows. he allowed it. he has a plan. and he will stand with me, even when i'm not paying any attention to him.

Which is just plain awesome =)

The Mime workshops were fun. Lots of other good things happened too. but no, I can't think of any right now. but i'm sure that they were totally awesome. :)

yesterday

the mime thing was fun.

then the Nominating committee was funny! MC is just hilarious. pastor craig was reading in 1Tim about the qualifications for a deacon or bishop, ie leader, in the church. when he got to the part about "they must be ... serious, ...and dignified..." MC is like, 'well that counts me out.' lol :)