Busy, busy week

Just a quick update. Apartment stuff is going. Still haven't gotten anything moved in, but craigslist will provide a savoir, I'm confident. I'm vacillating on whether to use a used mattress/bed set or buy new.... new is expensive (>$500), used might have all manner of unpleasentness that I have avoiding from a generally boring lifestyle, but is less than a third of the price. It's an interesting quandary, and one to which I could use input.

This week has been the week from hell. On Monday, a compilers program (6 hours, incomplete when due) and a database quiz were due (DB got pushed back to Wednesday). On Tuesday, an algorithms homework was due (12 hours), plus my 8-page project proposal. That got pushed back to 'whenever', from what I understand (I'll probably finish it tomorrow afternoon). Today was the database quiz and compilers homework (not complete). Tomorrow is day 1 of a 2 day test in algorithms (150 minutes total, 75 per day). So, an exciting week. I knew weeks like this would exist when I made the schedule though. I'm hoping for As in algorithms and MT, a B+ in database, and Cs or better in AI and Compilers, which would put me at about my average GPAs for everything (lowering my major GPA by a significant fraction, but I can deal).

I've put some thought lately into being a lawyer. Coding just doesn't hold the appeal for me it once did, and being a lawyer would give me a unique position from which I could affect a lot of technology related law over the next lifetime. It seems like a large percentage of the limitations currently being placed on technology are not technological but social limits. I'd like to take part in shaping those social limits. Plus, IP law evidentally pays well. Who knew?

Good day,