Life
I am finally able to relax and take a little break. This week has been busy. Groups assignment on Wednesday along with a Russ 371 midterm, and CS 365 assignment on Thursday. My slacking over the weekend comes back to haunt me, as it almost always does.
Still no success in my search for a job; but I have to admit, I am almost definitely not doing enough. I get discouraged, think I have absolutely no marketable skills what-so-ever, kick myself a few times for all my moments of incompetence, and then lapse into the lethargy of resignation at a life of failure. How to avoid this, I am still not sure. On the other hand, doing my school work while procrastinating the job search is causing me to not slack as much.
I like the theoretical more than the practical. This is not helping me. What I would like to do is take a course or two over the summer, and read in whatever spare time develops; but financially that won't work out. So the back-up plan, assuming I don't find a job is take some courses and get a part time job, maybe on campus. Yeah minimum wage *sigh*. If I take three courses, I could apply for more student loans; but now that I have employed parents, that won't necessarily get me too much money.
Yesterday I found out about a new Pmath course. Pmath 434: Techniques in Computational Number theory. I wonder if it's any good? It seems to be a new course that is being introduced next term. My experiences with 'new' courses have been very positive, maybe I'll take this one next fall too.
Randomness: I got a call from a number I don't know in Toronto during my midterm last night. The Prof was down from Toronto, and helped me waste my afternoon by showing me a weird game where you evolve from a singular cell organism until you reach the point where you have a civilization capable of building galaxies. It is called Spore.
Still no success in my search for a job; but I have to admit, I am almost definitely not doing enough. I get discouraged, think I have absolutely no marketable skills what-so-ever, kick myself a few times for all my moments of incompetence, and then lapse into the lethargy of resignation at a life of failure. How to avoid this, I am still not sure. On the other hand, doing my school work while procrastinating the job search is causing me to not slack as much.
I like the theoretical more than the practical. This is not helping me. What I would like to do is take a course or two over the summer, and read in whatever spare time develops; but financially that won't work out. So the back-up plan, assuming I don't find a job is take some courses and get a part time job, maybe on campus. Yeah minimum wage *sigh*. If I take three courses, I could apply for more student loans; but now that I have employed parents, that won't necessarily get me too much money.
Yesterday I found out about a new Pmath course. Pmath 434: Techniques in Computational Number theory. I wonder if it's any good? It seems to be a new course that is being introduced next term. My experiences with 'new' courses have been very positive, maybe I'll take this one next fall too.
Randomness: I got a call from a number I don't know in Toronto during my midterm last night. The Prof was down from Toronto, and helped me waste my afternoon by showing me a weird game where you evolve from a singular cell organism until you reach the point where you have a civilization capable of building galaxies. It is called Spore.