Will Anderson

Well, I went to my interview with ANGEL Learning yesterday. We got a tour of the office space (wow they’ve grown in the past couple years!). We got a quick history of ANGEL, then we were given a demo of ANGEL itself (of course we were all from Rose, so they were able to skip most of the basics and show us some of the more advanced conrols available to professors). They served us an amazing lunch and then we split into different rooms for interviews. Of course, I don’t know exactly what the interviewers thought of me, but I definitely came away very impressed with ANGEL.

The last week of classes for this quarter is here. Dispite people’s usual expectations about 10^th week, my schedule really isn’t very full.

• I have a project due tomorrow, as well as an exam,
• I have a lab writup due Wednesday,
• I have a project I’m trying to finish by Thursday, and
• I have an interview with ANGEL Learning on Friday.

Hmm, maybe I’ll be busier this week than I thought.

Oh well, I guess that’s just part of being a student at Rose.

Yesterday marked a historical moment for our nation. I am proud to live in a country that can elect someone to our most honored office without regard to race. The color of a man’s skin, though so trivial, has divided our country for centuries. I’m glad to be able to witness this great step our country has taken in the journey toward acceptance and inclusion of everyone, regardless of race.

My excitement and optimism ends here.

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I’m afraid I’ve discovered that my current hobbies are apparently not only useless, but detrimental to my health (did you know you can get bad eyesight from programming in front of an LCD screen for hours at a time?!). Depressed by the thought that years of my life have been wasted trying to hone my coding instincts, I’ve decided to launch myself into a new discipline in the hopes that it will help me to more quickly forget the life I’m leaving behind. My new hobby?

Check it Out!

Perhaps if I display a humble affect I can talk the school into making this a major. Couldn’t be much harder than Civil Engineering right?

Fall break turned into Christmas with the arrival of my new toy: an 8×6 graphics drawing tablet. It’s not got a display of its own, but it hooks up to my computer by USB where I can use it on the GIMP. I’ve already done some stuff with it, but I’m hoping to get better. As I use this thing more (if I get the time after classes start again), I’ll try to post some more of the stuff I do. And by all means, if you’ve got suggestions about how to improve (or even if you just want to tell me how bad these things are) please feel free to comment

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Fall Break officially begins at 5:10 today, and most students are off to visit friends and family. I of course don’t have to travel to see my family, so I instead will get a chance to catch up on the sleep I’ve lost over the past 6 weeks. Other things I plan to do over the break include work for IRPA, more development of my web hosting software, getting ahead in class reading/homework, and perhaps a little artwork.

Other bits of excitement… my parents are getting me a graphics tablet from WOOT for my birthday, and I’m waiting on a 1 TB external hard drive which should arive in the next couple days. I also just purchased a set of Koh-I-Noor Rapidograph Technical Pens which I can’t wait to try out. It should be an exciting 4 days

Yesterday was sidewalk chalk day on campus. Following a tradition which started sometime in the distant past, students can pause between classes and do some chalk art on the many sidewalks crossing the Quad. A slightly newer tradition, started two years ago, is to write an irrational number to an insane number of digits.

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So Google’s got a cool program that synchronizes your Outlook Calender with your Google Calender. I installed it, so now you can see my class/work/church schedule online. The only complaint I have is that Google Calenders apparently doesn’t support different colors for different events. Maybe it’s something they’re still working on. Anyway, the settings should allow anyone to see the calender.

Its An Anderson - Calendar.

I received my mechanical pencils today. With twelve pencils for about 30 dollars, it’s quite a deal (compared to normal store prices). I’ll also probably not run out any time soon! Here’s a picture of them. I love the new silvery white color!

Anyway, I’m sort of geeky when it comes to pencils (and a lot of other things) but at least it keeps me off the streets!

Tomorrow is the day! Freshman classes will officially begin. Of course most of it will be no different than before, but I’ll have a much heavier load, plus I’m working 2-3 times as much this year than last year. It promises to be an interesting year!

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