Delusion-Elle

... said my Stats prof on Wednesday.

I saw this layout and thought it looked nice and thought that it was time for a change with the start of a new school term and all. Plus I need some inspiration for the layout that I'll make when I finally get around to it (probably never).

The weather has been rather typical as of late (a euphemism for "raining like crazy"). But does that explain why I said "leafs" instead of "leaves" yesterday? And no, I was not referring to the Toronto Maple Leafs at the time. Strange. I was also a victim of the Canadian "sorry" today when someone walked into me on the bus. I don't really see what's wrong or overly polite about saying "sorry" when someone bumps into you. For me, yes, it's automatic, but when I think about it, I think I'm apologizing for being in the way. I suppose the goof could've looked where he was going before blindly walking into and stepping on me, but maybe I should've predicted where he would be going a little better. Anywho...

I realized that I didn't blog on Wednesday about my M/W/F classes because I was all wrapped up in the WJHC fever so I'll give my general thoughts and impressions now.

Starting at 8AM I have my Stats 241 class. When I first registered for this course I was confused by the incredibly small class size: 40 people in a lecture hall for 200 and 5 people per lab section. Upon entering the lecture hall it became apparent that this was a class of more than 40 people. It turns out that STAT 241 is combined with STAT 251, which is the required Stats course for Engineering students. 241 is essentially just for CPSC students, and the numbers are different for administrative house-keeping business. And lucky me, I get to save a seat for not only my CPSC friend, but also for my good friend's ex-boyfriend, and some guy from my high school also in CPSC who I'm not even on terms as friendly as those with my friend's ex, but rather civil acquaintanceship, I suppose. From the ex, I found out that it is in fact a 3rd year Engineering course. Huh. So not only am I going to be measured against those smarty pants Engineering kids, but also OLDER smarty pants Engineering kids. Greaaaaat. I do not foresee a very good mark, though I appreciate the eye candy. Smart eye candy. Also, my prof (a pretty cool 30-something year old) mentioned the WJHC and Under-17 on Wednesday so he is automatically a win in my books.

After an hour long break, I have my second CPSC course. I'm surprised I didn't blog about this class sooner given that my prof called on me in class, causing instant mortification for me. I won't relay the exact incident, but let's just say that today was better since there was no picking on me. This is probably the toughest course I'll be having this term, I'm thinking, since I will have to learn another programming language as well as completing projects in this language. At least I'm on good terms with my genius friend and he's nice enough to help me, though I know my stupidity irritates him sometimes. Today I sat with him, my friend also in Stats & CPSC 213, and my genius friend's friend who is a COGS student and is also in my Stats class. COGS actually sounds rather interesting as it is CPSC and Philosophy combined. Fancy that. Anywho we were a somewhat motley crew in class. Woo ethnic diversity and varying levels of stupidity!

I find it highly unfair that my genius friend (who is doing honours and a combined major) doesn't have to take my Stats course. If anything I thought that honours students would have to take more and harder courses!

As I was trying to get in the mood for doing some reading for Stats this evening, I came upon this video which shows the progress of 200 countries in the past 200 years. (And I know that eBaum's World is a rather suspect website in terms of some of its content, but I'm not a regular there and found this interesting:)


This weekend's to-do:

• Music 101 assignment #1 (notate answers using software)
  
• Read Stat 241 textbook
  
• Read CPSC textbooks (Comp: 2.2-2.3/3.1-3.4, 3.9.3) (4.5-4.7, 5, 6.1-6.3, 6.5)
• Read Music 121 textbook
  
• Prep labs (Stat/213/221)
  

And then the NHL All-Star Game is coming up January 28th! That's always fun to watch. :)
Back to work!