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It’s almost 1:45 now and I’m really running out of things to do instead of studying. I’ve already gone for a run, looked at and threw away a bunch of old clothes, cleaned my room, and went and bought some beer. And now I’m writing this, but I think it’s the last thing I can legimately do instead of hitting the books. I’ve got my Operating Systems and Linear Systems finals on Monday. They both really require two days of studying so I’m just going to study as much as I can and hope for the best. Maybe I should have started studying a couple hours ago instead of cleaning my room and watching basketball games.

Earlier today I was supposed to take my Network Security final, the class I’m taking pass/fail. I was a little nervous going in there because after averaging all my grades, I was sitting at about a 73. Right before the test started someone in the class asked the professor about grades and he announced that if you had accumulated at least 250 raw points on all the previous homeworks/tests then you would be guaranteed a C in the class. Well hot damn! I was sitting at 267 points without taking the final, so I packed my stuff up and left. It was a good feeling. I just wish I had known this a day or two ago when I was stressed out studying for the test.

I started writing a post about the end of school (well, almost, I still have finals left), about these last four years, the end of a great journey, blah blah blah, then I erased it all. I realized that I’m not at the end of a journey, but am just getting started. Maybe I’ll feel like writing about it some other day. While I was thinking about it though, I remembered this commercial that aired a couple years ago,

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I really like that commercial

I’m switching over to full-time at @hand in a couple weeks. This big step is the second to last in my transition to being a full-fledged adult. What’s the last step? I need to start dressing like one. Denicia was nice enough to accompany me to the mall today and helped me pick out some really sharp clothes. It was a rude awakening however to see how much these “adult” (read: not t-shirts) clothes cost. A couple hundred dollars later and I think that I’m looking quite snappy.

After spending a couple hours at the mall, Denicia and I went to Fry’s to look at iBooks for her. She’s an education major and the school requires that they all buy iBooks. She ended up buying one so I went home to help her set it up. I was only using it for 20 minutes or so but all I can say is wow. I’m jealous. Apple really hit one out of the park with OS X. I’ve never seen such an efficient, intuitive interface. I could only stick around for a little while to help Denicia through the initial setup/registration stuff. I left and told her to play around with it and that I’d be back later to try to help her with any questions she had. Well, by the time I got back she had installed her Bluetooth mouse, installed and configured AIM, and tweaked a bunch of desktop settings to her liking. Denicia is no computer-slouch, but these were tasks that would have taken a decent amount of experience to accomplish on a Windows machine. Rock on, Apple. With all the new Apple/Intel developments recently and Windows emulation software available for OS X, I’m going to seriously consider a Mac for my next computer purchase. If only the desktops weren’t so damn expensive…

Yikes, almost 2AM and I’ve got to get up for work bright and early tomorrow. School is almost over and everything is moving at blistering pace now. I’ve got a big OS project due at the end of this week, but I’ve been having problems with it. The main problem? I can’t seem to find the motivation to want to complete it. I’ve done well in the class up to this point so there is no danger of me failing this class if I get a bad grade on this one project. I remember this feeling from my Senior year in high school, after I knew I’d been accepted to UT. It’s a nice feeling