Hello, karaj amikoj,
Kiel vi fartas? ;)
Lol, okay, I was speaking Esperanto, anywho, onto matters of BUSINESS!
(No not international business, but like, noo no no! Not small businesses either! Well, unless you consider each individual person to be their own small business, where they divide their own time into asset allocation, tax deductions and payment, and are their own advocate for their company and its relations to other companies, whether actual larger companies or other individuals as well. Which is an interesting way to view people, but isn't what I meant at this time presently)
*Ahem*, that was a mouthful! lol
Probably lost some of ye lily-livered folk, eh? xD
Let me say some things..
I am in my second semester of college.
The classes I am currently taking are Differential Equations, Object Oriented Programming, History of the Modern World, Japanese 102 business, and English 102 critical composition.
Yes, I am a very busy person haha :)
But it is all good work, all fun and whatnot. OOP is easy peasy, I was doing OOP before I even came to college, although I was never taught it nor really much about it.
I love OOP programming, it is so much fun, and lends the programmer a lot of organization and power.
I do wonder how it limits or is excessive in some respects based on what kind of programming you are trying to do with it, but that aside I find it to be wonderfully powerful and intellectually liberating.
I have started a job as a Math tutor in the Math Tutoring Center (math lab) at my school, and I am certain this is the greatest job of my life.
Seriously, I love math, love Calculus, and love helping people.
And I have all my math major buddies in here, what more could I ask for?
:)
In the meantime, since I took cis 101 last semester and we learned Perl, I decided to use it to build some websites and resources for my own personal reviewing sessions and for other students who wish to have a source of information from a student's perspective and verbage.
I'll post a link here as it becomes more complete, right now I am still fleshing out the concepts, and since I don't know anything about file reading and writing in Perl I don't have a sophisticated manner of writing the actual content for the webpages. (They are stored in arrays at the very beginning of the document, not that there is anything wrong with this, but it makes the one document cumbersomely large.)
Apparently we will be doing some basic reading and writing to files in Java next week, which makes me very excited :P
That would be sweet for game making, or any sort of sophisticated application that I could desire to have made.
Oohhh ohh, don't get me started on language learning. @o@
I am going to have to wage all-out war on Japanese, since two days of the week I have to leave really early to go to OOP instead of Japanese (Long, dramatic, story short: they collide, and I go to OOP rather than Japanese)
Today was a duel-quiz day, and I did not do as good as I wanted to.
I simply didn't know some answers, and the others I wasn't certain if they were correct.
That is absolutely unacceptable.
I hate not doing excellent, I will not stand for it.
From here on out I pledge to devote so much time to Japanese study and mastery that I will find the tests laughably easy, and will get ahead of the course schedule.
On a side note, I am not sure how this fits in with my war declaration upon Japanese (class), I am learning Indonesian right now and Esperanto and a little French.
I should learn some Spanish too, but I don't know.
I think highschool kind of made me lose the passion that had for it.
Who knows?
Interestingly, I have friends who speak Indonesian, Japanese, and Spanish on campus out here.
But I do not have any French friends, alas.
But that is not such a big deal, I have a French speaking sister, and a Canadian French friend :P
(Both are awesome, although I am trying to learn France French lol)
One of my tutor friends, wait no two of them, speak Indonesian :D
That is going to be a whooolee lot of fun :)
Oh btw, I am writing this from my job, we are allowed to work or study a little if no-one needs help, but we are supposed to periodically parole and ask people if they need help.
I have a feeling that this post is becoming far too long...
Oh well, I'll add in images later :D
Things on my mind that make me uber excited, which I will most definitely (or likely) devote entire posts to in themselves:
->Sword Art Online, Perhaps the single greatest, most beautiful, anime I have ever seen
the execution, the characters and their actions, the emotions, everything is so beautiful and pure, the entire premise fills me with joy and a feeling of excitement, and and and :)
Its hard to explain how and why I find it so beautiful, but perhaps if you watched it and if you share some of the same things that I value, you too will be moved by such a beautiful existence.)
It is akin to Accel World, where their souls became mature after continuous dives, where they spent years in-world, but only days outside.
That is spine-chillingly beautiful, and is extremely compelling.
->Accel World
Know that I saw Accel World before SAO, and it is also exemplarily beautiful, and has a lot in common with SAO.
However SAO is purer than even Accel World, and is more relatable to me in many ways.
One thing that Accel World has that SAO could of had would be the time-slowdown I mentioned in the prior paragraph
However, SAO has a real virtual world with even more meanings and lines blurred betwixt the real and the virtual than Accel World does, (well in some ways, in reality they both are equally real and amazing, perhaps I merely think what I do because I prefer SAO to Accel World, Accel World being geared towards fighting more than anything else possible in such a virtual reality)
I am tempted to go into Bio-engineering just to see if I can bring this possibility, this beautiful and powerful possibility, into our present reality as soon as we can manage the advancements.
I have a feeling it will come within 100 ~ 200 years, but I don't think I will live that long, sadly.
(well, 100-200 years.. I mean, 100 is kind of the limit.. lol)
->Occulus Rift
this is the closest thing we have to NerveGear or BurstLinkers in modern life, and it is going to be awesome.
Not quite the same, not nearly close enough I think, but still awe-striking.
Think of beautiful virtual worlds and landscapes, all rendered in 3d?
With head-tracking? :DDDD
*dies of happiness*
It will be interesting to see if Second Life gets integration with it or not, and what applications it sees.
There is a lot more I could talk about, but mehh..
I'll save it for another day :)
Thanks for reading! :>
Rock on, and keep your head high, your ambitions ambitious, and your work ethic strong!
~James
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