Week Zero

That sounds … rather more dramatic than week one. “Ooh. What is week zero,” my potential reader will wonder, and click on the link in his/her RSS aggregator. Imagine his/her disappointment, however, when s/he discovers that “week zero” is only a more spicy title for “week one,” which is, predictably, a blog post about the first week of spring semester.

I’m working in the Student Labs again (or, at least at the moment), but I’m not sure if I can hack it (so to speak … there will be no literal hacking!). Between taking 21 credit hours (and, unlike last semester, I actually think I’m going to stick it out with all seven classes), running the Procrastinator, and ramping up my involvement with ASMSU, and thinking about possibly entertaining a bit more of a social life this semester than last…

I guess it’s the fixed hours thing. It’s the fact that I didn’t set my schedule. It was set for me. Arbitrarily. It’s the fact that has gotten 20 inches of snow in the last 24 hours, and it’s a $15 ski day, and I’m here in the Student Labs, posting about the snow on my blog. There’s something wrong with that. I rather miss the freedom to just post a note on my door that said, “there’s 20″ of new snow at Bridger. I’m skiing. You should be too,” and be done with it. It really puts a damper on the whole only having one class on Mondays and Fridays thing.

Oh, and class. Sheesh. Last semester was easy. This semester … I’m going to have to work. I have two classes that are sincerely going to slap me around (a bit with a large trout…). (That’s the nice way of saying “kick my ass”.) But, that’s exciting. As long as I find time to go to class and do homework. Which seems like it should be a pretty high priority … must have got in to some bad habits, last semester.

It’s also going to be a difficult semester because I’m going to need to do a lot of math … which is something I’m not particularly good at. I sat down last night to do a math review exercise for my Stats class … and realized that I have no idea how to find an integral. Despite the fact that, yes, I did take Calc 182, and, yes, I did spend an entire semester finding integrals … no idea. Time to bust out the old math book, I suppose. Ug!

So far, so good, though. Aside from the fact that there’s 20″ of fresh powder at Bridger, and I’m not there. In fact, I may not get there at all this weekend. Might have to cancel/move the Procrastinator meeting on Sunday to … another day.

Well. Integrals beckon. (Ha. That’s a lie. Integrals threaten. That’s better). Until my next shift in the labs…