Posts Tagged ‘softeng’

Double Shotgun

Thursday, December 14th, 2006

So I finish my calc exam with two minutes to go. I put down my pencil after checking it, satisfied with what I could come up with. I felt I did pretty good, except for maybe one or two tricky ones, but that’s pretty good. So my prof comes up to me and takes a look at my exam. Then he puts it back down and says “You still have two minutes.”

It’s a good thing I’ve learned to just accept that I’ve done a good job and not obesess over half a percent, because if I wasn’t me, I probably would have been frantic in those last two minutes. It turns out that I almost, but didn’t quite get, the complex number trig integral question, but meh.

Complex numbers are like a double shotgun.

As one of my friends put it, “That’s a great metaphor to remember. Wait, no it’s not.” Oh, that crazy Chang.

Who wrote me this strange letter?

Monday, July 31st, 2006

I got mail from Software Engineering today which included basic information and stuff about courses and my real booklist with real ISBN numbers. Also included was a letter that I think is from my SE orientation leaders and it was written in markers. I guess engineers really can’t write.

Update
Holy crap, I just noticed my team’s logo on the letter, Unstoppable Snails. It’s a picture of a snail with a knight’s helmet. And its shell has spikes. Like a morning star. Actually, now that I think about it, it looks like a whelk from FF6.