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Heading Home

Tue, 19 May 2009 00:34:08 GMT

I am currently on my way to home (rather, Joshua's home) and I will be at home by noon(?) tomorrow. Don't know when I can hang out 'cause there are karate things and Cape Cod things going on, but give me a call.

Who still needs to finish packing?

Sun, 17 May 2009 22:03:53 GMT

Kempy still needs to finish packing.

Graduation! And 213...

Sun, 17 May 2009 21:50:39 GMT

Happy Graduation and Congratulations to everyone who's graduating!!!! We'll miss you if you won't be in Pittsburgh next year!!!

I would also like to make sure that I'm not the only person to not receive a 213 grade yet. No one else has either, right?

Some Stuff To Do.

Fri, 15 May 2009 19:12:56 GMT

I have some stuff to do:

~~Today:~~
- ~~go to the hub to do something for my mother~~ (didn't quite happen...)
- ~~finish helping 8 pack~~
- ~~start helping ME pack~~

~~This weekend:~~
- ~~find my ID card~~ and pick up a package
- ~~finish helping ME pack~~
- ~~get my stuff / Rich's stuff to storage~~
- ~~get the rest of my stuff to Ticky~~
- ~~go out to dinner tonight with 8's family~~
- ~~go out to dinner tomorrow with 8's family~~
- ~~go to graduation~~
- ~~get stuff that I'm taking home packed~~

Monday:
- go home with Joshua

The next few weeks:
- see everyone at home!
- go to Cape Cod
- come back to Pittsburgh

This summer:
- do some work type things (for those of you who don't know what I'm doing for the summer, it's iPhone App development)
- have a good time and learn interesting things
- eat / cook lots of good food

wat?

Fri, 15 May 2009 15:33:04 GMT

B in 312
B in Econ
C in Set Theory? (E-mailed Cummings about what the hell I got on the exams... Maybe he forgot to grade my midterm? Because I did pretty well on the homeworks and thought I did really well on the final and alright on the midterm...)
Nothing yet in 213... (they still haven't graded our proxy labs!!!)

Aspirations

Tue, 12 May 2009 19:05:35 GMT

Given final exam grades, here's what I'm hoping for in my class... I wish these were so much better:
Set Theory - A? (Maybe? No fucking clue, 'cause I never got my grade for my midterm and there's no pre-determined curve... Really don't think it should be less than a B)
213 - C (I think I needed to get a 60 on the exam to get a C... I think I might have gotten about that, hopefully with a mild curve, I will get a C, I think I needed something like a 92 to get a B.... Yeah, that's not happening...)
312 - C (Holy shit that exam was terrible, let's hope I get a C)
Econ - B (I think it's pretty hard for me to not get a B)

I really need to figure out some way to improve my exam performance or get extra time or something. I never finish exams and I find I am rushed for time even on the questions I do finish. I had less than half of the 213 exam finished 2 hours into it. And consequently ended up with a few questions unanswered. I just don't know why I can't do exams faster... In high school algebra, I did tests twice (literally, I got two copies of the test) and was done both of them before anyone else had finished their one copy. I wish I could do that with college exams...

I also wish I knew what to study. Some classes it's straightforward like 213 and most math classes. But 312? Yes I know how to prove safety and write an evaluator and type-checker. Will that help me at all on the exam? No. Another thing about 312 is that the syntax is just horrifying. I know what the rules should be, but do I know how to write them? Not in some cases with memory, apartness, "it doesn't matter what order these come in," etc. And I think that a non trivial amount of the time that I wasted on that exam was that I didn't know how to write down what I wanted to.

Economics is dumb and not allowing students to ask questions on the exam is even dumber. I really wish Cummings would have e-mailed me my midterm grade for Set Theory so that I would have had some idea of how I was doing...

Arg blarg I am Kempy and I am worried about my grades. (Surprise? No.)

Things To Do.

Fri, 08 May 2009 23:08:27 GMT

Things to do:

~~study for set theory take-home final~~
~~apartment finances~~ / collect money from everyone in the world
~~make sure greta gets her checks from krieger and sam~~
~~do take-home set theory final~~
~~watch dollhouse~~
study for 213
~~study for 312~~ (didn't really happen?)
not fail 213 final
~~not fail 312 final~~ (didn't do this.)
~~grade for 111~~
~~grade exam for 111~~ (not doing this?)
get paid / turn in remaining time sheets
pass all of my classes
pack up and move shit to storage / ticky / 7
move stuff to ticky while trying not to drive ghanners / other residents crazy
go home
come back to pittsburgh and do some stuff

Easy, right?

EDIT:
Making progress... sort of...

I'm sick of dealing with your shit.

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 06:33:48 GMT

I don't like it when people are mad at me for things that are their own damn fault.

Scheduling

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:02:43 GMT

Definitely Taking
Constructive Logic [15-317] (9 units)
History of Mathematics [21-350] (9 units)
Number Theory [21-441] (9 units)
Elementary Italian [82-161] or Elementary Spanish [82-141] (12 units)
<insert another class or research or some combination thereof here> (up to 18 units)

Classes I Could Insert There
PNC [15-359] (12 units, Mark says it's a bad idea)
Real Analysis [21-355] (9 units, I need to take it at some point...)
An apps course (suggestions welcome)
Putnam Seminar [21-295] (3 units, It's a math competition thing)
Competition Programming [15-295] (3 units, It's a programming competition thing)
Research with Carol Frieze (No idea how many units, finding out about that tomorrow)
Other suggestions? (No, I am not taking Compilers or OS next semester don't even think about suggesting it.)

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I really want to take a Robotics course (which counts for the apps requirement!), but the ones that seem interesting are at 9 AM on T/R or conflict with my 15-317 recitation. I think that I'd like to have another CS course so that I can learn to do something useful... All of my CS classes are 312, 317, and then all the 100 and 200 level ones we're required to take. It would be good to learn something relating to the real world... Anyway, this is what my schedule looks like now. Suggestions? Plz?

Grad Student Appreciation Week

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:33:40 GMT

To all the grad students I know (Ghanners, Chris, William, others who I am forgetting?),

I appreciate you! Keep doing grad-student-y things and being awesome.

~ Kempy :D

I have a job!

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:09:49 GMT

I have a job! For the rest of the semester... Now I need to find one for the summer and one for next year!

Also, blaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh.

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:36:46 GMT

Today is the first day of Spring and there were flurries coming down. What is wrong with Pittsburgh? It was 70 degrees two days ago...

In other news, there exist some old people and potentially at some point, Sam's friend Joe? Though last I heard, he was lost downtown.

This post is turning out to be a list of short unrelated points, so I'll continue with that...

We made peppermint ice cream! It was delicious and will be done again soon. Suggestions for weird ice cream flavors? So far we have pomegranate and grapefruit and red wine with chocolate chips as suggestions. Anyone willing to bring over half and half or weird flavorings is welcome to make ice cream.

In other news, I read Ender's Game. It was fabulous. And then I read Speaker for the Dead which was also excellent. I just started Xenocide. I also read Watchmen and would very much like to see the movie.

There is CtFwS!

I think that's all I have to say...

One Year.

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 21:15:33 GMT

To do:
Econ due Monday
312 due Tuesday
213 due Thursday
Set Theory Midterm due Thursday

Econ Midterm on Wednesday
312 Midterm on Thursday

Doing:
Econ?
213?
312?
Updating LJ.
No,but actually Econ now...

Done:
Went to a Brahms and Dvorak concert with Car (who was the only properly dressed one of the bunch), Joshua, and 8.
Went to The London Cuckolds with 8.
Went out for crepes this morning with 8 for our anniversary.

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Also to do:
Find a job...

Also doing:
Having a phone interview with Palantir on Monday!
Going to PL group meetings.

Also done:
Signed a lease!

ZOMG

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:04:10 GMT

KRIEGER TOTALLY DID SOMETHING!!!
ZOMG!

Lolgoogle

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:09:03 GMT

Some Things.

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:46:51 GMT

Yesterday was a pretty good day.

We have a new President!

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:00:42 GMT

Missed the live feed cause of my computer being retarded. But, it'll be replayed on CNN tonight. CNN party in 204 anyone? 9pm.

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:38:44 GMT

Jake and Philip dick around at odd hours of the night.

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 03:30:07 GMT

Did anyone else read some article back in December about Kim Jong-Il being dead? Because apparently now he's not? Or something... 8 and I read an article, together, that said that Kim Jong-Il was dead and that his successor had contacted South Korea to begin peaceful negotiations. I don't think we're crazy. Neither does 8. But I can't seem to find anything about this article... Perhaps it was retracted or a joke or something... But I can't find anything about it on the internet!!!

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 02:16:03 GMT

I can not wait to get out of here. Back to my own life. Away from my mother (and father). Ugh! It can't happen soon enough.

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:09:42 GMT

What to do on New Year's Eve:
a) Go play D&D with the guys at Tom's house
b) Hang out at the Gerber's with mes parents and les Gerbers and les Latheys
c) Stay home alone
d) Find something better to do

Since d does not appear to be a viable option, I'm probably gonna go with a. What says Happy New Year like rolling a D20?

Also, everyone seems to be all introspective on LJ right now. Which I guess makes sense, new year and all. Here's my evaluation of 2008: Dated a boy I had dated before (silly me), that ended, found an even wonderful-er boy. Freshman year ended. Worked as a computer camp counselor. Missed the wonderful-er boy. Jack and Krieger visited. Summer ended. School started. Had myself a boy again and a shiny apartment. Didn't do quite as well in school as I had hoped. I need to stop being such a goddamn lazy procrastinator. There was a meme. I still haven't finished it. I will! Some day... Christmas break happened. I saw some friends. That was good. This has been a good year in everything other than grades-wise.

New Year's resolutions: Stop being such a goddamn lazy procrastinator. And do more karate / rock-climbing / ITG (zsparks, interested?) / swimming. Clean up the kitchen sooner after I cook so I don't drive Sam crazy. Hang out with more people than 8, Jack, and Greta. Be nicer to people.

Anyway, Happy New Year!!!!

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:26:36 GMT

Dear 8,

If you get this, please call me.

Love,
Kempy

Sat, 20 Dec 2008 07:43:27 GMT

I promise to answer DB's questions and ask the rest of y'all questions soon. I started doing that and then decided to try and figure out my schedule for next semester and then got distracted by nwf and Ghanners.

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:03:34 GMT

Sweet! I probably just failed my calc exam, but I'm no longer wait-listed for Algo next semester!!!

Stuff

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 15:00:58 GMT

Done:
- grade homework 9
- enter grades for homework 9
- grade homework 10
- enter grades for homework 10
- LaTeX paper for Math Software
- Study for Calculus (sort of did that...)
- Calculus Final on Monday morning (ugh...that did not go well...)

To do:
- rejoice a little cause I'm done and pray I did alright on finals...
- proctor 15-111 exam
- grade 15-111 exam
- come up with ~25 questions for the LJ meme...
- get some sleep!!!
- make all the pumpkin / apple butter jars look pretty with ribbon and paper
- get some damn exercise
- pack...
- go home!

Also, FUCK YEAH!!! A in Structures!!!!!!!! =)