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| Midterm Over, Stress is notMidterms are over, I think I did good in all of them... But stress is far from over. Upcoming project meetings and the seemingly unbreakable wall my team is at right now stresses me out. Put some family problems on the icing I have myself a load of stress. I keep telling myself, one more year one more year but it seems this year will never end. I cannot graduate without completing senior design and I cant complete senior design if I dont get my ass in shape right now. Job scene isn't looking good. I'm such a failure. I hate it when people complain about little problems when there're bigger things like jobs (duh) they have to worry about. The last thing on my mind now is what to cook for dinner or how to score a hot date with that pretty girl in class. Of course I'm not asking for sympathy here, I know a lot of you guys are on the same boat (well, hopefully not actually). Blech at this rate my life expectancy is going to decrease. | | |
| Qian Reads The NewsCalifornia Gets Burned The Fuck Out
Did you guys see the news? There was a wildfire in Cal that dislocated more than 30k ppl! Damn, thats pretty bad. But according to the Terminator there isn't a severe casualty from the fire thanks to the brave efforts of the firefighters who Terminator said is "the bravest and best trained firefighters in the world." This made me wonder, hey I thought our heroes of 9/11 were the bravest and best trained of them all... pft, Terminator you lie. The fire is still out of control man, if its the NY fire dept the fire would have been used to light my cigarette by now.
Bush Vetoes Child Care
This is the smartest move Bush has ever done. This program takes the tax payers money and pay for childcare for the rich. As long as the childcare system for the middle class is still broken there shouldn't be any more childcare programs going up. This is a load of bull and I'm glad President Bush vetoed it. Listen to all the bums who have no idea whats going on protesting against Bush's veto. Stop being typical American retards, not everything Bush does is bad.
"Dream Act" on Senate Floor
Oh this is good. This recent bill allows minor children of illegal immigrants who were brought to the US against their free choice and subjected to the same deportation laws to have to chance to go to college or enlist in the military. I think its common ethics to not blame the child for what the parents have done, so I think this bill makes sense. Besides there kids are mostly Americanized so you can't just send em back. And the biggest reason this should pass the senate *tomorrow* is my midterm on asian immigration is tomorrow. I'm def going to call up Hill and Schumer up to support this.
Poll Says Majority of Americans Aren't Afraid of Chinese Imports
Thats right motherfuggers, all the capitalistic lies aren't really going down in our heads. One toy scare can't bring down the Asian Dragon. As a matter of fact, I'm going to go to McD right now, order myself a Happy Meal, and lick its toy.
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| Judging the book by its cover.
- If I see an asian girl and a white guy, I assume they're couples.
- Macho Asian guys wear flipflops
- If I see a nerdy looking asian girl with a nerdy asian guy, I assume they're FOBs.
- If I see a Hindu guy, I assume hes a grad student.
- If I see a white professor in a suit, hes in School of Management.
- White guy with hoodie and shorts? In a frat.
- That hindu girl is a cs major.
- Good looking Asian guys are studying business.
- Hot white girl majors in psychology.
- Girls who smoke majors in biology.
- Fat ass white girl is taking an Asian language course.
- That black girl is in or knows someone in Black Student Union.
- Black guys with glasses is an international student from Africa.
- Asian guy with a postage bag speaks Cantonese.
- Asian guy with shaved head is in an Asian frat.
- Geeky white kids have cars.
- If a few white kids starts to speak in a language you dont know, its probably Russian.
- Hindu kids work in dining halls, East Asian kids work in libraries, and white kids work ... oh wait, they dont.
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| Top 10 things I hate in team projects.10. Group Meetings:
I simply hate group meetings. I mean, its the age of the internet and meeting online is perfectly legit. Hell we might even get more things done because we're not thinking about excuses to get the hell out all the time. Nothing gets done in meetings and they just take up your time, whats the point? Just split the work over the internet and do it then piece it all together 2 hours before its due.
9. Group Hangouts:
This is even worse than group meetings. Like after a meeting you will feel morally obliged to hang with the group until one person has the balls to say "im getting the fuck outa here." Group hangouts usually involve futile attempts to get to know each other better, while being well aware once the proj is over u're never inviting the other guys to your apt for TV and drinks again.
8. Working Backwards:
There is a phenomenon in engineering called working backwards. It's a cycle of spending five hours getting a module to simulate and then breaking it in two seconds. It is especially common in group projects because you're working with other people's codes and for a second you're typing 15 lines of codes a minute then you lose your train of thought. This usually ends with you saying "fuck this" and clicking on GW.exe
7. Sharing Responsibilities:
Don't you hate it when you have to share workload with your teammates? Sure, its nice to have less workload but then you realize it would be much easier if you do the entire thing, cuz you will have to spend twice the time on how to make your side of the project work with his. You then realize you have to split everything evenly because you can't have the other person fail the class because he didn't contribute. However, if you're the "other person," its pretty sweet.
6. Positive Reinforcements:
You know how you usually give up when something is too hard? Now you can give up 2x as easy knowing your partners have no fucking clue either... so it must be the professor's fault. Whatever happened to the peer pressure that keeps us on our ass all day?
5. Pizza:
Guys, I know we've been working hard the past week, but can we order something else besides pizza? Is it some geeky engineering / cs code to have pizza for dinner for every group meeting? Oh wait nevermind, Chinese delivery ppl can't find our secret underground lab so they can't deliver. Fucking chinks.
4. Huge Ass Projects:
one engineer + another engineer != finishing a project 2x as fast. It just doesn't work that way. You just have double the confused people plus all the positive reinforcement they are giving each other prompting one another to give up sooner.
3. From Ear to Ear:
If you have worked on an engineering project, its one of the most annoying things ever. For my project I have an industry advisor and his team of pro engineers, a lovely bunch of student engineers, my faculty advisor from the university, and the professor for the course. So, industry system engineers proposes the project, which is proposed to them by their low level engineers after realizing it doesn't satisfy their customer requirements. So the system engineers attempts to explain the problem to our team of student engineers where we basically say "what the fuck?" Then during faculty advisor meeting we report on how well we're working with the industry guys and upon finding out we dont know jackshit we start blaming the industry guys for not giving a concise enough outline. The industry peeps then ask their lower lvl engineers and then tries to clarify some design details. But sometimes even the low lvl engineers don't know because they are not familiar with their own customer requirements. All the while, the professor for senior design is asking how much we've accomplished so far.... and we still have no idea what the hell we're trying to build here. If you got this paragraph you're a fkn freak.
2. Girls:
I hate girls in my team. Maybe its just luck but there hasn't been one girl in my four years of group projects who is actually competent. I remember freshman year a girl refused to touch the "yellow stuff" on the old vacuum we were supposed to reverse engineer. She was also late to half the meetings and missed the other half. I mean, I know there are very good women engineers in my class but I just haven't worked with one yet. One good thing about girls is you don't have to feel guilty not inviting them to your room for "group hangout."
1. Bad Teammates:
This is the worst thing in group projects of course. Engineering or not, if you have a bad group, the overall quality of the group drops. The group doesn't take on the quality of its best member, it takes the average. In the end, if your teammate shows up to meetings and isn't a total jerkoff and likes to bitch every other second, you should be thankful. I've had a teammate who didn't tell me he failed the prerequisite for the course till after I accepted his offer to team up while if he told me sooner I could ask the professor for extra help.
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| back on xanga.
I cannot love whom I cannot get
but should I give up
and should I forget?
people give me different advices
all applicable, but equally futile.
if I give up so easily
then whats worthwhile?
It may be unhealthy
devastating to my soul
for something out of reach
has become my goal.
But sometimes it comforts me
and end my misbehavior
to realize she who hurt me
can be my savior
but alas it has not happened
nor should I expect it
it did not lead to consolation
but rather further frustration.
as much as it soothes me
to make this poem rhyme,
my bus is almost here
Im running out of time.
So this rhyme shall be the last,
but try repeating 10x as fast : )
- Q
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