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Finals!

Finals have started here at the U of I, and I just got done with my CS 411 final yesterday. 3 more to go: Math 415 8.00am on 5/9, Phil 102 at 1.30pm on 5/9 and CS 241 at 8.00am on 5/13. I’m heading to California after that to begin my internship with Riverbed Technologies, Inc. Yay! I’m going to be working at the Sunnyvale, CA office. I can’t wait for Summer 🙂

Bacon?

While working on my CS 411 final project, I found myself listening to my “Lamb of God” radio station on Pandora extensively, somehow simple PHP-MySQL tasks and Lamb of God-esque epic metal music go great together. Like bacon, cheese and fries :D.

work Work WORK

“But what about the title of this post?” you ask. I have to finish a group project for Phil 102, a group project for CS 411, a homework and programming assignment for CS 241. And catch up in all my classes. And start prep for finals.

<emotional> I just realized that this semester will be over in just under a month. Soon I will be a Junior. A JUNIOR! I can’t believe how fast time seems to be moving. I’m having an amazing time at UIUC so far: I love my major, I’ve met wonderful people and I’ve learnt a lot about life in general. I can’t believe this will all be over in two years. </emotional>

“But what about the title of this post?” you ask. I have to finish a group project for Phil 102, a group project for CS 411, a homework and programming assignment for CS 241. And catch up in all my classes. And start prep for finals.

Life etc.

Installed node.js and MongoDB on my computer yesterday. Might play a bit with that over Spring Break. Another goal of mine is to finish my CS 241 programming assignment(implementation of malloc) and catch up in all my classes. And work on the CS 4…

Check out this amazing CSS 3 demo!

One week to Spring Break!

First: http://kathack.com/. Absolutely amazing. Need to finish my CS 241 programming assignment that’s due on 3/14. To the vim-mobile!

First: http://kathack.com/. Absolutely amazing.

Need to finish my CS 241 programming assignment that’s due on 3/14. To the vim-mobile!

3 -> 0

Finally done with the 3 exams I had this week. Only a Philosophy midterm and a CS 241 programming assignment to finish before I had to California for Spring Break. I also started work on the “great idea” I mentioned a couple of posts ago. And I di…

Finally done with the 3 exams I had this week. Only a Philosophy midterm and a CS 241 programming assignment to finish before I had to California for Spring Break.

I also started work on the “great idea” I mentioned a couple of posts ago. And I discovered this gem that will prove to be extremely useful during the dev process. Can’t wait to build this!

Two

Two more exams for me this week: CS 241 midterm tomorrow and then CS 411 midterm the next day. Someone on the CS 241 newsgroup came up with the brilliant idea of creating a Google Doc to help people study for the midterm, and it is just plain awes…

~2 more weeks till Spring Break. Yay!

But it’s so neatly formatted…AND syntax highlighting!

http://www.somethingofthatilk.com/index.php?id=135

About midterms and blog neglect

It’s not been that long since I started this blog, and already the frequency of posts is decreasing. I think I am going to make a conscious effort to start posting more; I used to enjoy writing when I was younger and feel that I should continue do…

I found out today that I’ll be having two midterms and a final in a row after a week: 3/7 is my Physics 214 final, 3/8 is my CS 241 midterm and 3/9 is my CS 411 midterm. Hopefully I won’t have a hard time if I start studying like a week or so earlier.

The CS 241 programming assignment (sorting and merging numbers in files using threads) took me slightly longer than it should have: I made s stupid mistake while coding that was leading to disastrous race conditions between my threads. I guess I learned my lesson about not coding in the middle of the night while sleep beckons. On the plus side, I did learn about helgrind and used it to debug my code. I learned a lot doing that assignment and overall it was a great experience.

I also came up with, what I think is, a brilliant idea for a website that Sam and I will be building soon. I even went and bought the domain for the website. My plan is to build it during Spring Break and launch it within the end of this semester. More details to follow.

Of Dropbox and Gmail

Over the past few days I’ve been using Dropbox heavily, and I must say it is really, REALLY awesome. I usually work on multiple computers and keeping files in sync with each other was always a pain(unless it is code, in which case it is Github all the way!). Now, I just put everything in my Dropbox and don’t have to worry about anything. I even added a cron job to back up all my important folders to my Dropbox account every night. No more missing data for me!

Another thing that I think is super useful is the Desktop notifications in Gmail. I now sign into my gmail and university accounts, shift to a different workspace/window and don’t have to constantly check my mail anymore for new messages/chat threads. Hopefully, this will up my productivity a little bit.

Just got done with my CS 411 homework. Goal for the weekend: finish my 2nd CS 241 programming assignment and study for the Physics 214 midterm. And of course, do some sweet Python coding.

Also, CSS3-rounded-borders-goodness yay!