Archive for September, 2008

CS61A Midterm-1

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

It was doable but I did not do really well in it.
It was “easy” but I did not manage to get everything.
I really have to buck up in this course.
Results later.

EE20N Midterm-1

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

I finished the paper in time. I thought it was pretty OK.
And I was delightedly surprised when I scored 99/115! I felt great.
Until I saw this:

Alright maybe the exam was easy to MANY people. (My roommate remarked that the exam was “painless.” What sheer audacity!) I thought it was kinda challenging. =.=
But I still feel [...]

3 am message (I went to sleep earlier)

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

Subject: Listen up!
From: Babak AYAZIFAR
Date: Sep 23, 2008 2:54 am
Message:
If you are receiving this shortly after my sending it (near 3am Tuesday), then I have doctor’s orders for you:
Hit the sack and get some rest.
You’ll need a clear head for exams in EE20.
And anyone who misses the exam because of sleeping through it [...]

On the verge

Saturday, September 20th, 2008

I feel like I am walking on the very thin line between giving up and moving forward in my computer science class.
Sometimes it feels as if studying all these stuff is like banging my head on the wall.
I think I am getting used to it, but that might not be the case too. Sigh. But [...]

Of Pop Quizzes and the like

Friday, September 19th, 2008

Pop Quiz
Today was a long day… started class at eight and came back at nine at night…
And, to my surprise, there was a POP Quiz for my EE20N class today.
I concluded that the only way to survive here is to be extremely consistent and up to date with the material. Then whatever pop quiz would [...]

Computer Science

Monday, September 15th, 2008

I find the introductory course to Computer Science, CS61A very frustrating. I don’t always get what’s going on in discussions and end up browsing the web while everyone is coding their lab assignments (not graded). I sleep in the CS lectures. I have never coded in my life and it is too time consuming. (This [...]

Falling monkey

Saturday, September 13th, 2008

So the last week was pretty intense in the sense that I was getting used to the high workload which I subjected myself to.
There’s a CS programming project due Monday and I haven’t really started on it yet. Whoops there goes my weekend.
There are many interesting things which I went through and thought about blogging [...]

A short post

Friday, September 5th, 2008

Haven’t been updating for a while.
I pulled off my first all-nighter last monday, finishing a Computer Science programming homework which should have been easy but was not because I did not have any prior programming experience. Slept at 6.40 am and woke up at 7.40 am for my 8.10 am lecture. (Berkeley time is such [...]