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April 23, 2005
One more week of classes
I have one more week of classes, in which I must complete group projects in Software Engineering and Machine Learning and an individual paper in Software Engineering. I would feel better if it weren't for that Software Engineering paper. I need to get my information sources compiled tonight.
Last week, I attended the math awards banquet. I really wasn't expecting much considering that I only took one math course this year not counting the Problem Solving seminar. But, this year, they got a lot of new money for awards based solely on academic merit, which benefitted me and several other students. The food at the banquet was good. I ate vegetarian lasagna, a baked potato, corn muffin, salad with ranch dressing, and a slice of chocolate pie with chocolate crust. And I skipped the appetizers.
I spent quite a bit of time working on the Red Cross project, and there are a lot of things that need to be done on that. For those who spend their time in warmer climates, you might like to know that it snowed here today. At least, I think it was snow, but it definitely wasn't rain, and it was cold out. Ohio State kicker Mike Nugent was drafted in the second round of the NFL draft; pretty good for a kicker, but he deserved to go higher.
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April 16, 2005
High School Programming Contest
I helped out at another high school competition on Saturday. This time, it was the high school programming competition hosted at Miami University. In the past couple weeks, I had solved some of the problems to ensure that they were correct, and on Saturday, I was one of the competition judges (although there is not a whole lot of decision-making involved in being a judge).
In the past week, I also got a job working on the Red Cross project. It's in large part a choose-your-own-hours type of a thing, and the job mostly consists of just writing code. I thought it would be a good idea to get some experience with Microsoft Windows. Yeah, and if any of my loyal Taco HTML Edit customers are reading this, I apologize.
In the upcoming weeks, I have quite a bit of work to do, including a Software Engineering final paper and team project and a Machine Learning team project.
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April 9, 2005
OHMIO
Dr. Pritikin invited me to go to the OHMIO high school math competition with him, so I went to Capital University in Columbus with him today. I saw all of my math teachers from Lakota West (including Ms. Rhein and Mrs. McDaniel), so it was worth it. I also saw that Lakota West is still dominating the math scene in Ohio.
I realized today that the birthday of my brother, Adam, had come and gone, so I sent him an Amazon gift certificate with this self-admittedly clever message:
Happy B-day! Sorry it's late, but for that I upped the usual $20 to $25, so you should really feel lucky!I've got a lot of things to do over the next few days, but it's not overwhelming. I think that I've found a place in Oxford that I can sublet for the summer, but we'll see how that works out.
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April 2, 2005
Over the Rhine
That's where I went today on a service trip for my Honors 280 course. In the cold, rainy weather, all I did was clean up a muddy garden and move some boxes; not exactly the enlightening experience that I was supposed to have. I had to get out of bed at 6:45 this morning to leave for the trip. I just finished solving a couple of the problems for Miami's high school programming contest to ensure correctness. This semester, I've been going to Navigators, and after the church service last night, we had a scavenger hunt around the Miami campus and uptown, which was kind of fun. I have a Machine Learning test on Tuesday, and Ice Skating is getting kind of tough; pretty much all of the skills we are learning now involve skating backwards. I still need to call places about a summer apartment.
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