So far...
Sept. 5, 2002
The conversion to my grad school lifestyle has been a little hectic. The Internet access in my apartment complex is a wreck. Yesterday the DHCP server stopped responding, so we ceased receiving IP addresses. This is after only two weeks of it actually working. If I had any other choice, I would take it.
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<br>Right now, I sitting in my TA office serving my requisite office hours. Since we haven't even assigned a homework yet, the expected value of the number of students stopping by is 0. At least I have a working Internet connection to keep me company.
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<br>Classes are going well. I've been up late the past few nights with homework assignments due. I should have had them done earlier, but I spent all weekend in South Bend with Kim, and didn't manage to get up the gumption to finish them early. I'm hoping I can get ahead a bit this weekend, but we'll see how that goes. Here's the breakdown for each class so far:
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<br>CS373, Algorithms: An interesting class, but with difficult homework assignments. Since I waited so long to start the first one, I didn't do as well as I should have, but it is better than nothing. I'll be sure to improve before the next one.
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<br>CS322, Programming Language Design: We haven't actually done much in here yet. We learned some Scheme, since that is the programming language of choice for the class, but we haven't actually had an assignment.
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<br>CS497, Advanced Topics in Network Protocols: Very different from the type of course I'm used to. Most of the course grade will depend on a project of our choosing, mucking around with some low-level networking protocols and simulating them. So far, we've just read journal articles and other papers and have written summaries of each one. I've got two more to read tonight.
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<br>CS391, CS491: A couple of 1/4 unit seminars that haven't actually met yet.