Mike Nicholson

Well today wasn't super bad. I'm taking a break now between midterm in 256 (which was pretty easy as it turns out.. which is good because I need an A to get a good grade at all in the class) and studying physics. I was going to work in a study group, but the place we were going to meet at is closed.

I was able to sleep for about 11 hours last night, and aparently it was enough time for some major healing to go on. My rib feels better for the first time, rather than worse, and the gash in my hand that I acquired while working on the car finally scabbed up after being an open wound for three whole days. At this rate I might get to exercsie in two weeks! unfortunaly that will be too late for physics class and put me even more behind on sr design! Oh well I'll live

I think I need something new to take the edge off my stress while I recover from the broken bone. I can no longer exercise so I think I might try my hand at dating again. Although it seems kind of silly to date for just three weeks (especially to the all-or-nothing philosophy present at SCU concerning dating/relationships), I think it might be fun and get my mind off stress. So all of you single women out there that I know should watch out.

Ok that's all for now. Bye.

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Stupid cracked rib its all your fault that i'm stressed out. If it weren't for you, i could exercsie and umm breathe without pain...

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me very sad tonight. I was just called in to work a few min ago but decided not to go in. I quit instead. The stress of this term has finally caught up to me.. I thought I could take any amount of stress. Apparently I was more dependent on exercise than I thought. Once I broke that damned rib and was (and still are) unable to exercise, stress caught up quickly.

I have no work done on my sr design. Nothign at all... My excuse is that requirements are in flux (which they are) and I have gotten no specs from the EEs (which I haven't) but I really am just struggling so much to keep up in other classes (only 3 mind you) that I cannot find time to work on it.

My calculator broke an hour ago to boot. I now need to buy a new one for my physics midterm. I get to spend $60 for two tests... how sad.

I reluctantly said I could do the cultural show for CSA, but workload is too high and I am forced now to back out. What I wonder though is even now that I am making all this extra time, will I actually be able to focus enough to get work done now that stress has consumed me? :(

Oh yeah I also got laid off from my summer job yesterday.

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I'm in class right now. It's been a sleepy day! I went to bed at 3am because some coen youngins needed some bailing out, which I did for them. They better get As on those midterms now! :)

class is boirng as normal so I'm making time waste.,... i mean I'm wasting time. He is going over questions for the midterm that I already know how to do. I hope i do well on this test... I need to or I will get a bad grade in the class

Icik after this i just remembered I have to go the newspaper and try to fix the printer... oh well its a job i guess. I cant wait for this year to end and I can have one normal job and make lots of $$ and not have to study as much!

Ok that's all for today... have fun

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Caring.... College students seem to do a lot of it. If you want proof just look at some of the blog's in my read list. I however don't care about much of anything. I don't have an opinion on the war in Iraq because I know it would take me 4 or 5 hours a day of constant research to even approach an educated opinion, and this is ignoring the fact that there is so much that our government knows but cannot tell us now. I don't care about the GALA - MCC possible merger because I think they deserve to have an office, while at the same time i see the logistics of an anonymous organization holding events in a very open space, next to a high traffic route, as a nightmare. I figure that they can make that choice for themselves, without having any enormous impact on me. As a computer geek I don't even care about Microsoft. I figure their quality index during software development is low, and sadly they own the industry, but I figure they will self destruct someday just like IBM did.

These are just a few examples. I seem to only really hold an opinion on gun control and SUVs, the two issues I seem to have the least control over, and as a result am not very vocal about.

Everyone else at my school seems to either care about higher truths and principals and they argue about things like the ethics of this and the morality of that. If they don't care they appear to be too busy to care, studying just about every waking moment.

I sometimes wonder if my old boss goes to work every day and worry about the homeless man he passed on the street, or the massacres that still persist in Cambodia, so far away. Does he even worry about the ethics of the business dealings or technical projects he works on?

My gut instinct is an overwhelming no. Is my gut right that no one in the real world really cares? Will all these SCAPPers and MCCPBers graduate and stop caring? If so would that make me smarter than them for realizing that no one cares earlier on and adjusting, or just that much more depraved for giving up on the unfortunate people at the bottom of the economic food chain and placing all my faith in some kind of socioeconomic modernizatoin theory to take care of them generations or evne centuries from now?

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Mmmm ice cream

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Hey everyone. One quick entry.

Someone said I don't complain in my blogs so I'm here to set it straight... For maximum efficency I will put them in a list:

• I have no one to live w/ next year (Since most of my friends are graduating) and I don't want to live alone :(
• My teacher speaks engrish and I have a 58 in the class so far... crap i need ot do well in the class
• My senior design project is going very slowly and I might not be able to go out for spring break if I don't get moving on it soon! Please reply to my emails pascal!
• My feet hurt, the wind is moving my hair, and I don't know if i can complain any more!

That's all for now

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I just felt like typing more... ok I'm done

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I am sleepy and bored, so I thought I'd take the opportunity to blog. It's been a week or so since and hmm whats happened...

Oh yeah I went on the international club ski trip. It was a lot of fun, although the group was not as tight or easy to integrate with as the CSA (ironically). I moved faster than I ever have before on my snowboard, and I found a great place to get on the mountain too! I'll never again have to wait in long lift lines. I'm still short my sleeping bag and cell phone, but only because I'm too lazy to go pick them up from ppl who ended up w/ them somehow.

The quarter is starting to wind down already. I registered fro my last undergraduate class today. Feels strange... It's almost over. I will miss the people who graduate, but luckily my effort to meet youngins has been very fruitful and I should have plenty of undergrads to hang out with next year even if they are mostly members of a club I don't really belong in ;).

Ok that's all for now. Wasn't that an amazingly disjoint blog? yay

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