...could practically eat off it
Sunday, May 07, 2006
Hello people. Its been a while since the last entry, the sole reason being that I just wanted to pretend that I was studying hard for my exams whereas I was actually just disdainfully looking at countless equations that I would need to regurgitate soon. So lets get the ball rolling..
First exam: ECE 382 (Feedback systems). Yup, same anti-calculator guy but this time i cant rant about that fact. Even though the calcualators werent allowed, I didnt feel the pinch this time. This time my own stupidity let me down. For the record I have practically taken this course twice now. Once in AUs and once here in Purdue and this time I was allowed a formula sheet which I made but for some goddamn reason I didnt put basic block reduction formulas (I mean really basic) and sure as anything my mind blanked in the exam. I cursed myself to hell and back.
Second: ECE 414 (Lasers & Fibre Optics). This course is just a joke. Nobody attends the lecture and I mean nobody. Even the prof comes to the exam and tel us that he only sees 3 people during lectures but the whole 20 during the exams :P. So this course is all about long ass formulas and knowing how and when to use them. So we have to make this formula sheet which can span two sides of an A4. This time around Shiraz gets the bright idea of 'copy pasting' formulas from the pdf notes (not as text but as images since the formulas contain many complicated terms). That saved us an easy 3-4 hours in preparation for this one. The exam had some really wierd questions and equally wierd answers. I dont know if I did well on this one or not. Most probably not.
Third: ECE 438 (Digital Signal Processing). I actually like this course. Deals with sound and image processing. Lots of time to prepare and it was used well. Nothing much to say about this exam. There was one standard question that I had no idea about but then tht was the case for all midterms too. This one actually went well, relatively.
Fourth: ARAB 102 (like...Arabic..u know). As always, a joke of an exam. There were two parts to the exam. One take home and one in class. Both equally easy. This should help my sagging GPA a bit.
Overall, I gave them all I could (wht a cliche..tch) and will be happy with whtever I get. Purdue has shown me the light :D.
So, Shiraz's mom comes in two days. So without fail we had to detox our apartment. Armed with "All purpose" cleaning sprays and a magazine of brushes we got down and dirty (literally). The kitchen was taken care of by Shiraz while I vaccumed up the living room and bare floor area. Then came the nuclear waste zone, the bathroom. This one needed both agents on the floor. Flimsy gloves could barely keep the grime and hair that came off the floor, sink and bathtub.
There's something wrong with Americans. They dont believe in having a drain on the floor of the bathroom, nooooooo, that would just make it too simple to clean the bathroom. Nope, you have to get down on the floor, use insane amounts of sprays, wire brushes, other brushes and kitchen towels to pick up the gunk by hand and throw it in the bin. I say this because mops are as useful as points on "Whose line is it anyways". Thank god Shiraz was high on something to actually volunteer for the floor job while I got the bathtub. Not that it was easy or anything. West Lafayette's water is amazing. It so dirty that taking a shower in it should be a physical oxymoron.
Anyway, with enough scrubbing everything now looks squeaky clean. So clean that we could practically eat off it, but we wont, just in case. However, we both knew that no matter what, Jabeen aunty (Shiraz's mum) will still look at the apartment in contempt and have a go at our 'bad' living standards :P. Oh well, can't win em all.
Cedar Point tomorrow...woohooo
Dubai on the 13th....double woohooo
at 11:15
Not that it was easy or anything. West Lafayette's water is amazing. It so dirty that taking a shower in it should be a physical oxymoron.
Buahahahahaha! Nice line. :)
Come home.
The bathroom floor drain here in the room got sort of clogged the other day, and this coupled with the condensation from the airconditioner, resulted in me winding up with a really shallow swimming pool! No, this is not as good as it sounds.