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[jamned]

I happened upon the wikipedia entry on Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire". Reading the entry, it amazes me how the song is mostly in chronological order and manages to break up years into rhyming verses

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[arichi]

You've overextended yourself. What were you thinking taking so many difficult courses at once?

Part of how I got my 20+ unit quarters was by fulfilling the "easy" requirements or "fun" requirements alongside the arduous ones.

Consider my Winter 2004: ICS 142 and 164 were my fun classes. I also enjoyed Philosophy 105B. But I also had to take Math 67 and some stupid social ecology class. The other 3 made these 2 more bearable - that and I had an awesome teacher for 67 [actually, I had 4 great teachers that quarter] to make it all the more bearable.

[jamned]

I thought that I'd overextended myself moreso last quarter and that I was taking this quarter easy (ish). My schedule consists of 4 math classes and research with Wayne Hayes (which isn't too time consuming because he's fairly lax on me). This quarter seems a bit more grueling, though, perhaps because I don't have any classes that I'm taking purely for fun. My math classes are all for requirements and I feel like I "need" to do some research. My analysis class has a fun atmosphere, but that one's also the hardest.

[arichi]

What research do you do with Prof Hayes?

[jamned]

I'm writing code for him to interpolate the motion of stars. He has datafiles containing the location and velocity of a million stars at 2000 different times. I should at least learn a little bit about database management from this.