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Spring break provided a nice respite from the anxieties of school. While I did not get as much work accomplished as I had wanted to, I must say that it was fruitful nonetheless. However, upon returning, to school on Sunday, I was met by an onslaught of things to do. Sunday and Monday were spent preparing for my Physics midterm on Tuesday, which, surprisingly easier than I had expected. I spent the rest of Tuesday preparing for my Data Structures midterm the next day. This Wednesday was probably the busiest one I had so far. After my classes and piano lesson, I had my Soo Bahk Do test. I think it went pretty well. I met my instructor’s master, Sa Bom Nim Colston. He was a very good teacher — after the test, I left with a much better understanding of the art. The only downside was that it ran very late. It was almost 11:00pm by the time I got home. After dinner from the local Uni Mini Mart, it was time to do the two problem sets that were due on Thursday. First I went to the library, but when they closed at 2:00am, I relocated to the Hut. When I finally finished my homework, it was 5:30am. As I was walking back to Wolman, the sun was just beginning to rise. With the hardest part of the week over, I decided not to do any work on Thursday. However, I did outline all of the courses which I want to take for the next three years. It is here, if you are interested. Well, now it’s time to study for my LADE midterm on Monday.

How could this day possibly be more perfect? It’s the last day of class before spring break and it’s 70 degrees out. It’s a bit depressing, though, everyone’s leaving except for me — I don’t leave until tomorrow. It’s also too bad that none of my friends from Pittsburgh have Spring breaks that overlap with mine. Nonetheless, despite all the schoolwork I’ll have to do, I’m still excited to go home.

This weekend has been pretty hectic — in good ways and bad, but mostly good. Friday was my suitemate’s birthday, and so a bunch of us went to dinner with his family. Also that night, several of my roommate’s friends from high school came over. But the bad part was that since Thursday, I had been stressing over a really big Data Structures project that involved writing a runtime environment. Did I mention how much I hate Java? However, today, I was in a surprisingly good mood. On Saturday night, I truly feared that I would not finish the program on time, but, after two hours of coding this morning, I managed to finish early. Of course, I uploaded the source code.
In other news, after taking my Calc midterm on Wednesday, I was quite convinced that I had bombed it, but as it turns out, I actually did quite well. Calculus III is quite the paradox.

I finally get to update my website. I’ve been so bogged down with studying for finals and finishing final projects that I haven’t had time to do much of anything. Things I’ve given up since the the work has started piling on (in the order that I gave them up): updating my website, printing photos, running four times a week, practicing the piano, karate.

On another note, I went to Lehigh University this past weekend to attend my cousin’s wedding to his girlfriend for ten years. I’ve known her since I was in second grade. I must say that it was one of the nicest weddings I’ve ever attended. However, it seemed like such a big ordeal for the people involved. I’ve decided that if I ever get married, there will be no wedding. Kari assured me that when we get married, the ceremony will be small.

It was a fun weekend, but it was only followed by a week of stress and hard work. Monday was spent finishing up a data structures project that was due by midnight. We turned it in at 11:58pm. It’s not quite complete, so I won’t post the source code up yet. After that, it was straight calculus studying. I took that test this morning and I’m fairly confident that I bombed it. Well, at least that’s one down. I still have my Physics and Data Structures finals on Monday and my Linear Algebra with Differential Equations final on Tuesday. Today will be dedicated to studying for LADE in the hopes that I might pass that class. I think it’s time to fill out a temporary change of address form. Please forward all correspondence to: Carlos Macasaet c/o Milton S. Eisenhower Library - 3400 N. Charles St. - Baltimore, MD 21218.

In one afternoon, I taught myself the first three chapters of our Calculus III text book for the midterm tomorrow. The material is easy enough, but there is so much of it. This will be one of the hardest easy tests I will take.