Moving In

Last Friday I moved out of my Corbett dorm and into a house less than a mile south of campus. There’s a lot of different stuff to get used to, both good and bad. Bad: It’s still kind of a shock to walk across campus, see my wing of Corbett, and not think “that’s home”. … Read more

Ending the First Year

Tonight will be the last night that I sleep in my Corbett dorm room. Tomorrow, I will be packing all of my stuff into a friend’s van and moving into a house about a mile south of campus. As usual, it’s a bittersweet time. I’ve come home to these people every day for the last … Read more

Leave the debugging to the user!

Today I was writing a final paper in Microsoft Word on my laptop. It was really light-duty… Just a word processor open, nothing crazy working in the background. All of a sudden, I get a message that Windows Sidebar had crashed and was “gathering more information.” About five minutes later, I got this dialog: Really? … Read more

1 down, 2 to go.

I had my BD240 (Application Development) final today. It is definitely my strongest class, but I didn’t do so hot on the final… We had two hours to write four applications, and I messed up my pacing and only finished three. I know it hurt me, the question is just how bad… I really would … Read more

I have to get this one off my chest.

…does anybody else out there get the occasional nagging thought that Clay Aiken would make a really good cover of Shania Twain’s “I Feel Like a Woman”?