So yeah… it’s been a while hasn’t it? I think this has been the longest that I haven’t written an entry since this Xanga’s conception (tell me if I’m wrong). I’ve been so busy over the past few weeks; so busy yet so unproductive, spending so much time doing nothing while I’m supposed to be doing (lots of) other things.

The second year of college is over… another crazy thing to happen so soon. Half of college (assuming I make it out in 4 years) is over already… and I remember in high school, at this point, officially ending the first half (after sophomore year) felt like it came too soon. There’s yet another year leaving and another batch of kids coming, and we’re still stuck somewhere in the middle. I guess I should be a little wiser now right? Pssh…

If you ask me how this year was, I’d probably say that it felt like a waste. Unlike last year, in *numbers* the memorable/learning events were no comparison. The 2004-2005 school year is probably going to go as one of the best school years of my life. The 2005-2006… maybe the toughest. Hopefully… I’ve had enough lessons to learn this time around. Definitely on that list is time management… as is the fact that orgo sucks.

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I’ve just found out that I’ve played 85 hours of Oblivion directly… counting savegames, probably well over 100 hours of gameplay since getting it three weeks ago. I guess that’s alot? A LOT of time that could have gone into more useful things… (like studying more???). I mean, there’s nothing like a good game, but Oblivion is really… an oblivion for time; the story is decent, but definitely shouldnt take so much time to get through. And leveling-up just gets annoying in this game.

There IS one game that I’d most definitely play though…

Star Trek Online!  MMOPRG!

This is the concept that I’ve been thinkin about since I heard of and MM game, and only NOW is it that we’re ready for it. Well… in a couple of years anyway. With the beta scheduled for release in the summer of 2007, it’s still a long ways away. If anyone cares…

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This is the song of the moment for me; something about the beat and the piano, and of course, the words give me a moment to think about what the distant future… and I mean the *way* distant future when we’re all old, and everything that we’re going through now is remembered only with nostalgia… yeah…

“One thing’s true all along… you don’t know what you’ve got till its gone”
– Always a lesson to remember.

So… (it looks like this is gonna be one of those entries that has a lot of ‘so…’s in it) China in 7 days … I dunno, both excited and anxious for leaving, as expected. On one hand, study abroad–even if only for a summer, will be a great experience… but then again, I hate leaving things at home (I’ll miss Sq!). This is a BIG chunk of my summer, 2 months. I always wondered how everyone else did it; going to Asia for the bulk of summer, then coming back. Don’t you ever just want to *stay* home? The longest I’ve ever been away from around where I live is two weeks (even if where I lived changed every 3 years)… so the 7.5 weeks starting with the 26th… mleh. Once in a life time, right? I guess I can’t miss it.

I still think this will be a good experience on all fronts, being far away, more independent at least, than last summer; though honestly, I almost wish that I’d applied for internships instead. Working, I wouldn’t mind. Not that I won’t be working. Every summer, I’ve dedicated myself to being *productive* and making the time as meaningful as it could be. Though… I think I could learn to be more idle when I should, this summer so far has been… well, productless.

Except this piece of crap from earlier:

Front Profile View

USB Cord

Top View

An honors project, it took till Monday, and at least 20-30 hours to finish. It’s a little more jagged than the actual product, (the Logitech Mx518) but it works for the prof, so it works for me. And the price was that even till this morning, I was hallucinating Autodesk Inventor dimenion lines…

So anyway… THIS summer, is going to be VERY productive. I have a TON of stuff to do/get started on, including… a co-authored website, books read, movies/anime watched, CS learned, tons of other stuff…!

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I have decided that I’m going to relax on Tuesday (5/23)… before having crazy fun on Wednesday, perhaps enjoying newly endowed legal powers! I think this is the most excited I’ve been for a birthday since… 18 (on which, I did very little)! Yeah, I’m awesome like that.

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Okay, I’m getting tired… the end is near…

Johari window!

JOHARI WINDOW! – http://kevan.org/johari?name=Skyrien

Click it and do my Johari!

And now… face the POWER!

Your Power Level is: 69%

Let me note, that there are only two things on my mind this week:
Sq! and ECE 210 Exam 3. Yep. So it’s like this and .

A Break in the Cycle
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

Yeah, so instead of playing Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, I’ve decided to write in my xanga. So addicted: I have three exams this coming week (ECE 210, ECE 290, and GE 101), and I’m not nearly ready for any of them. Man, but since getting this game Thursday, I’ve played about… 10 hours. Not much by gamer standards, but WAY too much for these times. It’s not even that *great* of a game; it’s like reading a book bout characters you don’t really care about. Ah, but my brother would be jealous–so as long as he doesn’t know, it’s coo~

But Oblivion, it has the most amazing visuals that I’ve EVER seen in a game:

A knight of some sort.

So things are kinda funky these days. Plans for the summer are near finalized: we get out of school sometime between 5/9-5/13 (I’ll find out soon); Study abroad in Beijing from 5/27 – 7/9, and a new addition, my first visit to Korea in 5 years from 7/9-7/21. So that’s pretty much half my summer decided already.

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[UPDATED]

It’s kind of scary, thinking that half of college is over already… don’t you think? Things are different from freshman year, when everything was new, and anything was worth trying. This is year two, and college is as much home as anywhere else; I’ve actually stopped trying to avoid calling this pad my “home”, and I suppose, when you spend 9 out of 12 months here, it IS home.

I hate having regrets. As high school neared its end, a very rare once in a while, I’d look back at those four years and wish that I could do it over again. With senior year began a sharp upturn, and in the end, it proved to be amazing enough to salvage and take make the entire experience one of the best times of my life… and so quickly, it was over. I vowed to make every year thereafter better than the last. I think we all did.

And now we’re here. Livin’ it up, University style, year two. And how is it? I’m sure everyone’s experience is vastly different. For some, they dove deep into what they’ve been doing, and found out that they actually like it (Mr. Godbole for one); others have begun to reach beyond what they thought they were (Jon somehow thinks he’s a doctor now– ), I for one finally stopped changing majors every semester…

Haha, wow, what an unorganized stream of thoughts. To me, it feels as if the year is just beginning–at an upturn, once again, things hopeful.

21 Quad Leaving Allen Hall

More on that later…

Time to eat my ramen!

KsQ Unity!