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Quarter 5 here at Neumont University has started. Luckily I got into golf class so at least I get to have a little fun in between all of the work. This is what my schedule is looking like this quarter.

• Golf
• Game Programming
• Calculus
• Algorithms and Data Structures
• Development in the J2EE Framework I
• Projects IV

I’m pretty excited for the Projects class. This quarter I’m working on the PHPGedView project. Which is currently ranked #2 on the list of most active projects on sourceforge. My group is responsible for creating an Open “Source” Repository so that people can easily find more sources to look up information about their family tree. It’s a very interesting project and I can’t wait until we get past the database design and start the coding.

I also landed a grading position this quarter, so I have some source of income. I’m grading the Topics in Software Development, which is a class that all of the new students have to take. It’s pretty interesting to see the different things that get turned in and the different ways people decide to do things.

I’ve started playing World of Warcraft again after giving it up for about a month. I’ve decided that I’m going to finish leveling my Rogue and transfer it to Kalecgos since they’ve opened realm transfers. Most of the people that I used to play with decided to give the game up, and I have some friends on Kalecgos, so.. goodbye Tichondrius.

That’s really all that’s going on right now. Since it’s 1AM and I have Golf bright and early in the morning, I’m going to bed.

Well, yesterday started the fourth quarter here at Neumont. Here’s my class lineup

• Algorithms and Data Structures
• Astronomy
• Development in the .NET Environment III
• Projects III
• Role-Based Software Development
• Trigonometry

It ought to be a fairly good quarter. I’ve got a pretty good team for projects and none of the classes seem too overwhelming.

I’ve decided to give wow a break for awhile. I’m going to try and find something interesting to code in my spare time instead. Either that or try and find something fun to do here in Salt Lake City, which probably won’t happen anytime soon. It seems all of the clubs are only 21+ which really sucks. My roommate found a promising hookah bar to go to, but after we made the plans to go, we found out you had to be 21 to get into it. So those plans were shot down pretty quickly.

We took rag on our 4th attempt.

See Screenshot (i’m the Gnome in the Dreadmist Mask, to the left of the bear, in front of the dwarf ;] )

If you want a place to upload pictures and have them hosted, I’ve created a simple image uploading script which can be found here.

WoW has pretty much taken over my life. When I get home from school, I get on WoW, during the weekends; you won’t find me in downtown Salt Lake City. No, you’ll find me on Tichondrius as a Gnome Warlock with the username Qwik.

I added a section to my photos page where I can post all the pictures I take for my digital photography class. Right now there’s only one, but I should end up getting more.

Today we had to take a VXML quiz, which was pretty easy, but VXML really sucks. It’s a way of programming applications for users to access via telephones. The class is a survey course where we just briefly touch on a few subjects. The next topic we cover is GDI, which should be pretty fun. My mom said that if I get all A’s in my classes, she’ll get me a new computer, that should be pretty cool.

Since it’s almost 1A.M. I’m going to go to bed. Later.

I’ve fallen victim to World of Warcraft. I think it can happen to anyone. I play on the Tichondrius (PVP) server. I’m a level 23 Gnome Warlock that goes by the name of Qwik. Look me up, give me some gold, I won’t turn it down. I just recently figured out about the battlegrounds. I wish somebody would have told me about these things sooner. They’re awesome, you go in and play capture the flag, and kill tons of horde. Anyways, I’d really recommend going to Pure Pwnage (Music) and downloading the song World of Warcraft is a Feeling. It pretty much sums up the people that get involved with WoW. Also, download all the videos; they’re a really good watch.

As far as school goes, I got put into the advanced C# class. I decided to setup a wiki for people to reference if they get stuck or something. You can check it out here. “WTF” has become the slogan for the advanced C# class. Currently we’re creating our own Integer data type. We have to overload all the operators and everything. Can you say, “WTF?”

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