Science Bowl

This past Saturday, LASA took two teams to a new competition in A&M, the DOE (Department of Energy)-sponsored Science Bowl. The format is really dumb, really formal, really bad. Buzzer races are the only things that matter. LASA was completely new at the competition. Of course we took first place. And with it, a free trip to Washington DC. Sadly, though, I shall not be going. I was booted off the top team at the last moment, to make place for a senior who definitely deserved to be on the team more than I did. As it is, I headed the B team consisting of two sophomores, a freshman, and a penguin (yes, Sergei Wang the penguin held a buzzer) to a 7th place finish, eliminated in the quarterfinals. Pretty good, in my opinion.
Of course, Science Bowl still sucks.

SNOW

Snow snow snow snow snow snow! Of course, this was about two weeks ago, but somehow I completely skipped the blogposts for that week. But still. Snow in Austin! That nearly never happens, and when it happens, it tends to not accumulate. But today it did! Er...today being the Friday two weeks back. It was very nice to go out, before just about anyone else in my neighborhood, and to see the unblemished snow in a blanket over the ground. Unblemished for not long, though. I ended up meeting a friend who lived around the corner unexpectedly, and ended up throwing a lot of snowballs and laughing at her aim.
It was a fun day. Even better, no school! I remember that something was due that A-Day that I really did not want to turn in. Hence, I consider the snow a godsend.

Reflection on Week 2.4

Somehow, it appears I skipped this week. I have no idea how. So, I kinda forget what we did this week.
If I remember correctly, this week was a relaxing week, because this was the week between Arrays and ArrayLists. By inference, I assume that we spent this weekend just catching up on labs and worksheets, which was good, because if I recall, I actually finished the worksheets on time!
I feel really bad for all the lateness that I have in this class. I really need to change that.

Reflection on 2.6

This week was an interesting week, in that Mr. Stephens was not around for the whole week; at least, for neither of the B-days. This meant, of course, that we were left considerably to our own devices. Which means, of course, our favorite, Tetris. Mind you, though, this was only one class period; the other class period was devoted to work. CompSci work, as a matter of fact, not just any work. The prospect of Mr. Stephens picking up our worksheets at the end of class was sufficient motivation, as was the fact that there would probably be a quiz next time. Critters are interesting- I'm just sad it means more gridworld.
On the bright side, I did my blog on time! Hurrah!

Cold

It is cold outside! And yet, not as cold as I would have thought. Give me a decent jacket, and I can walk quite a long way without feeling the coldness seeping into my bones, while others don't even need the jacket (crazies). Regardless, this doesn't tend to happen in Texas, and my feet are always cold at home. Give me the snow, oh mighty lords of the sky, Tlaloc or whoever the hell controls the rain. And then go home, for God's sake, and give us back the 50 degree highs. Those I can deal with.

Reflection on 2.5

This class is getting complicated fast. ArrayLists and creating new Classes and storing those in arrays confuses me a good amount. It may have just been that I wasn't paying attention, but even if I did, I don't think well on my feet. This, I think, means that I'll actually have to spend time with the presentations and other things at home...actual work, ugh.
Well, better get on it.