Blog - /Personal

This week might possibly qualify as the busiest week I've ever had at Purdue. The extended Diary view in my Planner Mode window had entries for every single day — a first.

Monday - Tuesday: Worked on PL project. Finished it 30 seconds before the turn-in window closed, only to realize the next day that my algorithm for sub-typing ML records was insufficient.

Tuesday: Met with a professor and found an interesting research topic for my Undergraduate Research thing next semester. It involves catching up a branch of Scheme 48 with either the latest stable release or the trunk (need to ask which). This should be fun to work on.

Tuesday - Wednesday: Migrated 3 PLUG machines from Ubuntu Dapper to Ubuntu Edgy. Migrated an additional machine from Debian sarge -> Ubuntu Dapper -> Ubuntu Edgy; spent two hours trying to figure out why the machine was unpingable, only to realize that the order of networking interfaces had changed.

Wednesday: Algebra homework. I suspect that I will have to allocate twice as much time to schoolwork as normal in order to pass this class. I also need to catch up in the PL textbook.

Thursday: PLUG elections. We had a good turnout, and I'm satisfied with the way things went. Congratulations, new officers!

Friday: Got up early to make up an EAS lab (the TA did not show up on Tuesday). Had to rush back to the apartment to do a phone interview with a prospective employer. The connection cut out on my cell — finished the interview standing next to the living room window.