Rebel Power Supply

Cool post on slashdot about Sage, an Open Source alternative to commercial math suites. One of the classes offered over interterm is “Computational Mathematics Tools” and apparently we’ll be going over Tex, Sage, and Matlab. I think I’ll get a bit of a head start on the class (as usual), and play around with Sage as soon as it finishes downloading in 10 minutes. I may just audit that class and enroll in a GE. This way I can chill out a bit - just show up and be obnoxious while learning a few things. I guess that’s usually the plan anyway, but it’ll be more blatant this time.

This is the last week of the semester, I’m really stoked for winter break. Just so long as I don’t sleep through any exams, things should be totally fine. It’s fun to listen to my friends experience their first semester of college exams, as they realize how much studying they need to do. They’ll BS their way through it, but at least now they understand why I was grumbling last year.

So I still haven’t enrolled in any classes yet. The good thing about being a CompSci major is that classes don’t fill up that quickly (at least here at Chapman). There are a lot of really interesting math courses, and all the professors are really pushing people to take them. My advisor is teaching a course in topology, which sounds like it should be fun. We went over some of the basics in Foundations of Geometry this semester, so we’ll see what I wind up  taking.

Finals this semester shouldn’t be a big deal, I’m glad I spent so much time learning and studying earlier, since I can pretty much chill out and be jolly now.

Yay blog claim: Technorati Profile

Sweet, the Ubuntu California LoCo team has been approved to be an exhibitor at the Southern California Linux Expo!

 I won’t lie, I’m pretty stoked that we’re going. I’ll update more when I’m not working on the Mozilla BugDay. (yes, gratuitous plug for more testers)