Napalm Riot

Well, my school pulled an extra $1500/semester out of their ass for me, so I can probably go both this year and next. Which, of course, makes me happy. I was really looking forward to this year. I mean, I'm actually going to be living with people I know and chose to live with. (For those who don't know, I lived with a friend of my boyfriend's last year, by complete coincidence. It was... awkward, because she decided that me being back at school meant she and Dave couldn't be friends anymore.)

So I leave on Monday night to go back East. My dad and stepmom are taking me. I'm hoping I can move in early, as the scheduled day for sophomores/juniors/seniors to move in is the day before classes start. Which in and of itself sucks, but I also have a several hour training deal for the Society of Women Engineers. I'm hoping this training thing will be interesting. It's going to cover some topics that are trouble areas for our chapter (like, a lack of involvement from the majority of members and both a difficulty in recruiting new members and keeping them interested).

I'm rather excited for some of my classes this semester and rather wary of some others. My classes are:
- Systems and Signal Processing (lecture and lab)
- Microelectronics
- Software Components and Generic Programming
- Advanced Digital Design (lovingly nicknamed "ADD")
- Software Design for the Visual Environment
- Applied Statistics
Most of my classes are on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. In fact, I only have one class on Tuesday and Thursday. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean I'm free. I'm expected to spend a lot of time Tuesday and/or Wednesday afternoon/evening in the ECE Undergraduate Lab for ADD.

I suppose it's rather obvious that I'm back from South Carolina. It only took me four days to get home because of flight cancellations. I ended up spending a night in a shitty Microtel in Charlotte, NC and a couple of days with a former classmate in Plymouth, MA, before I was able to catch a flight across the country. They also managed to send my luggage to Fort Lauderdale instead of Boston, and then couldn't find it to save their lives - both when I reported it when I arrived in Boston and when I was departing Boston. When I landed in Oakland, I found out my parents had gone by baggage services and they had gladly given it up to my parents, without even making sure they were my parents. At least I finally accrued enough flight points to get a free flight.

I finished LEGO Star Wars: The Original Trilogy around a month ago and I played Guitar Hero for the first time a couple weeks ago. I enjoyed Guitar Hero much more than I thought I would, and I picked it up way faster than I ever thought was possible. So much entertainment was had.