Monday, May 23, 2005

Club Priority

I can't say the amount of priority I have placed on this club but have little to show for. My mother tells me it is really hard to be a president. Being at the top position is very difficult indeed because I have to do a lot of thinking. Taking 20 units of classes was very unreasonable but I am pretty much forced to deal with it because I truly hate thinking to myself I won't graduate in four years. I know some people will be jealous if I manage to succeed at my goal. It's only very normal. I have always been scared about performing at the maximum level because I have been worried about things changing too fast. It's like a psychological fear of progressing too fast from having to dedicate a lot of time to it. This sort of developed when I had straight A's in the first year of high school and last two years in middle school. I then became faced with struggles of deciding my priority level.

It always felt like I was being held back from something. I did want to learn about computers really badly at one point and get straight A's and go to a nice school. The only scary portion about this dream was the amount of investment I would have to make. I chose to go after the short term happiness by watching television and playing computer games. I guess these things happen to many kids nowadays.

I can't really explain how people showed up to the club meeting. It was really cool to observe people coming to a meeting we absolutely did nothing in. I am very happy to be able to acknowledge the amount of support I obtained early in the year. I really became a little worn out from not understanding people's priorities. It is like everyone has different priorities with life, but the same principle remains in that the majority of us continue to show up for lectures in school.

There is always going to be a little nervousness associated with me in doing a club. Being a president and bringing in cookies was a lot of fun. When the meetings stopped occuring from people not showing up, I did not know what happened. I became very appalled and feared creating more meetings. I felt like a nobody who was just in existence and a person with a will to program anything the professor gave. I would naturally stink at working with concepts.

I did do a little research on people's learning abilities. One of these is having the skill to write. I think I characterize as a person who has a somewhat ability to play musical instruments, write, research on issues, solve problems, and program. There is something inside of me that is causing me to feel like breaking down and to make progress at the same time. It is sort of wierd in a sense. I really don't want to let go of myself and do the things that will eventually hurt me.

I have so many moments of feeling a lot of confidence. I guess it is a good thing in a sense. I have had to overcome a lot of anxieties and phobias. I was afraid of studying and reading. I have always been afraid of offending people for doing things I think are the best way for everyone.

What I realize overall is that the best communicative efforts from me caused the club to develop. It looks like communication is a very big priority in a club. It doesn't matter how others who think negatively about us feel. It's about taking care of the scope of things.

Club Prowess

Everything is coming down to the last minute because a lot of events are happening. First of all, there is a Clubs of science club banquet. I need to find some officers to attend it. Another meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, where all of the officers for the next year are supposed to attend. This becomes a very tough venture because a lot of CS majors work. I mean a whole lot of them really have jobs to think about and to deal with.

It is really understandable for these people to deal with their jobs. I finally understand a lot of these things. Working at a company will probably mean leaving for work at lunch time. Meetings are generally conducted at lunch time. I am really glad I have a vice president supporting me by doing some physical work. I can't do everything by myself anymore.

It's like thousands of ideas come out of my head at the same time, and I have to spend a lot of time filtering out the ones that won't sound very pleasing to the mass. A lot of common sense is at work here, and I am making so many mistakes on accident. It's like I lost my sensitivity with people and don't really care about them anymore. I don't understand what I had been doing wrong all this time except for now. I need to create some flyers that I can pass out by hand. I need to buy a paper slicer to make it easier for me. I have to get the printer installed on my laptop.

There really is not a lot of time left. The only way I can really set up this club for getting a stronger foundation is if I start doing the things I think up. These thoughts are what I have to write down. I do a lot of brainstorming with some cool ideas but I sometimes forget them when I become nervous around people.

Labtop Observations

It really looks like people don't really care if you bring a laptop to class. I used to not care about those people too, but now I feel very privileged because I am now going to bring my new laptop to class. The features I really like about this laptop is that it uses an NVIDIA graphics card. Finally, I get to have one for taste. For the first time, I never knew I could connect to the internet at my home which I know doesn't have a cable connection. I must be intruding on some neighbor's speed. That was really cool to feel that I am getting the internet for practically free. I am glad my dependencies with AOL are now over. As an internet newbie, I thought nothing came better than AOL but all of that stuff comes from doing hard work and searching. People can use Yahoo Chat or something else on the internet without worrying about those boring chatrooms.

I remember suffering so much by just going into a chatroom and staring down the text. I was really shy and could not even break out of my shell in a chatroom. I know that was pretty pathetic. I have always been so concerned about how people would think about me. It's like I am really sensitive about doing a really bad thing that might offend someone. When I get angry though, I don't think I become that person anymore. It's like my thoughts are focused on something that I feel is unfair. I really don't know what goes on with the other person I am intelligently attacking. In a way, it feels like I become a very smart person in a quantitative amount as Hulk has. When Hulk gets madder, he keeps smashing but I don't I just keep thinking harder.

Mind Wandering

I have been mind wandering extravagantly for the past week. Doing some calculations with all the hours from Thursday to Sunday starting at 6 pm, I have accumulated 60% of my time into mind wandering. If I had never recorded the things I had done, then I would never have noticed the amount of attention deficit activities I did.

A friend tells me I am placing a lot of focus into studying because I am preparing for the finals already. To be truthful, I really don't know what week we are in. I'm just starting to do so because I have a lot of interest in balancing my interests of studying and personal matters.

It feels like my brain shuts down at around the night, but I still have to keep going until my personal energizer bunny decides to stop drumming. That would be at midnight where I become fast asleep.

Sunday, May 22, 2005

Something to let off my chest

I really have too many concerns about my image. Seems like I judge my image off of the amount of support I obtain. I think I am going to have to let my personal opinions not really reflect on how people feel about me. It's like we are all entitled to personal opinions. Business or academic wise, we should be judged based upon our past experiences. Other professionals can predict a model of feasibility based upon the personal interview, resume, and possibly GPA.

I can't really over emphasize the GPA value because some say it doesn't really show you what kind of stuff you've done in the real world. All those projects could be explained to the employer in my opinion. If you communicate well about what your program does, then I guess it will flow well. I'm thinking about programming a logically unbreakable calculator and number speller. It's basically a normal calculator with a spell button. I'm going to put it on a GUI and let the user put in a regular expression or whatever compiler concepts I can get my hands on. I believe this will give me a challenge in all sorts of disciplines.

If someone tries to break my code, then I can also work on security as well. I can care about a lot about what businesses are partially concerned about because I am proposing on copy righting this program and possibly distributing it freely to everyone interested in breaking my pending spelling calculator. I have the simple algorithm already to spell up to an infinite amount of numbers without the commas included. I think I will be doing more error handling to make people think I rigged this program so that I can coin it the unbreakable calculator.

Club Photos and T-shirts and miscellaneous

The club window is dying from all the package tape I put on it. The residue is still there even after removing it. The club window is so outdated. Where is the current culture in it? Everyone else has been putting pictures together and using it to advertise themselves. We should do this as well. I do have a cheesy pocket camera, and I regret having thrown away the box which sheltered it. I should have kept all of that stuff together.

Looks like I'm the only one who knows what to do around here. The T-shirts will never happen without me reminding everyone what to do. Looking online, we should have a good enough deal to be evenly funded by the club. I'm going to make orders on number of T-shirts for people who show up! Members get it for free and anyone else interested is going to have pay 5 dollars. This is because these people are half-minded about this club.

If they would like to join us for cooler events like Speedzone then they are going to have to cough up another 5 dollars. We could do camping at the mountains or at a beach. There are several options, now come to think of it.

Saturday, May 21, 2005

Tough Times

Looks like I missed the deadline again. This time I bought myself a labtop for $800. It's not a really bad one, I would say. It has wireless connection to the internet which is really cool. I'm still dealing with an AMD XP processor. I guess it's so-so overall. By adding $239 at Fry's, I ordered this laptop to go under five years of warranty. I know it sounds pretty odd, but the explanation for it is that in like four years a $800 labtop will be replaced with today's higher-end models. Basically, remind myself to exercise a warranty on this labtop after four years.

The feelings don't look too good for me right now. I feel really baffled by my emotions. I guess I don't mind talking personally to people. I feel a whole lot better these days when I engage in some good conversations. It does not necessarily have to be about myself. Writing is something I've been doing a whole lot lately. I don't really know what the cause is for it.

Hard work is a lot harder to accomplish than it seems. It also shows in my perspective that I don't really appreciate the amount of hard work some events get. So why would I work so hard then? Well, it just seems right to work hard and at the same time, morally just to not to brag about hard work.

I'm pretty much at the end of the straw with wanting to watch steamy and erotic movies. I remember struggling really badly six or seven years ago. Nowadays, I'm realizing how big of a dummy I was to think about perverted things. I'm through with advocating leisure time with those movies!

Sunday, May 15, 2005

Have a lot to say

It looks like I forgot to mention about the food part with Poker Movie Night. We had enough food to last a whole night with 10 people according to Kevin. This time I want to bring two saucy dips so the game will have encourage more players at the table. We had potatoe and tortilla chips being eaten, but the danish crossiants were not eaten. I am going to have those at the meeting on Tuesday.

I want to try out the extra buttery popcorn this time. The original secret popcorn tasted a little nasty, but the package became stolen to my surprise. I think someone who visited the kitchen must have thought I left it there for giving it away. It was pretty interesting to see how people will actually steal when no one is looking.

The flyers have sent out a message. I intend to post all of my flyers on the club window for a display of history because that is what has defined us. The flyers say a lot about this club because it has been created by me. Being a president and sensitive person, sometimes I forget how much work I put into carrying a good image for myself. There comes a moment in life where you don't really care what happens to you anymore and just want to get some purely good stuff done.

Regardless of what people say and do, I have made some negative judgements to the majority of them because I see it as their lack of concern. It must be like you have to be in someone's shoe to understand the situation. I don't know why I don't draw myself near to people as much as I should do.

There's been a confusing history about me in relationships with people. First of all, I did get by high school by saying less than a thousand words on its premise. By not communicating how I was feeling, most of the time I felt like a giant melting pot. I did not know how to go about solving many of my issues but felt I could at the same time. I kept on studying myself over all things by thinking about everything I was doing. My mind would fall fast asleep on many occasions of trying to pick up knowledge from a textbook.

I then became extremely stressed out. Not knowing what to do here, I was faced with the dilemma of sticking with the happy past or progressing into a scary future. I became xenophobic because my father and mother would put out their temper on me for not living up to their expectations with me. All along, I was worried about how people felt about me. I felt I was not worthy enough to be a person who communicated to others. I would be jealous at those who raised their mouths and stood up for what they believed in. I also would be angry if classmates did not repeat their acts which made me laugh or happy.

I would shift blames on people when I felt like a failure. All of these things with a disappointing grade turnout in high school brought me to an all-time low. In conclusion, I can see where my pity lies with me. At the same time, angry has driven me to think about my ambitions or concerns with life. Of all things, I would firstly love to be able to apply the controversial Bible into my life. My thoughts about my belief in Jesus Christ has stuck with me ever since 12th grade. It's brought a metamorphism I cannot explain to my life. It is like I have great moments of feeling appreciated by God. My life has been about turning the tables around, as Marcio Corona explains. Santipheap observed how I had changed from a lazy student into an 'A' student. I have given life nothing but my very best. For all that, things have gone wrong in several occasions. All I have to blame is myself and be angry with my failures of being an expectantly moral man and spreading the words of how Christ saved us from pains of doing lifelong sins.

Blog Maintenance

I was unable to log in before the deadline of Friday. So I am doing it today for Sunday. I am dealing with boisterously ambivalent emotions because the CS club has been so unsuccessful in getting people to show up at events. These events are a lot of fun to be around.

It was great to have four of us gather and play poker at the Poker Movie Night. Unfortunately we had no movie set up because Kevin wanted to watch some anime. Memories will last after last night. It was funny to see Vern walk down the stairs for two stories by looking at the windows. He let us in from the back.

What I intend to do is to make Poker Movie Night a weekly activity. Without Kevin, I am afraid I cannot do anything related to CS Club. He has been my wing of assistance. I plan on creating a dumb poster and posting it on the lobby's entrance so people will know about us. I will then take it down.

Saturday, May 07, 2005

Club Cliques

This is the end of Week 6 and it looks like not a lot of CS majors are going to be a part of this club. The best things to do is to just keep creating flyers and getting the ideas done. Regardless of the number of people who show up, it is about the quality and not the quantity. Being a club president to a young club is a very stressful business because others generally do not have the demand to give their efforts to what they believe will stay a small cause. This brings me some anger because I know I can make this club a big thing.

The vice president and I are the only ones who have done the most work. I have not received any good responses from others because they have their sights on some other things. It is true I have been sleeping mentally on all the club things, but I cannot give up and believe the show is over. No matter what happens, the show must go in for this club.

The honor's president started crying in his own shoulder because no one showed up for the Friday's meeting. The emotions create a rough ride because the experiences are not easy to comprehend or deal with. CS majors generally do not care but the few in my club are wonderful supporters to whatever cause I have been trying to do. Rationality tells me to quit but my habits are to never quit no matter what until it is the end.

Life does not just end and a strong will does not just go away. Hard work combined with consistency ensures a strong club. The hardest things take us out into going after the easiest things which seem to be good. CS Club is trying with all its might because the will of the president exists. The president is no figure head because he is trying to make everything happen. Last year's president has given up the sights of this club.

The head chair does not believe this club will be a strong one. The majority of CS majors will never be a part of something so good and wonderful as the CS Club. It is a shame to know people cannot sense the best things in life because they prefer being in a socializing mood among others. Some prefer to show off more than others. Some lead themselves straight to a sinful stage in life.

Not many cannot see the awesome light of believing in Jesus Christ, nor will they ever will. It is not a sense of pessimism but mourning truth. A lot of people will die and be thrown into the lake of fire. I must not become frustrated and win at this game of succeeding a club. The dirty work has stayed rotten for CSS, now CS Club, because programmers formed it and all I remember being told was not much from last year's president.

It's like the cold cycle will repeat itself. We elect a new president and vice president and only to have it been done with the consent of the president and small group of people meeting. Nothing was ever done because the meetings were only composed of speakers who said stuff that I don't remember.

We all must act and knock out other clubs who try to harm our status. It's only a game of captialism and no physical lives are at stake here. This is very ethical in a sense because America was designed to be voiced with opinions. Opinions formed in truth are the best to consider because they have formed this country all along. Despite all the negative views of politicians, the Americans who say them do not get anything done and eventually compromise with it. They are the dumb folks.

It is time for me to do everything that is good and in my power to serve the almighty God. I owe everything to Him for all good things I have accomplished. Without the sense of stability and stronger vocabulary build, I will never become a gem of communication. This is my first year where I take everything which I have written into consideration. For the Lord God, I offer my services without any compromise.

Thursday, May 05, 2005

Thursday Help Sessions

I am happy to be the first to announce the very first CS Club Help Session. This is to be done on Thursdays weekly during the University Hour. Oh wow, this is so awesome because this means we could have Dr. Salloum sit in at this room during his office hours. I am going to e-mail him right now because he will be so delighted to help out.

The reasoning behind this is club members have a hard time in some of their classes. Having a friend help you out is a big motivation to do your work. Communication is key in developing your ideas into a stronger scientist!

Thoughts circulating CS Club

It looks as though people do not care to show up. The best thinking to do is to believe people will come. What made me angry was feeling the thought that CS majors would be making fun of the CS Club themselves and try to go about things with the way the world is. I intend to beat the negative thoughts about this CS Club.

I remember being a fan of the CSS (Computer Science Society) from last year. It was great to attend those meetings and go with the downfall of it. I was happy that a president was willing to nominate me to become next year's president. I became really energetic about this whole thing. It was surprising to see how I was filibustering the whole meeting most of the time because I became absolutely anxious to try to make this the best as possible.

The following topic is on CS majors and it relates to club negatives because I am profiling the typical CS major so that we can have further discussions on who we are.

Some days, the feeling went away and I became just like any other ordinary CS major. I was struggling with my work, in other words. The phenomenon of CS majors is quite a simple thing to see because resources and time is the most precious to them. There comes a moment in everyone's life where a person must battle with interests and decide on how to take the route.

I remember talking to people who changed their majors from Computer Science, and some of those reasons did not make a whole lot of sense. Why should one change majors just simply because of not enough money or job opportunity? The dilemma occurs in how it feels like the media and the world is bashing on this subject, but in its entirety people can change their impression with any subject by taking a look at the other's composure. The loud-mouthed individuals of CS should basically be smarter and that will cause people to study harder because everyone builds their motivation or influences off of each other.

Unfortunately, trying your hardest is sometimes not good enough. Other resources, such as communicating your thoughts becomes very useful. It is quite the blessing to have a knowledgable person give meaningful advice. The BBQ was a huge success and it would never have happened without the help of Cass. In a very fast paced world, people generally do not have enough time to decipher all the wonderful idioms that come out of our mouths. It is quite the shame because some share very meaningful symbols to us.

Making changes in our lives is a very tough thing to do. Believing in someone to make that happen is great, but the ultimate lies not in yourself. Our best beliefs are what shape this world to our perspectives and that provides us with very truthful lives. This has of course been a historical debate between many philosophers. It is a sense of listening and getting a good idea out of it that helps us see the wonderful and bad things. I personally found Jesus Christ in my life and not the ones found with Book of Mormon or any other, so New King James Version, King James Version, English Standard, or New International Version is what I try to learn daily.

From hearing about the Bible in several occasions, it looks like humanity symbolizes as a fragile piece of rock because any one has capacity with being chaotic. The domain of perfection is found in God who sent His son Jesus Christ to die for all of our regrets, pains, and ignorances that caused others harm. It caused what I would like to call a super nova in the spiritual body where angels and demons battle for order vs. chaos. The hidden theory behind it comes from Christology (study of Jesus) where the field claims the death of the one and only perfect God, Jesus Christ, caused a counter effect to God's vision of destroying people and the Holy Spirit entered into our lives to convict us of our guilts and give us a form of calling to be right with God, upon believing in Jesus Christ. It is quite a comprehendible story surrounding words of insurmountable wisdom. Perhaps, in a simulated setting where everything is in context with our lives, a single command in the Bible that tells us how we should live will probably serve up an eternity of debates from opposers. I would like to see a nonbeliever try to disprove my claim by looking at 100% accurate context of the Bible, but it will never happen.

Anger can be useful if one does not basically sin because it can help you act upon finding your pure and good ambitions and is found in the scriptures, paraphrasing, be angry but don't sin.

Wednesday, May 04, 2005

Software Engineer Job Title

SOFTWARE ENGINEER Description:
Rockwell Collins Inflight Entertainment Systems requires a software engineering professional to provide software design, implementation, testing and maintenance of software applications written in C++ and VB on a windows platform in an embedded system.

Duties/Responsibilities:
Ensure compliance with program/product requirements as reflected in design plans
Responsible for troubleshooting problems with existing software and developing new software as needed
Perform other related duties as assigned
Candidate must have effective oral and written communication as well as good interpersonal and team skills. Experience with MS SQL Server is a plus.Qualifications:Candidate must have a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science.

TO APPLY: visit our website at www.rockwellcollins.com

First impressions:
It looks like a job for a two year degree holder. It looks like something a CS major could fall back on if everything else goes wrong. Stability of this job is quite a question. The job certainly seems to not be a very feasible position being that our school is java-oriented. C++ and VB are two high level languages that have been upgraded to .NET technology already so it is not so certain if this company will still offer the same job description. Going along mainstream, stability is definitely with the position of system analyst or business analyst. It uses a lot of Microsoft and I'm feeling a lot of companies want more breathing room capability out of their employees.
There is possibility of having a joy ride by using VB, a drag and drop, and more readible language. Being at the front seat of a software application seems to be a lot of fun, but these kinds of jobs are not meant for everyone. In the engineering biz, each degree holder becomes their own businessman/businesswoman where a possibility of relocations and less favorable positions occur. That is why sticking with the CS Club might actually be advantageous in providing the members an environment to practice their ideas. There will always be a risk but everyone starts off somewhere. Politics will become a bigger name of the pot for those who decide to take the uncertain route. Chances are, your presumptions of the world are too insufficient to even try to develop but we all never said we can't judge it!

Personal Job Rating: 6.5 / 10

Tuesday, May 03, 2005

CS Club Opinion

It has been pretty hard to figure out what makes a clubber tick. Many ideas have come across ever since, but the most effective ones have come from those who know what has to be done. For example, Cass is a former club council member somewhere and with her advice that was given to the VP and me, we were able to start up the club again. My findings are pretty clear:
people basically have a life. No matter how one asks people to help out with the club, if there is no good reason by common sense then you can kiss their help goodbye.

My method is simply put three things:

1.) Let a person know why you can't get a task done.
2.) Give out the details about benefits that the task will do.
3.) Never tell a person to do more than one thing at a time because people generally need to have a life.

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