Home Again, Home again, giggady gig
So I'm back in RI. Its weird. This really doesn't seem like a summer term. The fact that I'm still technically in the process of moving out of my apartment in Worcester. Then there's the whole staying in Worcester for the middle part of the week. Plus the weather has been much cooler than the typical summer term.
I suppose this is a bigger issue with life. Humans, I believe, like separation. Like personally if I'm starting something new, like a summer term, or more importantly, an MQP, I wanted to feel like there was some sort of starting gun. A big beginning, but like many things in life...it sort of just kinda started and is picking up speed and well...at some point you just kinda realize its underway.
I know that not every MQP is like this. In fact most of them probably aren't, but I do feel like its contributing to my feeling of well...weirdness. I still feel like I'm inbetween two "things." I'm sure once I settle into a routine both here (Rhode Island) and in Worcester doing my MQP that I'll get over this feeling.
As for now I'm doing what little "room setting up" as I can at night when my parents are sleeping almost directly below me. I have to keep the noise to a minimum. One of the trade offs of living at home.
For The Geeks:
I'm currently borrowing a laptop from a friend for an extended period of time. This means I can envoke specialization of labor with my PCs. I have the main box, DuckBox, which I'm using to write this message. That's going to be mainly for "work." Work being defined as any purposeful activity I'm engaged in. Writing this blog counts.
Then I have the borrowed CowTop. That is a slightly old Gateway® Laptop. That machine's main purpose is to meet my constant internet demands. AIM, checking e-mail, message boards, news sites, the weather. Things like that. Its particularly useful if I'm working on ECE stuff with this machine. The ECE software tends to be very demanding and doesn't play nice with other software. But if I have CowTop going, I can maintain my internet fix and code PIC assembly at the same time.
Then there's the black sheep over in the corner. Its a work in progress. "Blockbuster." My media PC. Currently I'm installing Windows. It has a TV tunner card and some TV outs. It has a tendency to lock up. We'll see about that one.
And that's all she wrote.
I suppose this is a bigger issue with life. Humans, I believe, like separation. Like personally if I'm starting something new, like a summer term, or more importantly, an MQP, I wanted to feel like there was some sort of starting gun. A big beginning, but like many things in life...it sort of just kinda started and is picking up speed and well...at some point you just kinda realize its underway.
I know that not every MQP is like this. In fact most of them probably aren't, but I do feel like its contributing to my feeling of well...weirdness. I still feel like I'm inbetween two "things." I'm sure once I settle into a routine both here (Rhode Island) and in Worcester doing my MQP that I'll get over this feeling.
As for now I'm doing what little "room setting up" as I can at night when my parents are sleeping almost directly below me. I have to keep the noise to a minimum. One of the trade offs of living at home.
For The Geeks:
I'm currently borrowing a laptop from a friend for an extended period of time. This means I can envoke specialization of labor with my PCs. I have the main box, DuckBox, which I'm using to write this message. That's going to be mainly for "work." Work being defined as any purposeful activity I'm engaged in. Writing this blog counts.
Then I have the borrowed CowTop. That is a slightly old Gateway® Laptop. That machine's main purpose is to meet my constant internet demands. AIM, checking e-mail, message boards, news sites, the weather. Things like that. Its particularly useful if I'm working on ECE stuff with this machine. The ECE software tends to be very demanding and doesn't play nice with other software. But if I have CowTop going, I can maintain my internet fix and code PIC assembly at the same time.
Then there's the black sheep over in the corner. Its a work in progress. "Blockbuster." My media PC. Currently I'm installing Windows. It has a TV tunner card and some TV outs. It has a tendency to lock up. We'll see about that one.
And that's all she wrote.
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