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    Band/Song that got you into music?

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    Three Doors Down- Kryptonite

     

    I dont know what it is about that song, but when i heard it when i was younger, it really put me into alternative rock and then i have gone from there...

     

    Before i listened to oldies music because that was all my mom listened too...i wasnt really a fan of it, but it was tollerable when i was little...

    Unreal Tournament III

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    I just got the game recently and have played through the Ronin campaign (or the first 2 parts and half? of the third...) and am really impressed with the game. I have not tried out the multiplayer yet because i dont have a key with me (my mom bought the game for me for christmas but i installed it at school using the disc of a friend of mine...so i do own it, just not with me at the moment...), but i am hoping that it will be up to the standards set by its predecessors. The graphics look great for me and it runs extremely smooth, hell, it even loads maps faster then UT2k4 does on my same machine...It is amazing looking at the new weapons designs, specifically the flack cannon (my personal favorite weapon for close combat...)

     

    Anyone else get the game or play though it yet and want to share their reactions?

    Black Friday

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    What shopping have to do with Black Friday?

     

    Black Friday is basically the day that all the major retail stores (and now other stores too...) have really really big sales to "kick off" the holiday shopping season...it is pointless, but sometimes you can get a good deal...(i got all my christmas gifts for people last year for under 15 USD...parents, sister and girlfriend...so i really got a great deal...especially since the normal price for it all was above 100 USD...)

    Black Friday

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    i usually dont go out shopping...my mom does though and drags my sister along with at 4am to wait in lines...she is amazing at spotting deals though...ill wake up at 9 or 10 that morning and she will be showing me stuff she got at 95% off for hours...

    I just took the hardest test of my life. :(

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    Physics, all branches of it from astro to quantum, totally blows me away. I have so much respect for physicists.

     

    I hear that...i know the basics of quantum mechanics from all the chemistry courses and a physics course called Quantum Mechanics and Modern Physics, and it still blows my mind....the best thing that can be said my Chemistry professor told me at the beginning of the term..."Quantum mechanics is one of those things that i will teach you, you will not really understand it, then next year, another chemistry class will make you learn it again, and you will have some idea what is going on. This will continue while you are here at the University until when you are seniors, you will understand enough about quantum mechanics to know that you just have to accept it and not go looking for logical reasoning."

     

    At my school, one of the hardest courses is Physics 213: Thermodynamics...every year, most of the class leaves on the exam days and final exam days crying because of the difficulty of the material...sadly i have to take this class next year sometime...A note to all you people out there who are looking for majors...go into psychology...it will save your soul...physics and chemistry labs can be proven to steal the souls of engineers, as well as their social lives...

    I guess I gotta say goodbye to my social life while it lasts. Chem major here I come.

     

    Being a chem major isnt that bad...its more chemistry classes (and their subsequent labs). To be honest, chem labs are the hardest classes to me because you have to write lab reports that can easily top 10 pages for the simplest labs...as the chem courses get harder, the lab reports get longer...i know that the next lab i have (so this week...) has an average lab report length of 20 pages...its not fun to write, but it does teach you alot...it is basically teaching you how to write a report of good enough quality to be re-viewable and potentially published in a journal.

    I just took the hardest test of my life. :(

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    Physics, all branches of it from astro to quantum, totally blows me away. I have so much respect for physicists.

     

    I hear that...i know the basics of quantum mechanics from all the chemistry courses and a physics course called Quantum Mechanics and Modern Physics, and it still blows my mind....the best thing that can be said my Chemistry professor told me at the beginning of the term..."Quantum mechanics is one of those things that i will teach you, you will not really understand it, then next year, another chemistry class will make you learn it again, and you will have some idea what is going on. This will continue while you are here at the University until when you are seniors, you will understand enough about quantum mechanics to know that you just have to accept it and not go looking for logical reasoning."

     

    At my school, one of the hardest courses is Physics 213: Thermodynamics...every year, most of the class leaves on the exam days and final exam days crying because of the difficulty of the material...sadly i have to take this class next year sometime...A note to all you people out there who are looking for majors...go into psychology...it will save your soul...physics and chemistry labs can be proven to steal the souls of engineers, as well as their social lives...

    I just took the hardest test of my life. :(

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    Hey I had astronomy. It wasn't bad.

     

    Its not that it is bad, its just hard. The exams are designed to be brutal (according to the professor) so it is to be expected. It is also an astrophysics course...hell the text book is called "Astrophysics in a Nutshell" (yeah, i laughed at the irony of the title as well...)...The course material is also at a high level...you need to fully understand advanced modern physics (quantum mechanics and Electromagnetic principles) and be able to solve some really odd problems...(the problems start with very limited data to analyze and each part of the problem depends on the previous part so one mistake leads to a world of pain...especially when you realize that you made a mistake and dont have enough time to go back and dig through the problems to find where it is at...) The subject matter is really interesting, but contrary to popular belief, astronomy isnt just looking at stars, it is basically an advanced physics course...

    I just took the hardest test of my life. :(

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    Hardest test I've ever taken was my final exam in Chemistry last year. Mostly because I was sick (I left the room and vomited in the middle of the test) and I had not studied well enough.

    chemistry is the worst subject I have ever seen

     

    Im a chemical engineering major...ironically, my chemistry courses are the easiest classes i am in...my hardest is my astronomy course...the class average on the last test was below a 50%...it is the only class that i have had where i leave the testing room thinking "Wow...i will be lucky to get a 50% on that test" and then be correct...the exams are brutal...i spent 3 days studying for it too so it was not from lack of studying...

    Out of Disk Space!

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    I had some troubles with utorrent filling up my hard drive, so i just kept looking at the sales ads in the newspaper and bought another hard drive...and then another one...i now have 1.15 TB hard drives sitting in my case...plus another 500GB on the network i have set up at my parents house...my friend's philosophy of "If you run out of space, just buy another hard drive" is really effective...(also deleting stuff is an option, i just dont like having to burn off and then store loads of movies on DVDs in my limited space at school...)

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