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I actually really like Eureka 7. I thought that the animation was beautifully done and that it had a good story (plus mecha fights as a supurb bonus)...I still episodes occasionally if i am in the mood for a good mecha fight...

What concert did you go so? Jimmy Eat World? or one at a smaller venue?T-minus 5 days...It is coming and there is nothing you can do to stop it...

Has anyone seen Hunter X Hunter? I started to watch it the other day and was completely lost. It seemed like it just started in the middle of a plot. I was totally confused and stopped watching (not purely because of confusion, but schoolwork got in the way...) Is it worth a revisit over winter break or should i just delete it from my digital library?

Zelda Mario Final Fantasy I would put warcraft (not World though... as it is technically not a franchise...but rather the warcraft rts games...)

wow...now i want to try and make one...

Its almost that time of year again; time to be at home, eating massive quantities of arguable the best food you will eat all year, and watching (or even playing) football. Having been away at school for the past three months, coming home is going to feel weird. As my former english teacher once said, "When you come home for Thanksgiving your freshmen year of college, it will be the first time that you will be a guest in your parent's homes." Somehow this seems true. Although I still claim my parent's house as home, it is no longer where I live; I have officially moved out, physically and emotionally (even if it is not permanent yet, the process has already started and I feel oddly detached from everything that happens there). Some of my friends do not believe me that we have moved out and on with our lives. They believe that returning to their old lives at their parent's homes will be natural and unnoticeable. I try to convince them that they are guests, that college housing is their new, albeit temporary, home. Somehow college changes you, and you don't even get a chance to notice until you are forced to look at where you were just a few short weeks ago. I know that I will have a hard time adjusting to life back under the parent's roof as I have grown accustomed to the freedom of college. I know that since I have started school, I have studied more these past three months then I did in the last three years of high school. I work my ass off for every grade I earn. But when I go home, my dad is going to yell at me because I am no longer a strait A student. Somehow, I don't care what he thinks all that much anymore. I know that I am working my ass off and that I am doing the best that I can. I am taking classes that for the first time, challenge me and interest me. I have also had to face the start reality that no longer can I rest on my laurels in school. There are other people who just as smart as me out there. And in the past three months, I have met many, many more who are even smarter then I am. I hate to admit this because up until now, I have always been one of the smartest people in all my classes. It is sad but true. As a testament to my work and schooling, I looked at the items I was going to pack for my trip home only to discover that I am taking back more books and notebooks then I am actual clothing items. Sadly, I am going to be spending alot of time over my vacation doing school work, trying to earn every point possible. One of the biggest surprises of my semester was my Chemistry Lab course. It is a standard course for freshmen Chemical Engineers and Chemistry majors. Every week, I have lab on Friday mornings for four hours. We complete a lab every week. That means that every week I have another lab report due. And they cause many sleepless nights. Many people I know complain of having 8 page term papers due once a semester. I have lab reports that are easily more then ten pages due every week. And to make things better, the course is only worth two credit hours. All my hours and hours of work, and the college barely rewards the effort with credit hours. Lessons learned so far in college include not taking Honors versions of courses; it is better to take the normal version and do a project for the course then take the honors course. This is because everyone in the honors section is really smart and into the subject. They also have their own curve separate from everyone else. That means that by scoring what would have been an A+ in a normal section, I would have instead scored a B or a C. That is how competitive the honors sections are. My psychology class is like that. It is really a pain in studying because for me, it is just a free elective to satisfy an Honors Requirement for the honors program I am in. I will make a decent grade and learn from my mistake. By far my hardest lecture based class is my astronomy class: "General Astronomy." When I signed up for the class, I figured that it would be a good astronomy course to take, would include some physics for describing the motions of bodies in space and all that fun stuff. Boy was I wrong. It is an astrophysics course. That is normally not a problem except for some of the material is way over my head as I am not currently enrolled in an Advanced Electromagnetics course (alot of the stuff we talk about is related to it...i understand some of it, but most of the time I just have to accept things at face value because I lack understanding of some of the concepts.) Fortunately for me, the class is difficult for everyone. I recently scored a 59% on a midterm in the class. That is a solid B in the course. That is how hard the class is for everyone. I am really glad I took the course though because it is the most interesting subject I am in currently. I really feel like I am overwhelmed sometimes. But I know that I just have to keep working at it. Although schoolwork dominates my life, I still have fun. Every saturday and sunday, the guys on my floor all gather in one of our rooms to watch the Fighting Illini Football and Da Bears. Since Illinois is definately making a Bowl Game now, me and my friends are trying to plan a road trip to Florida (where the two possible Bowl Games are held) to go to the game. The game is on New Year's Day so I'm not too sure if my parents would be up to it, but I really don't care. Going to college football games is one of the greatest experiences ever; where all the students are decked out in orange and chanting, it is awesome. I also recently went to Virginia Tech for a gymnastics meet. It was a ton of fun. It was a 9 hour drive to the school, but in that time, you really get to know the people who are squished in the car with you. We also were staying with 8 people in a room to save money on hotel bills so we really leaned alot about each other (Some of the things I found out about other people floored me completely...I would have never guessed that some of these people would do some of these things). The meet was decent. No one really did that well competing, but we had fun and made it look good. Afterwards, we all went to Buffalo Wild Wings for dinner. For those of you who dont know what it is, it is a sports bar type place that has amazing wings. We ended up watching part of the Illinois game when it came on TV. There were 27 of us there and we were chanting and yelling like we were at the game. We went nuts when the Illini scored touchdowns. The other people there were bewildered that we were so ecstatic about the game (especially since the LSU vs Alabama game was on). On the long drive home, we all stopped at a TGI Friday's to eat dinner. All 27 of us at a table at a sit down restaurant. We told the waitress that it was one kids birthday, and we went nuts singing for the guy. He got so embarrassed, but got a free cake slice in the end. Luckily our waitress was good and split the check by orders (something she organized before she even took anyone's order) so paying per person was really easy and simple. We did manage to rack up a bill of over $400 though, but for the number of people. it wasn't that bad. Well, I think I am blogged out for the day. I might put somethings up after break, but who knows.

Congrats...its always nice to reward yourself when you do well on exams =)

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...)

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...

let me revise that as i know what she looks like in the series... what difference is there between the manga nell and the anime nell besides the cuteness factor?

what is she supposed to look like (i dont read the manga...i just watch the anime...)?

who is nell? I watch the series...but i dont recall who nell is...

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 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...

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...

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...

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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the college student answer...cheap instant ramen and easy-mac... The real answer...the best food ever is dried wasabi beans...i can eat those by the handfull...other people think it is really gross, but i love them...

I started watching avatar awhile ago. I'm amazed by the quality of the show. How do you like it so far from what you've seen? I've seen episodes 1 and 2, I mean, the voice acting is spectacular, the animation is fluent, the storyline and the characters rock to the extreme, and there's so much comedic relief. It only gets better. The story is miraculously well-crafted. Sadly, the voice actor who plays the Uncle Iroh died. He has amazing talent. I have seen all of them so far (i think...im in college atm so i dont have access to the channel that it is on...). I love the series and it is one of my favorite cartoons ever...

Korben Dallas: We need to find the leader, Mangalores won't fight without the leader. Aknot: One more shot, and we start killing hostages! Korben Dallas: That's the leader. Aknot: Send someone to negotiate. Fog: [as Dallas looks at him] Uh, I-I've never negotiated before. Korben Dallas: Do you mind if I try? Fog: No, sure, sure, sure. [shouts] Fog: We're sending somebody in to negotiate! [Corben walks into the room and shoots Aknot between the eyes. As he falls, the other Mangalores drop their weapons and bow over him, keening] Korben Dallas: Anybody else want to negotiate? Fog: Wh-where did he learn to n-negotiate like that? President Lindberg: [looking at General Munro] I wonder. The Fifth Element is one of the greatest movies of all time.

N64 is the greatest system of the 90s...nothing can beat Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Goldeneye...and dont forget about Super Smash Brothers...

werent you hibernating too during that time? so the rate is a tad higher if you look at when you were active...

wow...SNL digital shorts are better then the actual show...

Luckily living in a college town, there are buses that run till 4 AM every day to take people home. There is also several other free transportation modes that the school endorses to get people home safely without having to drive. I prefer to walk home with a bunch of friends who live on the way after a night out so that we can continue having a good time on the way home (its also better then standing on a bus that makes erratic movements...)