Day 2 “Post-Orient”

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Title should be pretty self-explanatory before even starting this entry.

I’ve skipped a ton of days, and by a ton, I mean, “last day was my university orientation” ton. I did really enjoy it however, and currently I’m sitting inside the massive library of my campus, thinking about “what to study”. I have actually been away from programming for quite a while (not sure what has been bothering me, as there could be a lot of different implications to this one problem), but now I feel like I should really get started again, as they say, doing something makes you want to do it more. I’m not sure whether or not this is bogus but I personally want to believe it as a totally solvable problem.

Anyways, I’ve dropped PHY111 from the list of courses for this semester, and my courses will be:

• ENG102 (which is on compositions/writing)
• MAT110 (differential equations and coordinate geometry)
• CSE110 (some basic Java)

All of the classes that were held today were introductory, so there really wasn’t much to take from them, other than, quite literally, getting introduced to other people.

The CSE110 course might give you a hint of my current feeling. As, even after hating on Java for so long, I have to do it in university (mainly because the university chose this language in order to teach OOP elements properly to students, some of which they had likely found missing in Python). I’m really having mixed feelings about this. On one hand, I get to try bazel as my build system for Java, which, maybe will come handy later? On the other hand, the silly nuances of Java really annoys me (like us needing to separately import the Arrays class only to mutate an array using Arrays.something(overSomeArray) - it should be overSomeArray.something() right? for mutating contexts).

Obviously, these are all personal, and rather questionable opinions which I would only like you to skim through and not take into account, but these might come to haunt you later down the road too, if you’re learning the language.

I don’t have much opinions to share on the other two courses - both seem greatly aligned for now. Plus, I get to do graphs for trigonometric equations as homework! (boring)

Anyways,

I even attended a seminar today, on careers, which has given me some time to relax, and even though academics will be creeping in with its pressure soon, I still need to find a way to get working. That is, working in my own field. Particularly, with projects which I loved working on before, and now feel lazy to even touch.

Still got the love though so, eh, should be a matter of “when” and not “if”.

Oh, one more thing - maybe this entry will come to you as a time-slippage of over a month, and hopefully from now onwards these entries will be a lot more CS-oriented!