I have a most excellent finals schedule. My finals are crammed into Wednesday and Thursday which means that the only thing I have to do tomorrow is the orchestra I play in up in Erie. Not too bad. Plus I can spend Tuesday studying for my Algorithms and Data Structures final. Which I have a sinking feeling is going to be particularly cruel.

My VB final, however, which is the highlight of my Thursday afternoon, is going to be cake, I think. I can make that guess because the test isn’t going to be cumulative. Non-cumulative tests = hooray.

Luckily for me I don’t have to bust my ass studying for calculus. Hooray!

I started a private journal in which I write in Japanese. It’s probably riddled with errors, but at this point I just really need to start thinking about the language more. I feel like my study of Japanese has become stagnant over the past few months, and video games aren’t helping me. I keep coming across the same words over and over again and still have no idea what they mean. Maybe if I actually write every day in the language it will help me with my reading comprehension. At least I hope so.

Speaking of working on comprehension, before I got the idea to make a language diary I decided another excellent idea would be to see if I could understand any unsubbed anime. I decided to try one that I had already seen, although I saw it a long time ago: Pokemon! I downloaded the raws of the first two episodes, and to be honest, I understood more than I thought I would. Additionally, the show is a lot more childish than I remember when I watched it those early mornings before middle school. Oh well.

I just.. I don’t know. It seems to me that I’m not going to get much better unless I actually go there. And I can’t do that until I graduate with a four-year degree. And I can’t do that until I pass calculus.

You know, all three years of it.

I’m not exactly off to the best start.

Still, if I can manage to pass it over the summer and then two more consecutive years, I can still theoretically graduate at some point in the 2009-2010 school year. It’ll probably also require me to take some sciences courses over next summer.

I’m excited about my classes for fall semester ‘08. I get to take operating systems, which is gonna be great. I don’t know what it’s going to be about, but I’m sure I’m going to enjoy it for two reasons: one, it’s an interesting subject and I’ve always found low-level computing really interesting, and two, the class is taught by the same teacher who taught my Java class, and I enjoyed her teaching style. Also she is a really cool professor.

That’s just about it for me tonight. I’ll update later. Probably tomorrow, as I have zero finals tomorrow. Zot!