Nick’s Blog

Well, another way to systematically destroy an engineer is to force him to cram for a test in dynamic systems and control. Here it is after 1am and I’ve been studying all day for a test that I still feel rather unprepared for. Still, I feel compelled to comment that the only thing between be and the sweet release of spring break at camp bob cooper is Wednesday.

I’m actually in pretty high spirits, as my RedRover project turned out very well, and this new laptop has given me nothing but content since I deleted every trace of Windows Vista from it’s bowels.

I did find out some very depressing news today though. I haven’t had a good complain-about-Carnegie-Mellon moment in a while, so I feel the need to comment about my disgust upon hearing that our spring carnival musical performer is none other than Sisqo. Yep, thats right, the thong song guy. Way to go Carnegie Mellon. Generic 90’s hip hop, thats been sold out and stale since I’ve hit puberty, and has no musical benefits to my ears. I do not want to cram myself into our gym all excited about carnival and have to accept that I have to listen to some under-achieving musician talk over sampled loops of boring rhythms and very little real musical content. Maybe I’m over analyzing this and would be better suited to say, CMU, the thong song sucked in 2000, why bring it back in 2008?

Carnival will still be fun, even though Sisqo is a huge downer. That, and if I stay committed to semester’s goals, I’ll spend all 4 days of carnival as a stone-cold sober. I’ve kept up the semester with this goal superbly until now, but in case you don’t go to CMU, pretty much the whole idea of CMU is to get drunk and party and forget about classes for a weekend. Oh well, the sobriety is paying off and I still feel great, so maybe I’ll enjoy babysitting more.