Is certainly a major topic on the minds of many people these days, more so in a world that now abides, survives even, on the laws of digital commerce. Such a concept comes in several forms; it can be as horrifying as waking up to your bank accounts showing a grand total of zen zen, zero.
Or, in my case, it could as trivial as someone using my favicon design and nickname as their online persona. Without prior permission.
Observe the favicon in the address bar of whatever browser you’re currently using to access this site at the moment. Then click here and watch, very carefully, as that logo transforms itself into a much more compressed version of itself, as if by magic.
This semester has certainly wasted no time in dumping on the assignments. Strangely, while the workload is definitely less, I find myself much more stressed than usual. Perhaps it’s been my recent re-discovery of the concept of procrastination, that wonderful indulgence which, much like smoking, leaves you gasping for breath, utterly exhausted, after having experienced its throes.
Some would probably disagree and say that’s sex. Anyway.
So it’s over. This semester, at any rate.
It’s hard to summarize how I feel at this point. It’s been rather hectic, the past few weeks, mainly because I was juggling a cacophony of projects at once, along with the newly-added dangers of the environment.
I am, of course, talking about snow.
I’ve been here now for about two months? Three? Things are slowly but surely settling down, with me (more or less) working out a routine of sorts for my never-ending assignments, my apartment maintenance, and my regular re-assurances to my parents that I am eating/living fine.
It’s been gratifying to make the middle of the semester without handing in any assignment late thus far, I suppose: I am actually rather relieved that the mid-term so-called “exams” were nothing more than glorified quizzes of sorts, in that they were probably designed for people coming out of Primary 6 rather than the goddamn Army: it meant that, although I spent a grand total of absolutely no time at all studying for them, I managed to come out with some rather impressive scores (in my opinion).
In any rate, far better than some other students who love to talk in class, love to ask the tutors questions, and still hand in assignments late.
I actually have not listened to the Linkin Park song of the same name, to be honest, even though, rather embarrassingly, I must admit, I do happen to have a few of their offerings in my foobar playlist.
No, this post is literally about what I’ve been working my ass off on for the past few weeks in Digipen.
No, I have not bought hats. Actually, I despise hats, if only for the fact that they degrade situational awareness in many cases, and also because they’re incredibly uncomfortable.
Unfortunately, no, this post is to bring my mind a little more up to speed with how my 4-year epic in the United States has gone thus far.