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Physics "quiz" at 11:30. It was a 15-question multiple choice thing where your score doesn't actually matter. That is, if you were on time and actually took it, you get a free homework grade. I felt it was pretty easy considering I did not prepare for it at all; it was mostly qualitative stuff like understanding the concepts, which I am better at than actually doing problems.

Then actual physics lecture at noon, some stuff about the a- and a+ operator stuff and something

Data structures at 1pm, more on binary search trees, some different types (went over AVL trees). I drew a binary tree inside a rectangle. It went all the way to the edge of the rectangle. Anyway, some very brief overview of B+ trees at the end, then got our third assignment.

Solid state at 3pm. Uhh... yeah. I don't remember. I drew a lot of boxes and perspective things. Got our assignment at the end, due on Tuesday.

Walked home at 5pm, 4929 steps

took subway to school, played pokemon

solid state at 4pm, learned something or other. Exam is on the 10th

physics recitation at 5pm, had a quiz about a thing related to physics

walked home at 6pm

(This was yesterday)

Physics at noon, learned something or other

Data structures at 1pm, discussion about the second programming assignment, and then trees (i.e. binary trees)

Solid State at 3pm, learned something or other also

Computer center at 5pm, worked on matlab portions of signals homework with friend

went home at about 6:15pm, then went to a restaurant at about 7:30, until 9pm.

Rest of the day spent doing signals homework

productivity day

finished 18 page paper for HSS (still have to change the annotated bibliography for tomorrow)

3pm: played pokemon on subway, still at Twist mountain. First pokemon I encountered in there turned out to be a fairly uncommon one, which is great.

4pm: solid state, small signal (AC) analysis of BJTs, got exam back at the end, I got the same score as last time, except this time that score was 10 points above the average (whereas last test it was 6 points below average), so now I am 4 points above average after two exams.

5pm: physics recitation, had quiz, not entirely sure if I did well but I would certainly hope so

6pm: went home, finished physics homework (which I didn't realize was due tomorrow until someone told me today), it was fairly straightforward except one problem. Then did comp arch assignment (programming a pic using assembly, it was mainly just figuring out how to use the MPLAB IDE)

Physics at noon, infinite square well

Data structures at 1pm, selection algorithms (i.e. select the kth smallest item) and got our third assignment, or rather project because those are two different things

Solid state exam at 3pm, it was "what is this" and think I ended up learning how to do most of it during the exam (and I thought "ohh so that's what we were doing in class")

We were allowed one sheet (front and back) with whatever we wanted to write on it, and so here is mine (the writing and diagrams are tiny, more noticeable in real life) but only ended up using the stuff in red (which didn't actually help all too much). Anyway I am hoping some of that stuff was correct

Took subway home at about 5pm, the subway wasn't nearly as crowded as last week, and I actually had a place to sit (I read some of the HSS stuff and one of the books I borrowed from Bobst was perfect for my research topic thing)

Solid state at 4pm, something about small signal analysis of BJTs and r subscript pi

Physics recitation at 5pm, quiz about normalizing probability amplitudes, and I got it correct which is cool

Walked home at 6pm, it was raining very slightly but not enough for me to feel like getting out my umbrella

3573 steps

Physics at noon, minimum energy of a spring-mass system, then went over Fourier series stuff

Data structures at 1pm, went over non-comparative sorts (binsort and least significant digit radix sort) and indirect sorting (using pointers, array indices)

Solid state at 3pm, I'm not sure what we learned but it was probably something

5pm: Went to McDonald's, got a sweet tea that tasted pretty weird, it almost tasted like milk tea except not. Or I guess a less sweetened sweet tea. In any case it was not like it usually was. Took subway home, and since it was rush hour, it was crowded and I didn't get to sit down anywhere but that is okay