I’ve had a crazy day so far. I had to wake up early to get to class, which was dif­fi­cult enough con­sid­er­ing the fact that I stayed up later than nor­mal work­ing on my DNA essay yes­ter­day. I’m sup­posed to write a six page sum­mary on some­one else’s research paper. I found a good one yes­ter­day morn­ing, so I worked on it for most of the day. About half-way through I found out that the paper wasn’t long enough. I’d only have enough mate­r­ial to write for about 2.5 pages. So I basi­cally had to start over again at 8:30 pm. I found an even bet­ter one though; it’s longer and has less con­fus­ing lin­ear algebra.

Then I had to do the cryp­tog­ra­phy pre­sen­ta­tion today. On the week-end I wrote most of the final report, which ended up being 17 pages once I was done with it. Dina should be adding a few more pages too. The entire project came together today for the pre­sen­ta­tion. We had to present to two TAs, and we ended up doing fairly well. Some pre­sen­ta­tions some­how lasted an hour…ours was only about ten min­utes. Even the dif­fi­cult TA said that we did a good job, which made me happy. We lit­er­ally pulled it together at the last minute, while other groups were presenting.

I bought a Via six-pack today, which I’m guess­ing is only avail­able to full-time stu­dents. My ISIC expires this December, so I need to get a new one or I’ll be stuck at home. John’s prob­a­bly com­ing up on the 20th to stay for a few days, and he’ll drive me back. The only prob­lem is get­ting back from there. I’m still a full-time stu­dent next semes­ter, but one of the courses I need to reg­is­ter for doesn’t show on my timetable. Since that prob­a­bly won’t be until the next school semes­ter, I won’t be able to pur­chace an ISIC card until then, which I will need to use my six-pack. I tried to talk to my bitch of an aca­d­e­mic advi­sor about the issue, but she gets every other day off, one of them being today.