Joe Auricchio

How can it already be week three? Every quarter goes by faster than the last.

Classes are going as well as can be expected. I’m struggling through Tuesdays and Thursdays (though last week I only went for six of the seven-and-a-half hours a day: still can’t stand Kube’s lecture style).

• Cogs10 is interesting stuff. Design (user-centered); Human-tech. Design as a non-optional part of any creative or technical process.
• Cogs101C… not quite so interesting. I might drop it, since I only need one of the “C” courses. I didn’t know linguistics was so close to computer science though: binary trees, generative grammars, and such.
• CSE100 isn’t bad, now that I’ve mostly gotten past Java syntax. I think I’m still going to enjoy rewriting the assignments in C more though.
• CSE105 is great fun: I have a good intuitive grasp of all the concepts we’ve done so far, especially finite state automata. Rhodes is as great as professor as I remember from CSE21 last summer. Tip of the hat to Dad for teaching me about finite state machines in a much more concrete implementation, when came to see UCSD almost exactly two years ago. I think Paul said it best: Pumping Lemma would be a great name for a band.

Has it been two years since I first saw the UCSD campus? I don’t even know what two years is. It’s nothing, it’s a lifetime. I know I’ve changed a lot since high school, mostly for the better I think. I’m certainly less antisocial than I used to be. I feel like I fit better in college than I ever did in high school. (#sdcolleges people: <3)

– this was previously semi-secret!

On Friday night, Jess and I went out to dinner. We drove around for a while being indecisive about restaurants, before ending up at Tofu House on Convoy St. After dinner we went to Nijiya and bought various Japanese groceries (Jess got a lot of candy among other things; I picked up a few bottles of my beloved Ito En O~i Ocha). Then we drove up to Mt Soledad and looked out over the lights of the city. The rain had stopped by then and night was wondrously clear and we could see for miles. The moon was something out of a song: “white and full like a pale ghost across the sky”.

All in all I had a great time with Jess, and I think (hope?) she did too.

(I think she reads this. Hi Jess! ^_^)

–so if you happened to find this semi-hidden post… well things didn’t go anywhere. but Jess is still really cool.

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