As I read, you type and we hear the same song.. Which reminds me, I actually did run away once as a younger child. Nobody was able to get their hands on me, and police red tape prevented Metro from verifying my identity, thus prolonging the escape. Eventually I walked back into my mother's loving arms. We had a Subway on our way back home. You know, I hate Subways. I grew up eating too much of it... Having eaten so many Subways I've come to convince myself the magnitude of my distastefulness of it.
At the moment, I'm simply free-writing/typing. So.. I am supposed to be Leo the blogger correct? Right! =)
There exist, in a very specific folder, a number of blog drafts that have dwelled in that very specific folder for a while now. Wow-zers. Man, oh man. It's true. It's finally reach the point where I don't even have enough of a life to have a "life" on MySpace (a new low?). But guess what world! I ate sushi last Friday! I almost forgot how raw fish tasted like and it's good to be reminded periodically. Wouldn't you agree on this periodic reminder I speak of?
It's past mid-night at this moment. Lately I've been getting into the habit of waking up around 4am in the mornings, mondays to fridays, but tomorrow's labor day so.. This means that I'm going to not wake up at 4:00 in the morning tomorr--- today*. I have about 11 hours of homework to wrap up by Tuesday. >_<!
11 hours of homework seems like an overstatement, however, it's true.. At the rate I'm grinding through my textbooks and solving HW problems it's at an estimated 11 hr more. 6 hours of sleep soon.. Leo sometimes finds himself acting like a walking zombie. You see, the college life of a nearly-over-credit-load-taking-college-student leaves little time for the "fun". Fortunately, reading through very interesting books with mind blowing information is entertaining enough inofitself to the extent that the amount of arbitrary math involved is kept to a minimum. Leo states this because well.. you see. Leo makes a clear distinction between boring arbitrary math and fun(er) application based math. Trust me, when you stare down at a new problem and it takes you 20+ min. to finish it, you begin to learn a lot about yourself. More to the point, you start noticing how long it takes for your mind to loose sight of the fact that you have to finish a problem and eventually you begin timing yourself to see how long it takes your mind to stop paying attention. It's a very common occurrence. Speaking with my fellow colleagues, I find that 9 out of 10 students loose conciseness after working through a problem for more than 8min. It turns out, if it takes you more than 7 min. to grind through one problem, you're better off simply taking a break and coming back 10min. later because once you hit that 8min. mark, you begin day dreaming. After a few conversation with colleagues (mostly from the engineering field) we came to a conclusion that the true goal of any homework assignment is to be able to race through any individual problem in under 7 min. Most people have an attention span of 8-15min. It usually takes some sort of funny action, or some attention getting moment to snap a person back into attention ( I recently attended an anthropology lecture in which the professor made a funny joke (regarding drugs, chimps, and experiments he conducted once upon a time...) about every 15min (I was timing him). This guy was a pro. He knew what he was doing). So ya.. the goal is to be able to finish any problem under 7min.
I believe now, that the aimless rambling has finished.
A topic
Tips for incoming students:
1: Don't rely on coffee to get you through the day. Been there done it, it's not healthy.. Having to rely on coffee directly implies a failure on your part to manage your time efficiently.
2: You're an adult. You don't need to take notes, you don't need to come to class. You don't even need to enroll. But you are.. You get what you make of it because 5, 10 years from this point you'll be on your own with no professor spoon feeding you the theorems.
3: It's recommended that you don't over burden yourself with courses..
4: The human body needs at least 6-8 hours of sleep daily. 4.5hr to 5.5hr is really pushing it.
5: If you don't live on campus, pack you're own lunch/dinner/breakfast. $6+ dollars to spend each day for co-me-da makes you a poorer person. And you're a college student, so by definition,the guy panhandling for money over by the intersection has more money than you.
6: Remember those computer games and countless hours of TV watching you used to enjoy? Say good bye to them, for you shaln't see them till winter come.
Leo has now reached the point of tired-iness. Leo hopes that this pointless blog entry gets accepted by the general MySpace community and receives at least one constructive comment.
Leo will now proceed to post this unprofessional blog entry and he will stop dictating (is this the right word to use here?) his thought process.
Some final remarks: As aforementioned, I've some content in a "draft" folder that has never seen the light of day (the new COSH strip has an actual background! But it's no longer stick figure-like..) This PMNB is simply something I'm posting at this moment to kinda "fill the gab" until next time. The life of Leo is a little bewildering at the moment. I usually only get weekends to do the things I like to do (like eat sushi!). <--- see how the explanation point went inside the closing parentheses and has a period following after? That's not proper punctuation. I'll try to take part in the MySpace community every now and again. You'll get a kudo or a happy-face comment from Leo whenever I get around to reading you blog. I have not ceased to exist yet!
Good night, good day, good evening all.
-Mr.Leo
(You may replay the techno song if you wish. Groove Coverage is a good band don't you all agree?)
"I want to know the structure of your heart!" La! La! La! Oh, oh, oh. I want to run away. You told me nothing else buy lies! Oh! oh, oh! La! La! la!