4th suicide in 4 months? This needs to stop. Now. People need to talk. School isn't even fun anymore. Don't leave. Come back. Where are you going? People are waiting for you.
4th suicide in 4 months? This needs to stop. Now. People need to talk. School isn't even fun anymore. Don't leave. Come back. Where are you going? People are waiting for you.
ATDP is going by so fast. I feel like I'm in a dream, almost. Except it's extremely realistic =] Well, idk how to describe it. And for a while now I've been exceptionally nervous to post things up because I found out how little privacy and control I have over this blog. Not that I would expect anyone to abuse it, but, with little ease... actually, I'm not going to talk about it.
As with TIC, it's definitely not the same without Trev. Not that it's Alex's fault, he's working pretty hard despite having to replace Trev. I feel that the students have become a lot more... unenthusiastic, or maybe I'm just wrong and it's just the group of students this year. I definitely miss him though, it's amusing that I'm reminded of him every time I see a squirrel on Berkeley campus.
Java... ah, there's a story. It's been extremely frustrating dealing with the people who need help. It seems that they don't understand anything that you say and that the information just goes through one ear and out the other. Being a new TA this year doesn't help either, even if the other people are just joking about it. I guess I'd have to experience this eventually, it'll be pretty funny for me to look back on when I'm done.
As for that Bang! project. For those of you who don't know, I was erm... not assigned, but well, given the idea to program a online Java version of the card game, Bang! I feel that I can accomplish this and that it is definitely manageable for me, but it would take a lot of work. It's that time I think I'm not wanting to commit right now. While the path is clearly laid out for me and I know what I have to do... I don't think I'm ready to do it right now with all that's going on around me. I think I'll wait for ATDP to end and hopefully I'll be able to commit time for it.
I've been recently been playing badminton again too, which reminds me how horrible I am. Even though I can cover the court in time I can never get my shots to be perfect, which... is a big deal. I really wanted to take lessons during the summer but I don't think we have enough money for that. Badminton reminds me a lot of Brawl, actually. While their appearance is completely different they still have a lot in common in my head. They both have a moveset, or certain shots/moves you can do. Also, the way you move around the court/stage has a big involvement in the outcome. And the biggest thing, which always makes me smile, is that they both have mindgames involved. Mindgames is anything that you do that attempts to trick or put pressure on someone. Well... maybe I'm just weird xD.
Also, I just came back from the Apple store because my Macbook Air recently developed a hinge defect. I am able to open the clam shell so that the laptop is almost at 180 degrees. Also, it makes a noise around half way when I'm closing and opening it. It also never stays upright when I want it to. The "geniuses" told me that it was my fault, which, if you've ever seen my laptop, is kind of believable, and then proceeded to offer to send it in for repair for $800. I believed them at first and politely refused the offer, kind of angry, and then went home. When I went home I chanced upon this link which made me extremely confused which turned into anger. I don't think I've ever been this mad at a particular company ever. By the way, there's a class action lawsuit going on because of this problem. It's pretty interesting, but I don't think I'm going to be needing that anytime soon. I'm going to go back to the store tomorrow in hopes to change their previous decision. For now, I guess I'll just go relax and rest up for tomorrow. I'm really conscious about the blog right now, and might opt to stop using it.
Argh, why is this happening to us? Tuesday night was another suicide, made by a senior this time. no one could understand why a senior would suicide but idk. Yesterday night a sophmore TRIED to suicide and failed. Why? Has it suddenly been cool to suicide? What happened to these people to make them go suicide. These were all taken at the same place too, on the CalTrain tracks at one of the big crossstreets. I didn't know either of the last two so I'm not as affected by this. The school atmosphere has become extremely grim. A lot of teachers have either reduced their finals or completely cancelled them. Everyone is heavily impacted by this.