Time to Breathe...

Okay, so my grades turned out quite a bit better than I expected. Whew. Now I have a bit of time to relax, before things get slightly crazy again.

In addition to all of the academics, there are a few other things I've learned this semester:

-No matter how much one might detest writing papers and sitting through classes where certain biases are treated as fact, taking nothing besides ECE and CS classes is actually a terrible idea.
-TA's who come to your room to fix eclipse on your FC4 box, while very nice people, might still well make your life miserable in the end by re-engineering all of the programming labs to make them more "rigorous".
-No matter how much one might try, it really is impossible to subsist entirely on Nutri-Grain bars and Spaghetti-O's.
-For more than half a week, anyways.
-Sleeping well the night before a test doesn't help much if you pulled an all nighter two nights previously.
-In general, however, the human body needs amazingly little sleep to actually function.
-Campus is extremely beautiful early in the morning.
-Pittsburgh has more bridges than any other city in America, and the number is second in the world only to Venice.
-Friendship (and girl talk) can fix almost anything.
-For everything else, there exist shopping and Disney movies.
-I am much, much more right brained than I thought previously.
-I am more extroverted than I thought previously.
-Having high expectations is perfectly reasonable, having unrealistic expectations is not.
-"Everyone else is doing it" is a terrible reason to do homework on a Friday night.
-"It's this or an all nighter on Tuesday, or possibly both" is much more acceptable.
-Living in a suite full of ECE girls means that nobody is going to have hair spray on the one occasion out of the year you actually want some.
-It also means that five minutes later, you don't care anymore because you just figured out a better way to do your hair.
-There may full well come a point in one's life where games of tic-tac-toe with one's peers becomes a hopeless endeavor if one actually wishes for any outcome besides "draw."
-Which is okay because hopeless games of tic-tac-toe still mean that you're sitting there in Bravo doodling on the paper table coverings, momentarily satisfying your inner child.
-No circuits textbook is complete without problems in the section on power outlining various situations in which people do stupid things with lots of electricity, and die in every single one of them. Really good circuits textbooks have illustrations of such situations (pre-traumatic death, of course).
-Being an ECE girl means that you scare a fair number of guys. Which is okay, because they're pansies anyways.