Math Minor Man

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So I am officially a Math minor. I dropped my History class and I picked up Calculus III. Something I thought I would never do in a million damn years last semester having to deal with Calc II. I was convinced to take it because of how it compared to II. Also I looked up how close I actually was to a math minor because I have been taking class for class with all Math majors since my first semester at Scranton.

Turns out that I am 4 classes away, 2 classes of which I am currently taking and one more of which is in the CS curriculum later down the road. Very cool.

The farther I delve into math I find it more and more interesting. Some things that you can do in Calculus just boggle my mind and some of it is actually really cool.

So here is my updated class list...

Analysis III - 9:00-9:50 MTWR
Theory of CS - 11:00-11:50 MWF
Machine Organization - 12:00 - 12:50 MWF
Physics II - 1:00-1:50 MWF
Linear Algebra - 3:00 - 3:50 MWF
Physics Lab - 1:00 - 2:50 R

Yeah so thats my crap schedule. There is no getting around it since 4 of my classes listed have ONE section...

Scrantastic.

Anyways I said before that I was very excited about having two computer classes. I am no longer excited. Theory blows, its a terrible class. Machine is great. We learn almost as in depth into a computer as the circuits of a processor but I have to wait until Computer Architecture for that one.

I also went home this past weekend to pick up my car and go to a concert in Philadelphia to see Incubus on Monday. It was a lot of fun but more on that later.

-Bill

First Day

Today is the first day of classes...

I got: Theoretical Foundations of Computer Science - 11:00am-11:50am
Machine Organization and Assembly Programming - 12:00pm-12:50pm
Physics II - 1:00pm-1:50pm
Then an hour break I guess I'll take for lunch...
Linear Algebra - 3:00pm-3:50pm

So all in all four classes not too bad. I'm excited for my 2 computer classes this semester so we'll see how that goes. I'll keep you posted...

-Bill

NFC and AFC Conference Champions

Yeah yeah, everyones talking about these great, amazing, exciting games I'm not denying they weren't but some of the hype that was put on the games was rather much. I'll go after each team and game separately.

NFC Championship: Chicago Bears vs. New Orleans Saints

The Saints got beat, simple as that. They didn't come up as intense as they did against the eagles the week before. They ran the ball to Deuce a handful of times. Who does that? The same Deuce that ran all over my Eagles was hardly noticeable on the field against one of the poorer rushing defenses in the NFC. It was stupid and I can't see why this could have possibly been overlooked.
The Bears. The only thing I can say about the Bears is that they sure know how to get those turnovers. I'm pretty sure that the Bears forced 4 turnovers during the game. That is huge. It really did turn the game around for the Bears who had a sloppy start. I really don't know about
Rex Grossman. I still don't think he is a solid quarterback he threw some throws that he had absolutely no business throwing including that one TD pass to Berrian. Any pass coverage that had their heads screwed on right could've ate that pass alive. To be cliche the SuperBowl is really going to be the ultimate test being put up against Peyton Manning. Please Rex step aside...


AFC Championship: New England Patriots vs. Indianapolis Colts...

The Patriots dominated the first quarter and a half of this game. I was so disgusted with the way the Colts were playing I told my Dad that I wasn't watching this garbage anymore. An hour later my Dad said hey the Colts are on a drive they are making a comeback. Yeah the Patriots blew it. They came out with the right attitude but left it in the locker room after halftime. People talk about how Brady really was not the hero he should have been. Thats crap. You expect a Brady, hell any quarterback in the NFL to be able to drive down 80 yards in under a minute to play? Oh and you can't settle for a field goal, you have to get the touchdown to WIN. You can't even tie. If Brady was able to do that I would've just given him the damn SuperBowl trophy because theirs no way Rex can pull half of that off. I'm not a Patriots fan in the least but saying he choked is just childish.

The Colts on the other hand, hats of to them and to Peyton Manning. He turned a crap offense of no name receivers and a rookie running back into an actual offense and came back against almost dominating Patriots defense. A lot of mistakes and turnovers really turned this game in favor for the Colts making lesser mistakes and taking advantage of the ones the Patriots made. What a game.

The teams I wanted to win in these game won. So what more would I want for the SuperBowl? Maybe one day an Eagles SuperBowl. Wishful thinking I suppose...

Still dreaming green...

-Bill

Catholic Schools

The private Catholic elementary schools in Havertown are seriously struggling. Some have already closed down but still others are struggling to stay open and attract new students and families to the church.

Havertown is one of the biggest Irish Catholic populated areas in the Philadelphia area so why are the schools suffering? Is it because the town is getting older and not getting enough families moving in? Or is it because of more families sending their kids to public schools?

Not really.

I'm sure that these things may affect them they are mostly affected by money. Catholic schools used to thrive when they had nuns to teach the classes. Nuns could teach at a Catholic elementary school and not get paid for it. This brought in a lot of revenue for the schools and helped them to attract more students.

It's a shame to think that my old grade school and others like Annunciation and Sacred Heart could be closing down. It really does take away from the character of Havertown I just hope things change...

-Bill

Eagles vs. Saints

Holy crap what a great game. The final score of the game was 27-24. With all the odds against them the Eagles led the Saints though much of the game. We were completely overcome by Drew Brees who was damn close to perfect throwing no interceptions. Our defense seemed like it was falling apart every time the ball was put into Deuce McAllister's hands as well.

Although the Eagles offense continued to pound away valiantly led by our backup quarterback coming off of a five game winning streak Jeff Garcia had some serious pressure put on him by the Saints defense throughout the game. Brian Westbrook, Reggie Brown and Dante Stallworth all had incredible games including a 65 yard TD run by Westbrook and a 75 TD reception from Dante Stallworth...

It was truly a hard fought battle by both teams with clearly the better team winning.

I hope they get killed in the rest of the playoffs...

But some good news! Brian Dawkins was resigned and he is good to go for another Eagles season...

Great season Eagles...

-Bill

Eagles Fans

Sunday I went to the Eagles game versus the New York Giants. I got tickets for my girlfriend and their family and they graciously took me along with them. The tickets were in the 200 level around the corner of the east endzone where most of the action did not happen.

Now I have been to a few more Eagles games than that of other people. I have always had relatively good seats too. In an Eagles game pretty much every seat is a good seat but mine were pretty good. I'm lucky. But this time the seats were much farther they and in the very corner of section 216.

Despite the seats it was the best time I have ever had. I was never more proud to be an Eagles fan that night. The people were incredible up there. It was like a Prep Football game all over again. No one sat down everyone was screaming their head off there were chants every two seconds echoing E-A-G-L-E-S EAGLES!! Coming from every direction. It was the best time I have ever had at an Eagles game.

That is defiantly the reason why Eagles fans are the 12th man every home game.

It came down to the wire with my boy Koy Detmer who was just resigned by Andy Reid to replace A.J. I was overjoyed when Koy was resigned. He has always been the replacement quarterback and has always been one of my favorite Eagles. Along with Brian Dawkins, one of the coolest guys and best safetys in the NFL. I could go on and on about the Eagles but until another day.

Lets go birds!

-Bill