Pete's Log: comp arch
Entry #781, (School)(posted when I was 22 years old.)
Dr Uhran cracks me up. He showed up late, I'm sure, to comp arch today. He then proceeded in silence to rearrange things to his liking before addressing us. His main concerns: no auditors and no food or drink. It's looking like this class is gonna be easy, there's several students who've not any comp arch background, so the class is gonna start pretty much from scratch. On the other hand, I think I will get something out of it, it looks like I'll need to give several presentations, which will be good for me, and I think we write a simulator at some point, which should be fun... Dr Uhran and I have a fun history. He's basically the reason I'm still in computer science. I was toying with the idea of switching to government until my sophomore year when he told me I was more suited to be an A&L major than an engineering major. To prove him wrong I stuck with CSE. And now, as my final act of defiance, I shall ace his class. Buahahahaha. Scott Hampton, having returned to ND, is gonna be the TA. So that's cool. I've also decided that other than his habit of pronouncing RISC as risik, I like Uhran's voice for lecturing. I should be able to pay attention when (or if) I need to. Finally, an amusing anecdote: he was trying to figure out people's backgrounds and so was asking if people had programmed in assembly. One kid he was talking to somehow managed to state that he'd programmed in Visual Basic instead. I found that mighty amusing.