As usual, I suck at blogging. I really only do it when I'm here, at the library taking a break from insane amounts of math. I just finished my diffeq homework, and the only problem I couldn't solve was one that involved a cubic polynomial because I forget how to factor them, which seems to happen too often in that class. I understand the differential equation and how to solve it, but I get stuck on elementary algebra because I just haven't done it in so long. Now all that is left on my to-do list is a few problems for my other math class that I need to teach myself. I would have gotten help, but my TA blew off his office hours today, which pissed me off a little.

In a few weeks I have to register for classes for next semester. At this point I'm pretty sure I'm either going to do computer science or IT, both of which would be cool. Basically the difference is that computer science focuses more on software and technology and IT focuses on applications of it. I met with my adviser on Monday and received little advice. Since I'm undeclared, I randomly got assigned a physics professor as an adviser, and consequently he can't tell me much about any other subject. Nearly every question I asked was answered with "I'm going to give you my biased opinion." Great. Just what I wanted. Ideally I'm going to try to set up a meeting with an adviser for each of these departments to get some better information.

The part that sucks about both of these majors is that I can really only take two technical classes next semester because I won't meet the prerequisite for any of the later ones, which means I have two open credits to fill. I think I'm going to fill one of them with IT in History and Society, which is a required Humanities course for the IT curriculum. Hopefully, this will give me a feel for IT as well as fill one of my Humanities requirements that I have to fill regardless of my major. I'm undecided on how to fill the other credit. I could take another Psych course for the hell of it because it would fill a requirement and put me halfway towards a minor. Or I could explore another concentration to pair with IT, such as finance and take an accounting course. In the IT department you pick a concentration to learn computer applications of and take electives in that field, so taking a class like this would give me a feel for finance which I think would be interesting, but does not fill any requirement unless I end up choosing it. Registration is annoying. Any thoughts are appreciated.