As usual, I’ve been super busy.

I took the J-Ken Practical Information test (level 2) and passed. I’m expecting an 80-90% score on it. My friends say that I could have passed level 1 with no problems, but I’m glad I just stuck with level 2. It feels good to do well on one of those bloody tests.

Other than that, it’s been the same old grind: class, homework, AS duties, with occasional breaks where I hang out with friends. I had to give a 5 minute presentation on Wednesday for the AS. I’m actually pretty miserable at getting up in front of people and talking so it was pretty brutal, especially since I had to stand there and listen to criticism afterwards. But, hey, the only way to get better is to do these things so whatever.

I think I failed the big CS test we had on Thursday, partly because I didn’t have any time to study and partly because it was half math problems and I have trouble with those. I don’t feel that I got even 50% of the questions right, so I might have to retake it. These were actually student-made problems, and I think the math problems were harder than the ones on the real test are because those at least tend to be a little better with using intuitive numbers (calculators aren’t allowed). Oh well.

My winter break starts today, but I don’t think it’s going to be very restful. First off, I have a lot of homework. I already finished my CASL homework, but I have 100 CS problems to do, a 1 page report on something relating to the Showa period, two reports on what we would do with a DVD that had 1TB of memory (for a contest, which means we also give up our rights to the ideas we come up with… boo), and create a mini text-based RPG (I’m modeling mine after MUDs). And I need to find the time to do all that in between my my AS duties (I have a work shift Monday morning, a meeting with my group mates about the AS New Years’ party, etc) and other plans.

The next few weeks are going to be fun, but not exactly more restful than my normal schedule…