187: Nooks and Crannies

Today was great!

Italian this morning was great, as usual, and then Bowling was fun. It was our first day actually doing some bowling, all just on free lanes with no record. It was fun, and I did fine. It's been a while, and I'm still unsure in my ball selection, because I need tiny finger holes, but I also spin it, so the bowling-alley type default balls aren't as good for that, which leaves me with only a couple options.

It'll be fun to have that class with Jake though, and we already kinda made friends with another person in the class, though I never caught her name.

After bowling I went to the Italian Conversation Group, and it was amazing. I'm going to keep going to that, the actual practice and real-world use is super helpful for my comprehension and practice, and I get to see friends there that aren't in my class.

My lab today was interesting. The professor seems like she's nice, but she's such a strange combination of nice and strict. She gave one of my friends and I shit for talking (made me read out a section of the lab to the class like we were in fifth grade), and then like 20 minutes later complained that nobody was talking? I don't really get it, but I'm also not afraid of that kind of thing anymore. I could barely contain my laughter as I was forced to read through the following:

.MODEL NMOD1 NMOS (L=3U W=6U KP=69U GAMMA=0.37
+LAMBDA=0.06 RD=1 RS=1 VTO=1.0 TOX=0.04U
+CBD=2F CBS=2F CJ=200U CGBO=200P CGSO=40P CGDO=40P)

I was stupid and dramatic about it, and declared every space with the word space, and named every single punctuation mark explicitly (close parenthesis). I laughed, and so did many of the others, but it was definitely a weird thing for her to do.

We did a pretty simple simulation as a lab 0, it wasn't too bad. We had to just figure out one of the things (importing the model above), because she said she would tell us how to, but she took so damn long explaining to one of the other groups we just figured it out.

I have a number of friends in that class, and the actual experiments seem like they'll probably be fun, and not too difficult.

She did say that if you forget to do the pre-lab, you won't even be allowed in the room, and also that once you finish, you are kicked out. She was explicit that you aren't allowed to stay in the room to work on the lab report, which seems very particular for no reason.

We did get out of lab pretty early though (it was the first day), so that was nice.