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331: AND SMASH IT WITH A HAMMER

330: A college student's two favorite things

I read a post once about a college student's two favorite things, those being "free" and "cancelled". I would like to add one more thing to that list; "postponed". In much the same way that "cancelled" is great, "postponed&

329: Microcontrollers

EE 329 is the Microcontrollers class I'm in right now, so I had to name the post after it. 329 has been hard, but it's mostly just been annoying, by which I mostly just mean that the professor is a dummy. He's an AI

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328: One Fistful

Today was pretty good.

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327: HE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS

Howdy howdy folks, El here. I'm hijacking the blog again for a little note of gratitude. I was doing some journaling and reflecting on this year, and it didn't take me long to go down the "God I love my friends" rabbit hole. I&

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326: The Cat in the Box Should Always be Presumed Alive

I found this title in a funny web comic that I read sometimes, as a part of in-universe laws, and I loved it. In context, it was "so as not to begin premature litigation of will", but I like it as a philosophy. I like to think of

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325: Above Suspicion

My brain did the thing again today and it's kinda pissing me off. I had a great idea for a title earlier, and I remember the vague genre of what it was and I was going to talk about it, but I didn't write it down,

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324: Busy day, Empty Calendar

Today was a little strange, but honestly worked out quite well. I started today with (eventually, it grew) 20 things on my to-do list, only two of them checked off (yesterday and Sunday), and finished another 10 things throughout the day, which feels good. Not all of those things are

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323: Second Sunday

Today was fantastic. The 2nd Sunday in a weekend is usually better than the first, because you know in your heart that you weren't supposed to have it, so you enjoy it all the more. My particular situation is fantastic, because I only have 1 class on Tuesdays,

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322: First Sunday

Lazy Sunday, as they say. Today was great. El and I slept in quite a bit; and got out of bed at ~12:45. We had to part ways for the afternoon, however, because we both desperately needed to shower, and then both had some homework that needed to get

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321: Butterflies

Today is-was a lore-accurate college Saturday. I'm writing this section pretty early, so I can get better at this whole going-to-bed-on-time thing. Not that this will be solved or relevant tonight, I'm on call.

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320: Virtual Insanity

Virtual Insanity is a song by Jamiroquai that I've fallen in love with relatively recently, I love it. The rest of the album is also quite good, but to be honest I've grown to like it because Virtual Insanity is the first song, so I necessarily

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319: Loss is a difficult thing

The title today is in reference to a post that was made by Bungie, the company that makes Destiny 2, the single video game in which I have the most hours (it's not close). We (the Destiny community) had known for a while that Destiny 2 has essentially

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318: My Magnus Opus

The title is a joke because a good friend of mine misspoke earlier and I noticed; it was funny enough that I chose it as my title. The photo I used is also amazing. Today's been super busy, but it's been good. I don't

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317: I wanna take up all your time

I had to go double-check that I hadn't used this title yet, because I honestly thought I had. It's a line from Harry Styles' Pop, which is maybe my favorite song off his most recent album, though it is full of bangers.

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316: Everything, in order

Today was super busy, but it was pretty good. I had my registration at 8 AM this morning, which means I had to get up for it (I went right back to bed don't worry), and it went terrible. There are not enough slots in the EE tech

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315: Movie night!

Today was very good.

314: Productive Procrastination

I got out of bed at 2PM today, which was kinda lovely. I didn't have anything that I needed to be immediately working on, so I had the bandwidth to not worry about sleeping in a whole lot. The title is about the only thing that I actually

313: Actual Friday

Today was a pretty damn good Friday, but if I'm being honest it's because I did almost no work. I had class 12-3, but I woke up at like 9:30, showered, and then was able to grab myself a campus market breakfast burrito before I

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312: Business Friday

Thursdays at Cal Poly are "Business Fridays", because the college of business literally has no classes on Fridays. None. Business students never have class on Friday. Ever. It's bullshit, but it is a nice way to make fun of them when they're getting raucous

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311: California Penal Code

311 is the name of a band I like, and if the story I was told is correct (I think it's funny so I believe it), it's named 311 because that's the California penal code for streaking, which the frontman of the band was

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310: THE CHAMPIONS

The most important thing today, unquestionably, is that WE WON THE COMPETITION. There's some amount of drama involved and I feel a little bad not telling the whole story, but I'm really tired, and I'm seriously not firing on all cylinders right now, so

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309: No time to stop and smell the roses

The title is an idea I had this morning, because there's a very aromatic flower bed on the walk to where we have our team rooms set up, and I didn't have time this morning to stop and smell them. BUT, this evening I actually did

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308: THE GOATTTT

This title is in honor of Brian, one of my good friends, and another RA in my building, who restarted the server in a solid 9 minutes. He was on call tonight, so I didn't feel too bad calling him to ask, and we got it back up

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307: Oh Boy

I got ~5.5 hours of sleep last night, so I think I was relatively cranky all day today, but the happenings definitely did not help. Everything has been resolved now, as I write this, but it was very annoying. The day started out great though, honestly. I'd