Luke Oliver

105: Blocks and Ping-Pong balls

The title photo, as well as the videos I will hopefully figure out how to embed, are from my freshman year of high school, which was so long ago, but seeing them reminded me of my long-lasting love of building stuff, so I'm going to yap about those

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104: This Changes Everything

This Changes Everything is a song on the TRON: Ares soundtrack, and I'm naming it mostly for the reference, but that entire soundtrack is SO GOOD. The modern TRON movies are unironically carried by their soundtracks, Legacy with Daft Punk, and Ares with Nine Inch Nails. They'

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103: Yuck.

(Yuck is a great song by CharlieXCX, but it isn't what this title is about) I've been sick the last couple days, as I've mentioned in previous posts, and it's largely been better today, I don't have a sore throat,

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102: Hmm, yes, the sound of ripping duck tape.

The title today is about my (very janky) new curtain rod, which was hung up by myself and a couple of my residents using tape, which was an obviously and horrendously terrible plan. It worked for about 28 hours, and then after I got home from Wind Power today, I

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101: The Grocery Store!!

I made it to the store today, thanks to my good friend Chip. It was my first time going in more than a month, and there were a number of things I needed to grab, so it was lovely. I got a longer curtain rod, which is really nice, and

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100: Fire. Alarm.

The fire alarm went off this morning at like 7 AM. It was not a good time. We got everyone outside, and then as soon as the building was evacuated, the alarm stopped. I must commend ccpd for their response time, it definitely lasted shorter than I expected. Apparently there

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99: "Just some bad communication"

This title line is about a whiff Cody and I had today. We went to the new TRON: Ares, which was actually quite good, and then on the way back he pulled me back to campus with his bike (me on skateboard). It mostly worked great, but one of the

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98: Or maybe we just chill out?

Today was surprisingly chill, for having two labs, 7 hours of class, and being on call (so far, I should say). The maelstrom of assignments that I had been under has passed, it seems, and while I likely did not survive with an A, I did survive while turning everything

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97: Optimizing Poorly

This title is about two different things. The first thing is my life, wherein I have always been "poorly optimized". One of the things about my brain is that I'm very good at finding places where I could optimize, "matters of seconds lost on the

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96: Bed?!

I'm writing this post at 10:28 PM, which isn't that early, but is significantly earlier than I have been starting these in previous days, and if I can get this one done in 20-30 minutes, I can be in bed for maybe 8 hours!

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95: Yikes.

I'm writing this one at 11:23, because I am fully incapable of keeping promises to myself, and am a professional procrastinator. I had both a pre-lab and a lab report due tonight at midnight, and we're not even done with the lab report as I&

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94: "Yo, can someone slime my Grandma?"

The title of this one is a bit said by one of my residents, about how it would "provide them with character development". I know they were joking, but it was still an funny bit. "Slime" is a modern internet term that means "take out&

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93: 2 In The Morning Again?!

It's 1:54 AM right now. I need to get better at time management. The main reason it's 1:55 as I write this is that some of my residents and I set up my room as a theater and watched an episode of Our Beloved

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92: IT'S BEDTIME

SHIT. I missed my post yesterday (the 2nd), and it is honestly because I simply didn't have time, but I also just forgot. I had some homework I needed to get done before the deadline, so I got it done, and then was so exhausted and ready to

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91: Due tomorrow? DO tomorrow!

Title of this post is a direct quote from a friend of mine in one of my classes talking about the homework for said class, which neither of us have even looked at. I am fully flying by the seat of my pants right now, and just responding to things

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90: For the Love of the Game!

"For the Love of the Game" is a phrase that's worked itself into the modern lexicon, and is one that I actually adore. It essentially just means 'doing something because you enjoy it', but the vibe and connotation of "For the Love of

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89: Doin some Ranchin'

The title of this post is about Slime Rancher, one of my very favorite video games. The sequel, Slime Rancher 2, recently had a massive update that arguably completed the game (it was the 1.0 update, before last week the game was 'early access', meaning it wasn&

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88: 2000 steps :/

I only have 2082 steps on record today, which feels kinda bad. I spent almost all of today sitting at my desk, locked in on homework, and the only times I got up to go do something (those things being eat lunch and dinner) I didn't walk there,

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87: "It's a charmed life, but we still experience the range of human emotion"

It sure has been another dayTM. I'm super tired again, which I suppose might be good. I haven't been having trouble sleeping recently, because I've operated with so much less overall sleep (I think I've averaged 7 hours for like the last

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86: Yipes

"Yipes" is a thing I've started saying recently, because I think it's funny. It's kind of a combo of Yikes and a looney-tunes-esque yelp sound that's in my brain. I use it frequently, but the origin is bowling with my

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85: Not looking forward to lab reports

This title is in reference to my classes today. I have two labs back to back, 12-3 and 3-6, which is going to be rough.

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84: "redundant makes a better learning!!" -Professor Jin

Professor Jin is my professor for EE 306, the first Semiconductors class, and she has some funny mannerisms. English isn't her first language, and I want to be very clear that I am by no means mocking her, I have been enjoying her class, she's a

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83: AND IT'S A THREE WAY TIE

The title (and photo) today are both about Trivia, one of my very favorite things. I have a solid trivia squad with some of my close friends, and we attend every one of the school's trivia nights (3 or 4 a quarter, usually). Today's trivia was

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82: Kory Sheet Batman!

It's the first monday of school, and it's gone pretty well. It was busy, to be sure, I had four different 1-hour classes, with gaps between, and the first Wind Power meeting was tonight, and a smashing success!

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81: All Quiet

I got off RA on call duty a few hours ago, but it's functionally the same as if I was on duty. Absolutely nothing happened during my 24 hour shift, so other than the safety walks (which had nothing out of the ordinary on them), the only imposition