grades

          proj.   !logic  web    net    alg.    java   prob.  engl.   germ/french   russ

Irene      20     17.54   17.6   9.5    17.5    14.5   14     19.61   18.83         13
Anya       20     14.86   18.4   17     17.25   13.6   14.5   18.93   18.49         13.25
Ani M      19     10.31   13.8   11.5   19      18.3   18     19.52   19.75         9.5
Mane       20     17.86   18.4   14.5   18.75   17.4   18.5   19.88   20            11.5
Arman G.   20     17.62   17.6   12.5   19      15.2   16     19.76   19.6          11.75
Alex       20     13.65   20     11     11      10.6   10.5   17.31   13.66         5.75

guys please calc. the general mark by yourself and send it back to me. Here are the coefficients:

3.00 - project
2.00 - algorithm, web, java, net
1.75 - probability, !logic
1.50 - english
1.00 - german/french, russian

if you remind me i'll look up the grades for the last semester.. i must have it somewhere calculated wit coefficients.

the appilation is on 9th, at 11 am don't forget.

Anya remind me to bring the cd.

Mary don't forget the cds!!!

Summer time!

mhm, we'll be together next month! June will fly by very quickly due to exams.

yes exams :D german. me, Mary, Alex, and Anya have got 8 of 8 points. what can i say about the exam? "hahaha".

yesterday me, Anya and Mary wrote short essays on 9 topics. we were !studying hard during the whole year. Well, in fact Mary has done much more than me and Anya. I usually skipped one lesson during the week and went to work instead. Anya would skip either one of them too. not speaking about doing homeworks etc :D. During the very rare times when Alex attended he would usually get some sleep at the lesson as he would have worked all night. of course my german got worse and worse with every day as i started simply forgetting it. However, it started being difficult for me to talk and express my thoughts. Yesterday when Mary said a long sentence in German on spot, i was like "oh wow". Anyway. we were working "hard" and when half of the whole was ready decided to have a break. me and Mary played HARD BubbleTrouble (really hard, much harder than we did german :D). disgusting game i must say. when you feel like the brain is switching off you decide to play for a minute. but it's never a minute - you want to get to the next level every time and see its design. Mary was really good at this game and i was kind of new with it, so it was quite funny. Guess where from did she get this game? from our uni :D:D. i guess mr petrossyan had to entertain himself. :D.

after we were done with writing, we went home. in the morning we arrived at uni a bit later and found out that none of us had read anything from what we had written. Alex read the topics and it was about it. We went to exam, got our marks and the professor told Alex "yes, i see you have worked hard and i appreciate it a lot" hahaha. haha. ha. lol. it would be wonderful if all of the exams were to be taken orally. i think we have a special talent of talking, not necessarily on the subject if the topic :D.

the student has studied only one topic "the lice". he goes to the exam and pulls a paper with topic. His topic is "the sheep". he says "A sheep is an animal that has wool. Wool is perfect place to live for lice. A louse is an insect belonging to ... class of insects ...". And he tells everything he knows about lice. the professor asks to take on more topic. the second topic is "the fish." the student says "the fish doesn't have wool. So it can't have lice. A louse is an insect belonging to..."

our song should be:

we are the zzvanqs,
we are the zzvanqs,
no time for losers,
'cause we are the zzvanqs - of the world.

auf widersehen oder auf widerhoren :D

english exam

great just great.

topic: c# and java compared

yesterday instead of reading the report (or whatever) i was making the poster, as they weren't going to let us use the projectors for uncanny reasons. it would be ok if i at least knew the contents of the report. it consists of 12 pages. guess how much i have written on my own? 3-4 sentences in the conclusion. the rest was copied out from various sources, even the introduction. the topic was interesting to me but of course professors from the english chair would understand absolutely nothing. So i knew - whatever i'd have in those pages, they'd still listen, nod whikle i'd be speaking and look in a concentrated way at charts. i could say "java and c# are functional languages used for programming flash" or "java was created by microsoft after c# virtual machine could not satisfy the needs of the consumers". so i couldn't feel enthusiastic about the whole thing. Another reason for it was this poster thing. just a waste of time.

so today i read the introduction and the first part of the report in the taxi. then i arrived at the cafeteria, met Anya and we started making her poster. in between i read some things from here and there on language specification. then i reread these parts already during the exam while others were presenting their projects. when it was my turn, i just started talking about programming, these 2 languages in particular, about things which weren't in the project at all like history of these languages. Also, before going to uni, i was talking to Michael, and he was explaining some things on javadoc, spec language, etc. I used it all :D.

then i decided to speak about delegates. i looked at my professor and said "delegates can be regarded as function pointers *looking into her eyes, kind of nodding*" she nodded and kind of smiled as if it was familiar to her.

same things were happening with Anya and Alex. Anya was speaking about "creating web pages" and she had only finished with the introduction, when they stopped her and asked to go to the conclusion part. Alex had "file system". in the end the professor asked "what is the advantage of linux?" we all kind of imagined what would happen if Alex gave a full answer :D

good point: we had much fun :D

13 exams

     exam                      date       time      C       comment

1.   german - test             24.05      14.00     1.0     :p
2.   english - test            30.05      18.00     1.5     :)
3.   english - presentation    31.05      10.00     1.5     what is it about?
4.   german - oral exam        01.06      10.00     1.0     topics >:p
5.   physical education (!)    05.06      10.00     true    100% i'll "fail"
6.   COURSE PROJECT            06.00      10.00     3.0     ready
7.   algorithms                11.06      10.00     2.0     2 days are enough
8.   !logic                    14.00      10.00     1.75    ahahah (that's !logic)
9.   russian                   16.06      10.00     1.0     hahaha i'll "fail"
10.  net                       18.06      10.00     2.0     ???
11.  probability               21.06      10.00     1.75    !!!
12.  java                      25.06      14.00     2.0     omg... ?!?!
13.  php & mysql               29.06      14.00     2.0     :D 

in several words:
a bachelor is asked "how long will it take you to study chinese?" "well, 5 years, i think", he replies. professor is asked the same question and replies that he'll study it in 10 years. the doctor of science says it will be a lifelong study. the student replies with a question: "when is the exam?.."

//yes just several words :D that's what i learnt at !logic :D

some students study these things during the whole semester... some study the same things during days left between the exams :D. we know that we are mean and zzvanq students :D

*yawn* ok let's see what i have to do with this work.. mmm Michael will come online in ~0.5 h. as long as we communicate in english mostly (not taking into consideration the PP-PI language), i can say that i'm getting ready with the english test :D. mmmmm yes and as long as he's the best programmer in the world, i can also say that i'm getting ready with java, php, mysql exams :D.

*makes a PP face* no more distraction. yes. mhm.. mmmm... july... :D...... hmhmhm. cactus. cacti rather (at my desk). and one zzvanq flying cactus at home. cacti don't like rain. if it rains in a minute, i will be a cactus at the exam.

до свиданья

overview

web homeworks:
# applet - petrossyan's humour

java homeworks:
& traffic lights (if free_time) {fix a bit} (however this is done)
& n balls of different colors m colors (m is less than n) fly until the hit the border of the frame (then they change direction). selecting a checkbox stops all balls of that color. Then their 'flying' can be resumed.

New activities:
+ dance class

"to do"s:
organize files in the PC
make that smth-special-for-...
read: logic, net, probability theory materials

1984

Some things start getting systemized.

At first I just couldn't accept it with the heart that Winston gave up. Yes, he had gone through many horrible things, yes they had broken his will, yes it all deeply affected his mentality. But broken things could get fixed I believed (and still do - with small correction - not *always*). Maybe not 100% - there would be left scars (mostly psychological) and other reminders; but in general everything would 'accrete'. Like Julia said "they can't get *into* you"; they wouldn't be able to change the kernel. But it wasn't just breaking the will like breaking a stick. It was not breaking at all. They turned him inside out, scraped out everything, every thought, every feeling, and then stuffed him with thoughts and feelings they needed him to have. It was not Winston any more - it was stuffed Winston literally and figuratively. A scarecrow - stuffed with loyalty to the party, doublethinking, hatred against party's foes, love towards the big brother.

Russian

How very interesting and exciting. Russian is perhaps the language I speak the best because the majority of books I've read was in Russian, the majority of movies I've seen was in Russian, at home I mostly speak Russian.It became part of me, a habbit and I stopped noticing it or paying attention just like to the air. Now that Michael is studying Russian I kind of rediscover the Russian language, art and literature.

Now after finishing "1984" I was thinking what to read. "1984" is a too strong book to start something right after it - too strong impressions; the book shook me and it will take some time till everything I've read is analyzed, settled down and put in order. Therefore I needed something absolutely different, on a different subject. Suddenly I remembered about the whole world of Russian literature which I well not ignored but haven't investigated thoroughly. It won't be a lie to say i don't know it at all - just have general ideas. It's exactly what I need now. It's absolutely different from European authors because the mentality of the writer is absolutely different. I could have taken smth from Japanese, Latin-American or some other literature but it would not have that hint of familiarity, comfort in it. So, I've made my choice - "the Garnet bracelet" by Alexander Couprin.

How could I have not noticed the whole world of Russian literature? Perhaps the same way Michael didn't notice the park 1000 feet away from his apartment :).