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Week 14, Reading Diary: The last one!

For the very last reading I read Part B of the Legends of India by Washburn Hopkins. I was actually a little excited about this reading. Mainly because I jumped ahead and did the project feedback last night and one of the stories were about Arjuna and Ulupi. This section talks about Ulupi so yay for connections! It is a little odd how Arjuna, already married just falls in love at first sight. After being in a very serious relationship, I couldn’t imagine loving more than one person. I do really like the rhyming but it is a little hard to understand what is going on.  Like for the Ulupi part, I wasn’t sure if Ulupi was coming unseen or not. Really fun read for the last one!

Arjuna and Ulupi

Week 14: Reading Diary, Something Something Fiery

For the Tuesday Reading of Week 14, I read part A of Legendsof India by Washburn Hopkins. This book is written in verse focusing on Arjuna in the Mahabharata. I chose anther version of the Mahabharata again to get the full story. For me it is a little hard to grasp the whole story in the first sitting, even in TV shows and movies. One of my favorite things about this reading would have to be the rhyming of the verse. It was actually fun to read out loud. Some of the words are different, like it calls the Pandavas the Pandus. Also the character list was a little funny. I really enjoyed this read. I did like the way it talked about Draupadi’s swaraymara and Arjuna having a thing for her in the beginning. Honestly that would really suck, sharing a wife with your brother. I mean think about it!!

Legends of India

Week 14, Famous Last Words: Failure, Fun, Firewater

Alas! Just when my stress levels are at an all-time high, more stress comes alone. I have this lovely and delightful class called, Embedded Real Time Systems. If you don’t know what that it is, it’s okay…neither do I. In this class we have a weekly project where we have to program something on our hovercraft. Now, the group I am in has one…complicated member. He is a good guy but has his quirks. This week he didn’t meet with us, and he was in charge of the code that was due yesterday which is still not turned in. Yay.

Thankfully, the professor is super awesome and is working with us and I believe if we get it in as soon as possible I don’t think we will get a huge penalty. I wouldn’t care that much, but I have a C in that class and I hope to God I don’t fail another class. I sort of pay for my own schooling and who has two thumbs and can’t afford thousand dollars of debit? This girl (points at self).

Honestly though. All this…failure is really getting to me. I mean it has before, it comes with an engineering degree unless you are super smart. But think about it. I spend most of my time doing homework and studying. I keep telling my friends I can’t hang out with them until they eventually stop asking. Then I not only get the lowest test scores, don’t understand my homework so it feels like I fail in my classes and in my personal life. Not to mention I never sleep enough. So that triangle where you have to pick only two options is crap.

College Life

Now that my reader and I are depressed, let’s lighten the mood. So this weekend I discovered something AMAZING. My boyfriend, Matt, has had a Nintendo 64 this whole time!!! Apparently a cord was broken so he didn’t play it but the day after I talked to him about it, he brought home a new cord, Mario Kart, and a 6 pack of beer. Best night I have had in a while.