General Grammar Irks and Two Specific Things

I always cry a little inside, and express my distaste a little more overtly in some cases, whenever I visit Facebook and internet forums that have comments with absolutely no vestige of grammar or even spelling. I always wonder if the poster actually wants to be misconstrued when he leaves his post with no punctuation.

Dean's List

I recently made the Dean's List at my college for the third time in a row. I have never made a big deal out of it; you only need a GPA of 3.5 for the semester to get on it, and I've had a perfect 4.0 GPA for all the semesters so far.

Project Unison

Unison is a programming project I am pursuing over the summer to automatically control a character in a popular online game. I wish to use this project to put something of size and meaning on my resume in the AI sub-field of computers.

Counting the Digits in a Sequential Integer Series

Last year, I developed a way to count the number of digits in a sequential integer series without having to count the digits in each number. I am still not entirely sure why I pursued this, I think I was working on some programming project that got me thinking about how long a file would be if I wrote sequential numbers to it. Anyway, it was an interesting project; I learned a lot about the summation operation, among other things. Less wonderful was letting this project lay fallow: writing how this equation works has been challenging, to say the least. But, you are probably not really interested in the how, but more of the what I am talking about.

Wikipedia Trails

I love Wikipedia. I know it is not an academically accepted source of information and can be changed by anybody with a computer and Internet connection. In fact, Wikipedia itself says it is not a creditable source. However, it presents information in such a uniform and (usually) easy to read fashion that I often catch myself reading for an hour or more.

Goals for Summer 2011

This summer, I have a set of goals to achieve. Mostly in order they are:

1. Code project Unison to the beta stage (I'll post later on what the details of this project are.)
2. Obtain the first level of ATA instructor training certification (the red collar).
3. Learn Linear Algebra and Statistics—I was given books on these subjects and I should read them.
4. Find a programming internship.

The first two are really my two main goals. With Unison, I'm not entirely certain if I want to find a programming internship, but I put it on here anyway since I would love to make some money from all this coding knowledge I have.

For #2, I have two thoughts:

1. Taking this path has the potential to get employed doing something I enjoy very much.
2. If you can teach something, you will know it infinitely deeper than if you just studied it. I'll have to post something on this at a later point.

Testing Method

One of the tools I use to get good grades is the way I take tests. This method really only applies to multiple choice exams and it involves several passes of the test along with quite a bit of logic. I will lay out how I take tests, step-by-step, after the break.