One thing about Stanford that really impresses me is its efficiency (or perhaps inhumanely tight academic schedule). Final exams can be graded and final grades decided within a week. Typical mid-terms only have a turnover of one weekend. Perhaps Cornell was just inefficient?
Grades for this quarter ended up better than expected. In some sense I am happy that all the work paid off. Interestingly, the first A+ I got in an EE class comes from my CS architecture class. Maybe this is a sign that I should take the next class in the series. Maybe it is a sign that I am more suited for architecture than circuits.
Anyway, I am not as happy as I thought I will be, nor as happy as I might have been in the past. Maybe expectations are changing eh? I remember TT telling me that after winter break, he realized that grades aren't that important. I cannot remember what he said was important though.
Been trying to plan my parents' trip this June. We should be visiting Vancouver and the Rocky Mountains. I was looking at some online tour package which looked quite promising. But I just noticed that it departs on Friday. Darn.. we were going to arrive on Mon or Tue. Maybe we will end up driving ourselves.
Let's see what I have been doing the past few days. Vacuumed the house. Placed a fix-it request to fix the living room lights. Played with the new MacBook Pro and sent it in for repairs today (the trackpad seems a tad strange so I decided to get it replaced). Cooked kong ba for last night's potluck dinner. Watched American Idol last night for the first time; it was pretty entertaining. Filled up the tax forms (should be getting a few hundred dollars back.. yeah!). Ah finally hopped onto the Facebook bandwagon.
Things left to do: settle next quarter's classes, buy textbooks, write a few postcards/cards, check up on IEEE membership, order cap+gown for graduation, apply for graduation, and confirm my air ticket back to Sg.
