I'm not in much of a mood to write right now. Last night and earlier today, I had the hankering to write about love and marriage, especially after Brother Oca's guest, an attorney and future teacher in the future DLSU College of Law, came in and lectured about marriage and the law. But now I don't feel like it. Bummer. There should be some sort of way to record your thoughts for future reference. Damn.
All I am now is worried. The project that we have to pass tomorrow is still not done and I'm pretty helpless here. I can't work on it since all of the hardware is with another of my groupmates. I wrote the code today and it's now with my groupmate. All I can do is wait for the results. That's pretty bad programming, really. You rarely ever get it on the very first try. Debugging is a very big part of the process and I can't very well undertake it because the testing involves the hardware. Damn.
And this is just a project for one of our subjects this term. Thesis is a whole other motherfucking monster.
I'll share just one thing I learned from the lecture on the legal aspects of marriage. There are only two countries in the world in which divorce is illegal: the Philippines and Malta. What the fuck is Malta, you ask? Exactly. Ex-fucking-xactly.
We have a project due on Wednesday and we still don't know how to fucking do it. We have all the equipment but finishing the project requires that we learn how to work with a UART. And here I go again with my hatred for self-learning. Sure, self-learning is cool when it's something fun you're learning like the solution to a Rubik's cube but when it's something you just don't give a shit about, it's the hardest thing ever. Like I've said before, it's pretty fucking stupid that we have to pay so much goddamn money to the school when we do so much of the learning on our own. At the same time, we're suffering and we're getting robbed! That's just fucking wrong. I just cannot will myself to study this shit. It's so fucking easy to get distracted.
I installed MPLAB, which we'll be using for our project, I think, and the installation process was frustratingly long ang fucking convoluted. I had to redo the damn thing many times because the shit was not responding and I could not be bothered to wait for it. When I finally did decide to wait, I cracked open my copy of Neil Gaiman's American Gods. I'm finally past the part that I stopped at back when I was reading a digital copy of the book a long time ago and I'm not even half way through. Awesome.
Oh, and get the new Say Anything album. It's cool. You may be of the opinion that all the emo or pop-punk-esque bands sound the same, vocally. Well, listen to Say Anything. Max Bemis has one of the most unique voices ever.
Oh, and Kevin Martin was injured?! Why the fuck did I put him on my team for today then?! This is what happens when all you pay attention to are stats.
I and three of my Computer Engineering friends (Ervin, David, and Elijah) went to this career forum thingy by Procter & Gamble today. We'd been invited previously, presumable because we have the highest CGPAs of all the CpE students in DLSU. The event started with an office tour, which was actually the best part of the whole shebang. An engineering graduate from DLSU was our guide. Let met take you through the rooms that I remember: - a room with a table that could be converted from regular old table to air hockey table by the simple addition and omission of a cover. - the Wii room, which well, has a frickin' Nintendo Wii in it. - the iPod room. It's a room for two with these weird-ass half-egg-shaped chairs, a light that looks like an iPod scroll wheel, an iPod hub, speakers embedded on the ceiling, and a computer installed specifically for employees to grab music from for their iPods. Cool beans. - the massage room where our guide, Rics, unwittingly walked in on his boss luxuriating. - the random club rooms: photography, cars (no actual cars. Just a PS3 and a bunch of steering wheels with pedals), dance, culinary (no actual cooking), books, game shit (complete with Rock Band, Guitar Hero, and all of the necessary instrumental peripherals), fitness/exercise (complete with a bunch of computers. Wait... what?), football (a tiny room where people apparently practiced futsal plays), tennis (no net, no rackets, just four squishy tennis-ball-shaped chairs), and a rejuvenation room (comfy chairs, foot massagers, piss-inducing waterfall thingy). - pantries with big screen TVs, foosball tables, arcade-style basketball shootout thingies, and different themes for each (oriental, gay neon shit, no chair the same).
And the whole 24th floor was elevated a step to allow for mini golf holes all around the office. What the fuck? It was awesome.
What followed the tour were a couple of presentations from a couple of P&G employees who happen to be DLSU graduates. From them we learned how shit goes on at P&G. We already inferred from the office tour that it's a company with new-age, hippy-ish values. They treat everyone equal there. In fact every single employee is a fucking stockholder in the company. The policy goes that as long as you meet your deadlines, you're free to spend your time however the hell you want. Go ahead and play with your Wii all day long (that sounds wrong). Just make sure that the work gets done on time. Pretty cool, if you ask me. I'm not sure if this kind of thing will prove helpful or harmful for a guy like me but it sure as hell sounds fun.
After that, we were fed. It goes to show how fucking rich this company is when they feed a bunch of kids for fucking free. It was good food too. Spaghetti, carbonara, and some kind of cheesy potatoes.
Afterward, we took the global reasoning test. It's a prerequisite for application in their company. The test was comprised of forty items. The first fifteen were dead simple math problems. The last fifteen were logic choose-the-next-item-in-the-pattern items. A few were mind-bending but otherwise, also easy. The middle ten questions were word problem type thingies and these ones sucked. The problems were long and uninteresting and it seemed that multiple choices could be right. Anyway, all four of us passed and were eligible to continue with the application process. Before we left, we were all given 2GB USB flash drives, absolutely free. Damn them, they're rich.
Fast forward to last night (just a couple of hours ago for me) and we're doing the online application and we're all confused because we aren't sure if we are applying for on-the-job training or an actual job. It's still not finished, actually. I started on this stupid test that consisted of many questions that can only be answered by a person who has a job. Bugger me, I don't have a job!
