This is so f*cking hard

I spent three hours today transcribing class notes on “the ethnography of technology” for a paper next week, and another couple of hours assembling material for part of a presentation on instrument-mediated design. Right now it's midnight on a Saturday and I am researching Hidden Markov Models on the internet because one of two papers that I have to understand by Monday for my seminar in Ubiquitous Computing uses them to determine what a user is doing by the things that he touches with an RFID enabled glove.

Tomorrow I need to email some professors to find out if I can sit in on Discrete Mathematics for Computation with the computer science freshmen, even through this quarter only has two months left, so that I can build up the computational knowledge for Fundamentals of Data Structures and Algorithms.

Finally, next week I start my part time internship at Filenet where I will be working within the development team on an upgrade to their enterprise-level data management software.

I am looking forward to the internship. That shit is going to feel like a vacation.