the air

Spring break 2007 is now officially over. I know I have not posted in a couple of days mainly because I was on Spring Break and took a much needed break from my computer and my studies. This spring break was definitely fun because I got a chance to hang out with a bunch of my friends and play some basketball. The worst part about Spring break is when it comes to an end. Today is Monday, and I definitely do not want to go back to class. As much as I value education and going to class, I always have more fun when I’m not in class.

This past week has been quite slow and I have been unable to accomplish some of the things I wanted to. I have an exam tonight which I am studying for feverishly, but the professor has failed to tell us what exactly he will be quizzing us on. In addition, we have homework due today in that class and I have literally spent over 15 hours working on it. By no means is it hard, it is simply difficult to “model” the assignment in Excel because I only learned how to “model” it by hand. However, the advantage of doing the homework in Excel is that I can obtain an exact answer rather than an approximation.

This break also gave me a chance to catch up on my reading. I’m always up for reading new books and I found this one book, “The Devil in the White City” by Erik Larson. The story revolves around Daniel Burnham, a renowned architect that designed the 1893 Chicago’s World Fair and H.H. Holmes, a notorious serial killer of that time. Interestingly, the book is a work of non-fiction, but written as a fictional text. In other words, everything the book describes is true, but tone of the book is reminiscent of a novel. If you have read the book, please let me know what your thoughts were. Currently, I just started Part II of the book and hope to have it complete by the end of the week.

Now that I am back at school and assuming my normal routine, I should be back to posting regularly. If you were on spring break, hope you had loads of fun. If you have yet to have spring break, please take the time and enjoy it. And if you don’t have spring break, I’m sorry but you are definitely missing out.

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