You have just won the internet, but you weren't online to claim your prize.

winter break is over. And hell's pretty much frozen over at this point. In a literal sense.

It's 40 below!

But I'm back in the gym and classes are in full swing and it's pretty fucking awesome, honestly. I fucking rocked last semester. All Bs except for math, which was an A. It's a wonderful feeling to know that the two shitty classes you had to take you ended up passing, just barely. 80% is still adequate.

I no longer have the feeling of "oh god oh god oh god how the hell am I sitting in an upper division CS class?" which makes me think I'm becoming more confident with my intelligence. It really is a scary thing, sometimes. We actually had a guy from IBM walk in for a minute to say hi to the professor one day and I honestly felt like I was on another planet at that point.

But its a good thing. I would not trade the opportunity to be surrounded by really smart people for anything in the world, because when you surround yourself with people smarter than you, you will become more intelligent. College is the best place for that. Plenty of smart people (and smart asses, like me), running around.

I think it's pretty amazing how far I've come, both as a person and in my studies.