Something written in the sand...

No really, I'm Brian. It even says so in the sand at Au Train. I think the picture says it all in this case.

The Rathblogs

We finally made a new site to combine all of our blogs called "The Rathblogs." You can check that out at http://rathblogs.blogspot.com/ anyway, you'll see that on the right there are is a blog list but it's also its own blog. Just ask and I'll add you to the admins so you can edit it too!

FAIRBANKS

hey everyone! We had a long day of flights yesterday but now we're here in Fairbanks! I left at 6:30 yesterday morning Eastern Time and then landed in fairbanks around 1am Alaska time so for me 24 hours of traveling! I'll blog again later hopefully not as long as last time

snow day!!

well, it's been way too long since I've posted a blog but with the snow day, I don't have an excuse!

So this morning I woke up for class at 8:45 and slowly started to get ready for my favorite class to have at 9 in the morning: the incredibly exciting intro to computer science II. Well I got back from the bathroom and my roommate who had already been up for a bit longer than I had told me we didn't have school. of course I thought he was kidding but then I saw that he got an email saying classes were cancelled and so did I! So I went back to sleep. And now I am up again and I don't have anything to do today! No classes, not even broomball! I kind of even feel like I am in my own little world here. our window is only now just starting to clear up since it was completely covered in snow this morning.
But there's so much more to talk about here. I have new classes this semester as you can imagine, and I even have bowling for the second half of this semester. Classes are going well, though they seem a bit harder than last semester. here's a lineup:

• Intro to computer science II
• engineering Modeling and Design
• Advanced Spanish for special purposes
• Linear Algebra
• Beginning Bowling
• Physics I - Mechanics
• World Cultures Activities

intro to computer science has been interesting, the first homework assignment, I ended up pulling an all-nighter for with a few friends. the homework was to write a program to find problems with the professors code. We found 2, there were 5 problems with the code. oops! but luckily no one did that well with that homework and he says that usually that's the one that people screw up on. Other than that there haven't been any major problems though engineering is getting on my nerves and really questioning whether or not I want to be an engineer, we'll see I guess.
oh! My desktop is reorganized too! here's a picture of what it looks like right now:


I actually just cleaned it last night. you may see all of the sticky notes on my desk, some of them are about study abroad, which I am thinking of doing but really only in the planning stages. I still need to talk to the study abroad guy to see what I actually need to do to sign up. I know that there are a lot of forms I have to fill out and then I actually have to choose where I want to go. right now my top choice is spain but maybe Santiago, Chile. Really it all depends on what I can get into and when I want to go. I already emailed my academic advisor about it all and she said to expect to be set back a semester though classes I take abroad would classify as electives so that extra semester wouldn't be very hard.

Anyway, this post has gotten pretty long, I'll try to post again soon. I need to work on some things that are due tomorrow.

last days of the semester

well, I should be asleep but instead I felt like I should blog. Things are starting to wrap up here in the fall 2007 semester here at Michigan Tech. I'm already done with all of my labs (math, physics, and computer science) and perspectives. I finished my last homework computer program just a few nights ago, which was just a game of Connect4. Now after this week, four exams and I'm done! First one's engineering at 8am on monday, then Math at 5:30 on tuesday, then spanish at 8am on thursday, and finally intro to computer science at 3 on thursday. well, quick blog for me today, I should get some sleep.

I stumbled on this today on the web:

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winter in houghton!

Well, winter certainly has arrived here in Houghton. We got back from thanksgiving break on sunday and were surprised that there wasn't any snow. We pretty much jinxed ourselves, the next day it started snowing and it hasn't stopped since, that's Houghton I guess. Anyway, the picture is of my window, It has frost on the inside part of it! And you can see, the snow has piled up against my screen a few inches. It's definitely cold and windy... and I kinda forgot to bring heavier coats after thanksgiving, but what are you gonna do? Luckily none of my classes are too far away, and I can make my way through buildings if I really need to, but it hasn't really gotten to that point yet. I've been writing papers all week it seems, I've been working on a research paper for perspectives and on monday I wrote my last critical response (respuesta crítica) for spanish. Not much else going on here, I've pretty much mindlessly been making my way through the weeks and looking forward to Christmas break.

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No hair and new cellphone!

I just felt like tis was the best way to show both my new phone and my shaven head. you should be able to click on it to get a bigger picture. I'll try to get another picture of my cellphone from the side because it's REALLY thin. Not much else new, as of right now I'm not failing any of my classes (they don't tell me much more than that). I'd better try to get to bed early tonight, class at 8 tomorrow

My side of the room

So you were all talking about how i took a picture of mike's side so i took a picture of mine. It's not that bad and i didn't clean it before i took the picture

New room layout!

We stacked the dressers to make more space in the room, I should also note that I took and sent this to my blog with my new phone which I'll try to point out later.

almost done with the first week of classes

Well, I'm in the Library right now where I should be studying. I just had Spanish, which seems to be turning out a lot better than I thought it would. Surprisingly enough, "Spanish culture and literature" doesn't sound too exciting especially with the size of the book I have for it (see above). So I need to read a few things for engineering, some spanish poetry by Roberto Fernández Retamar, and a pdf for world religions. My next class is intro to computer science at 3. I just had my first lab for that class, they had us run a few commands on the linux computers and then copy down a program he wrote for us and run it. Easy. I guess I should probably go over all of my classes and my first impressions of them since some of you may not have gotten on my email list for my class schedule.

Calculus II monday, wednesday, friday, at 8am. it doesn't seem to be too bad, it's just too early. there's a lso a lab but that doesn't start until next week
Perspectives on Inquiry: World Religions monday, wednesday, friday at 9am. This one could be bad, I have two books for this class and I've already written a paper for it. The teacher doesn't seem too bad though, I guess I might just like his name: Bucky Beach.
Engineering 1101 monday, wednesday, friday at 11am. I'm not sure about this, it seems easy but I feel like it could turn ugly
Spanish tuesday, thursday at 9:30am. I was pretty intimidated on the first day and when I got my book but now I feel like I'm getting it.
intro to computer science tuesday, thursday at 3pm. Being the nerd I am, I'm actually pretty excited about this class. It's pretty easy, they assume that you have had no past programming experience so everything is very simple. the lab is no different.
Physics 1100 tuesday, thursday at 12pm. This class doesn't start until next week.

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at tech now!

Well, I'm here! I'm up at Michigan tech and all this week I have been having orientation. I got up here on friday and the parents got here saturday. Now, I have a bit of a break before my "Advising Meetings" and since I haven't blogged in a while it just seems right to write something. Classes start next tuesday! We couldn't manage to find the crapcam before I left so it looks like if I want to post any pictures I'll have to do it with my computer's webcam. Our room is great now, there's so much more space though I'm kinda thinking of lowering my bed a bit. We'll see. I might just let it be for a while and see if I get used to it. so all is well, here and it's been fun around here. Now I should probably get going to those meetings. I'll blog sooner or later, probably when I find some free time.

Mom and Dad, do you know where my soap dish went? did I forget to take it out of the bag?

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New Shoes!

New shoes! Today I went to Rivertown Crossings Mall, the big one in grandville, in Claire's new car (see the update on yesterday's blog post)! So I still had momentum from yesterday's shoe shopping and I managed to find the keens I was looking for along with the other shoes that I was eyeing yesterday. All in all, a great outing but now I'm a bit shopped out.

Shopping!!!

Well, no picture today. I didn't really have a good one to put up. Anyway, Claire and I went out to the malls (Centerpointe and Woodland). We looked at shoes and jeans (that actually fit me) in a bunch of stores. I was looking for some Keen sandals but everywhere I looked only seemed to have brown, grey, and black. So the Keen shopping didn't bring me any results but I did find some other shoes that I liked! As for the jeans I still didn't find anything, apparently there isn't a guy in the world with legs shorter than thirty...

UPDATE: I guess I just figured it would be necessary to mention that claire got a new car! That's how we got to the mall! So I'm going to put a picture of her new car onto this blog. It's a 2006 Kia Spectra. Click the picture to see more!

the cavi window...

well, just hours after we fixed the power steering, this happened. Not
really sure how, we just went to best buy and tried to roll up the
window when it just didn't seem to go up quite right...

ipod car dock!

So, as a request from dad, I decided to post a blog about the ipod dock I made for the car. it really does work, and it hides away when you don't need it! Oh! and one more thing, this is the blog that I'll be trying to post to from now on.

I'm gonna try to start using this blog again!

well, it's been well over a year since I last posted to this blog so I guess I ought to do something to it. First off, as you may have noticed, I renamed it to Blogscuit (clever, eh?). I made a few changes to the actual page, and I'm hoping that soon I'lll be able to put a link pointing to some photo albums. We'll see how it all goes, I'll be posting again soon. As for now I'll be looking for a good way to blog.

Back home

Hooters!...?
Originally uploaded by matrat.

well, after a very stressful couple of days and a stay in Paris Hilton (hehe), I'm finally home! Tomorrow I get a nice relaxing day to do whatever I want. I might put up more posts but for now you can just go through some of my Flickr pictures

http://www.flickr.com/photos/seabiscuit3/

Florence

well, I'm sitting here in Florence right now just hanging out in an internet cafe. we spent one day in Luzern (which was my birthday!). I really liked luzern and then we got to florence yesterday. we got here at dinner time then we spent the rest of the night (until 10:30) exploring Florence and it was really neat. Florence in the daytime is really hot so it's good to get out. I'll blog later, I only have 20 minutes.

Birthday eve

Alright, just sitting here in an internet cafe in paris. I only have like 5 minutes until I have to start paying for 30 minutes so I'm gonna make this quick. We just got back from the Paris Catacombs, we went on the eiffel tower yesterday and I acquired the nickname croissant. we're going on a night train tonight to luzern and lastly, my birthday tomorrow!

BONJOUR!!

Alright, now I'm mad, I ran out of time on this machine and it closed my window and deleted what I wrote earlier! Anyway, Bonjour! I'm in Paris, we just got here today. We haven't explored Paris yet but we just got here and ate dinner at around six. We also went to Canterbury today. It's fun to see how crazy everyone is about soceer here, but more stories later. I don't want this to delete this message and so I'm gonna finish this.

Mom, Dad: I'm having a great time (just so you know)