Gray Sunday Morning (Student)

It is a very, very gray day here in Chicago. Yesterday was probably worse, but today is still pretty bad. Looking out my window, all I see is a tree without leaves, some gray sky, and a beige-ish building across the street. It looks incredibly bleak out in the world right now, and as a result I'm in my room working.

Monday is my second calculus midterm, so there is some studying going on for that. Tuesday I have a humanities paper due, so there will be some work put into that. It's almost Thanksgiving, so I have another release of my ZBLL algorithms due to the speedcubing community, so I will also be working on that. My old blog was dedicated to this, but it's sort of fallen apart as I haven't had time to update and really just stopped cubing for a long period. For those who are interested, you can find the blog HERE. Then I have a 6 page paper due for American History the week after Thanksgiving, so I have to start thinking about that. It's going to be a fantastically productive Sunday.

I recently got my 2x2x2 LanLan cube, which is kind of a problem. It is just too smooth. As a result I spend way too much time playing with it. It has yet to lose me any sleep, but that fact that it's there is causing a few problems. To the right you can see a picture of what it looks like. From here it just looks like a 2x2x2 Rubik's cube, but the internal mechanism makes it much better than any Rubik's brand cube. Still, you have to give credit where it's due, and Erno Rubik's design is what made this possible, so I thank him for that. White cubes are, in my opinion, superior to black ones, for reasons that I'll get into later.

As far as sleep is concerned, I've lightened up on my schedule. Thursday I felt rather awful with a  migraine and slight fever, so I decided to not set my alarm at all and just let myself sleep. I did that Friday and yesterday, as well, because I'm still feeling under the weather a little. Getting sick would be a very bad thing and I can't let that happen. In high school I got sick a lot, but I blame having to stay through an entire day for that. The big advantage of college is that you don't have to worry about quite so much every day, so overall you are less stressed. You aren't forced to be in the same building for 7 hours a day taking 6 or 7 classes you don't like. Instead, you max out at 4 classes you don't like.