So, today was my first day of classes (as I missed classes on Monday). I had the epiphany that undergraduate courses are incredibly lame. Stuck in a room with about 20-30 people: ~10% aren't particularly bright bulbs and slow the class down and 20% feel the need to make inane comments that contribute nothing and slow the class down. It was the second day of class and neither class discussed anything beyond overview type work. I miss my grad courses of last semester where the first day we dove into the topics. It also doesn't help that for both classes this semester (Digital Signals Processing and Computer Security) I've done extensive work on my own and am well ahead of 95% of the students there. Heck I was writing encryption programs in 9th grade, so the first lab for Security (Implement the AES [Advanced Encryption Standard] cipher) is going to be a breeze.

Oh well, it will be a light semester, and I'm not TA-ing, so I should have lots of time to work on my thesis.

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