That was certainly fast, I applied at 3:50p (and confirmed the link in the email) and at 4:25p I just received the approval email. I need to get a nap before work at 10pm tonight though, I’ve been up since 7am Thursday morning! 4 hours won’t be much but it’ll be enough for a quick refresher.
I decided to apply for Google Adsense to check it out. I’ll know in 1-2 days if I am approved.
Well this semester flew by. I took exam 2 this past Tuesday in Electrical Power Supplies. It was another doozy with this teacher. I set my expectations really really low so I would get better then what I expeceted. I got the exam back today and got an 85% (with 26 points taken off). I must say this teacher has killer exams but is extremely fair with curving. I was going to be content with a 70-75% (with the unknown curve). Out of the 6 students there was 1 A, 2B’s, and 2C’s and one student is taking the exam right now since they weren’t here Tuesday.
The final exam is Tuesday December 13th at 7:45am. It’s 50 question multiple choice. The exams have been free form answer. I asked the teacher just where I’m sitting now. Going into the final exam I am guaranteed a B in this class. If I get the bare minimum to pass (the exam), a 60% (graded, with curve), I’ll end up with a 80.7% B. If I ace the exam I’ll end up with a 88.7% B. If I manage to pull this off the instructor said if he feels I know the material he’ll bump it to an A. Otherwise if I get the average test of 80% then I’ll end up with a 84.7% B. So in the end it looks like a B is a lock in this class which is plenty fine with me. It will be my only B since coming back to school after the layoff but a B is still fine with me.
Now I just have to make my allowed sheet for the exam and wait until 7:45 am this Tuesday. At least I can rest easy knowing a B will be mine. I know I won’t ace it and get a perfect so a A bump isn’t going to happen.
I also asked him about the independant study (where I got my Amateur Radio License) and was told that’s an A. That will put my semseter at a 3.50GPA. I haven’t bothered to calculate the full GPA.
Dreamhost really is, um, a dream. Great service and absolutely no complaints. Importing my old databse was a breeze. Plenty of other options. I really like the fact that with the lowest plan my bandwidth increases by 1GB a week and my storage increases 40MB a week. I’m no where near using the initial 4.8GB I received and as of today I’m up to 5160MB of storage and 129GB of bandwidth. I can sincerely recommend them.
Well my computer was dying the last few days. Out of nowhere it would just shutdown (especially if compiling a new package and the cpu was running 99% load) but the power light was still on. I had to hold the power button in a few seconds for it to ‘really’ shut off. Then after turning it back on the HDD’s sounded funny spinning up and would take a few hard power off and ons to get back up. Then only to shutdown again. I replaced the power supply yesterday as well as added some new case fans and all is well again. I figured the PSU might be the problem because of the sound the HDDs made spinning up, sounded weak and like it wasn’t getting proper power.
At least it was something simple and not a dying CPU.
