KBS Mindset

Now at 1.22AM, I’m taking a break from finishing my homework, which is due at 12PM. I’ve done 60% of the total questions so far.
I’m eating spaghetti that my sister made for me and drinking Chrysanthemum Tea. LOL

Anyway, I don’t think I can go to Hollywood Studio on the 25th. Seth thom, I’m sorry bro.

Because, the following week 27th-31st Oct, I have three midterm examinations coming up; each one is on 27th, 28th, and 31st. They will be very tough, so to speak.

27th, Engineering Ethics (open-midterm): Choose 6 outta 11 essay questions to answer. Ideal length per essay is 1-1.5 pages, and I have an average of 17 minutes per essay. In all effort, I need a lot of time, to prepare for the midterm, outlining lecture notes, read textbook, and prepare references in various topics in case needed during midterm.

28th, Electrical Engineering Class: Class hasn’t gone over the midterm review yet, so I don’t know what to expect. But I heard last spring’s midterms averaged at 30-40%. Likewise, the my class’ first homework grades averaged at 50%.

31st, Statistics class: Piece of cake.

Instead, I might go to Hollywood on the 31st evening with Visal, my sister, Ramy, and Ratana.

Visal is coming tomorrow. )
Whatever. I’ll call that a post.

School is starting to invade majority of my free time now. Last few days, I forgot to finish a Statistics class homework because I was not informed about the due date. On the due date, 1 hour before TA session, I checked the syllabus and it was due on the TA session. I panicked, and I didn’t bring textbook to school, you know, it’s heavy and it’s not used in lecture or TA session. Firstly, I decided to go to bookstore and photograph the homework problems. But million thanks to the iPhone camera, it sucks.

iPhone camera supports no zoom, flash light, brightness/contrast, auto focus and every other feature that are supported in latest SE or Nokia phone. This is suck.

Oh well, I purchased another textbook, $120.70 for that hideous paperback textbook. So well, I could manage to finish the homework problems on time. As I said, Intro to Stats class is easy.

I returned the book today and got my money back.

Anyway, last night as I was about to sleep, I checked the graduate program/master degree program at UCLA. I want to pursue the MBA/MSCS – a joint program of Master of Business Administration and Master of Science, Computer Science. It’s a 3-year program. Once graduated, the graduate student will have both the MBA and MS CS certifications separately. I know it’s really cool. And, I checked the graduate courses and guess what almost half of the Computer Science courses are what I am intended to take for my undergraduate study, Operating System Principles, Intro to Database System, Programming Languages, CS System fundamentals, Computer Network Fundamental, to name a few. So less a quarter for me IF I will be accepted into BOTH master programs. Yes BOTH. BOTH admissions from the Anderson School of Management, and the Henry Sameuli Engineering School are required.

The average GMAT score of accepted students for the class of 2010 is 711 with a range from 660-760. The mean GPA is 3.5 with range from 3.2-3.8. And, I need to take the GRE (Graduate Record Examinations) test, for graduate engineering school, also.

Whatever, I’m so hopeless. LOL. So, I did a search for another school with this joint program. Eventually, I ended up in a college review site. Here is a query search of UCLA “perceptual” rating.

Perceptual Rankings for UCLA

Best Academic School #229 (7202 votes)
Cutest Girls #12 (292 votes)
Computer Engineering #19 (175 votes)
Best Public School #2 (337 votes)
Business #78 (370 votes)
Medical School #12 (9 votes)
Most Like A Diploma Mill #37 (392 votes)
Dumbest Faculty #46 (91 votes)
International Business #1 (103 votes)
Most Respected #7 (193 votes)
Top Ten California Schools #4 (3 votes)

Shall end here, I’ll seek out for cute girls tomorrow. )