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Back to School

guess what: i've gone back to school

my Very Intelligent Wife suggested i look into community college instead of merely moping around the house Not Getting A Job

so i did, and now i'm enrolled at LaGuardia Community College (go Red Hawks!)

i'm majoring in electrical engineering. it's normally a 2-year degree, but your boy is a delicate Humanities Simpleton and so needs to take remedial trig and pre-calc so who even knows

published september 19, 2025

week 2

math continues to be a bit of a struggle. i am kind of possibly trying to use this as an opportunity to Revisit My Approach To School, since i don't necessarily actually need this. i certainly don't need a 100 in remedial remedial math, lbr. also, ya boy is dolphinately gonna get covid, there is so much sneezing and coughing.

seminar continues to be low-key. tuesday's lab was an introduction to a pretty unpleasant wysiwyg static site editor called ePortfolio; thursday's class was basically just the professor assigning us to groups for our projects and explaining the existence of the app builder website and it was over in about 40 minutes. sure.

english class is fine. our first project will be a report on a historic engineering disaster. i chose the ford pinto, which in my mind and my wife's was just a famous lemon but actually killed a bunch of people. our first homework was to find and summarize an article about our disaster and cite and analyze a quote from it, and tbh i struggled to meet the length minimum. i think this and math might be a lot of likely alimentary tedium.

published september 12, 2025

week 1

i just finished my first week of classes:

my math class is hard, so far. i think ~~the~~ a problem is that the first two weeks are necessarily super-remedial, in that there is an expected baseline of competence you're expected to get to and i don't know what i don't know. once the cadence normalizes and the homework is on the stuff covered in class it should be better (???)

my seminar class is a bit of a mess: it's on zoom and the professor might have covid? we have to make a fake android app for engineers to learn about how to be engineers. figma has been mentioned; i'll be fine.

my english class is Technical Writing and i'm kind of stoked? the first reading assignment included a what is technical communication? piece that starts with "know your audience and address them appropriately" so you know i'm already down. also i have like so many feelings about Documentation that i would love a forum for.

so we'll see! cautiously optimistic so far! i might fail math but we'll cross that bridge when we get there!