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Posted on 2010.06.30 at 17:20
Current Location: lawndale, ca
Music: jello biafra & nomeansno - the myth is real - let's eat
so apparently i'm moving back to norcal.

spending a weekend there with scott and his lovely girlfriend anne, and rediscovering a bunch of people i hadn't seen in half a decade at the "space pirates" party in oakland, made me miss it more than ever, and the gf is losing her current digs in modesto due to landlord dickishness.

i have not managed to fall in love with los angeles, and there's not really anything keeping me here other than the one friend who restored my car while i was overseas.

so i'm finishing this quarter in school, and will be securing a studio apartment for us in august.

i've already applied to de anza for fall quarter. they don't have a pre-engineering program, so i'm changing my major to technical writing. i've only done low-level math and general ed at my current school, so i will likely not lose anything in the switch.

so yeah, that's that. i get a little more sick of facebook every day, so i'm gonna make an attempt to post more on lj again.
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LorMagins
lormagins at 2010-07-01 00:48 (UTC) (Link)
Holy crap! Awesome!!

Hey BTW CCSF has a mechanical engineering program? http://www.ccsf.edu/Departments/Engineering_and_Technology/program.html
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Generation Y's Howard Beale
dk at 2010-07-02 00:10 (UTC) (Link)
yeah, i've been thinking a lot about my choice in major-

working in IT for 8 years absolutely killed computers as a hobby for me; i hate doing my own network admin now (even when it's something cool like setting up a SAN so i can download torrents and play them from my PS3 without swapping around a thumb drive).

i'm sure i'd love being on a Formula SAE team, but eventually i'd kill cars as a hobby also, and i really don't want to do that.

tech writing makes sense because i inherited geekiness from both of my parents, and my mom was an english major for her BA and always proofread every paper i wrote, so i'm pretty good there as well... it never occurred to me, but i think it's a good path.
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melis
siwwy_wabbit at 2010-07-01 01:27 (UTC) (Link)
Yay! We can be De Anza buddies! :D I highly recommend auto tech classes [for obvious reasons].

/melis
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Generation Y's Howard Beale
dk at 2010-07-01 02:36 (UTC) (Link)
GI Bill won't pay for those, but yeah i plan on it when i can afford it.
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Things Gone and Things Still Here
jette at 2010-07-01 01:56 (UTC) (Link)
Wow, on the plus side I get to see more of you. I was happy to have a friend in LA in case I ever really do move though. (Besides nsgrl and sarillion) ;-)

Edited at 2010-07-01 01:57 am (UTC)
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Things Gone and Things Still Here
jette at 2010-07-01 01:58 (UTC) (Link)
PS good career choice. Engineers usually can't write. I think that's why Eric gets stuck with so much report and proposal writing, which he's good at but doesn't really enjoy as much as the wonkier stuff.
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Generation Y's Howard Beale
dk at 2010-07-01 02:42 (UTC) (Link)
yeah i have a friend who does the same here in LA- and he's got 2 bimmers so obviously not doing too bad for himself.

it didn't even occur to me until i had to pick something other than engineering because de anza doesn't have an AS course for that, but i saw it at the bottom of the list and thought "wow, that makes some sense".
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0sby2day
osby at 2010-07-01 02:13 (UTC) (Link)
yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
I can't wait!!
we need to hang out more Homie!!
oooh... so Dope!!!
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brandywine93
brandywine93 at 2010-07-01 20:18 (UTC) (Link)
check out university of phoenix as well... other than giving a pointless final at the end of class - i've really enjoyed the program and lack of busy work!
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0sby2day
osby at 2010-07-01 22:03 (UTC) (Link)
just be sure to stay on top of your shit at UOP... they like to add classes in your program with stuff you don't need & when you transfer in credits, just make sure they use everything they said they would! I'm just speakin' from experience here!
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Generation Y's Howard Beale
dk at 2010-07-01 22:38 (UTC) (Link)
GI Bill doesn't allow you to take online courses, so UOP is not on the table for me, have to do a traditional school.
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0sby2day
osby at 2010-07-02 21:42 (UTC) (Link)
well... I do the on campus like physically, go to class in a class room teacher, sit in a desk & take notes class... the online classes @ uop are hella confuzing for me man! lol!

But yeah.. i hear you, traditional & not adult school college dealie...
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Colonel Angus
scosol at 2010-07-08 00:56 (UTC) (Link)
fuck all this academic bullshit-

design me a contraption that is field-expedient, repairable by farmers, and installable anywhere, that is a self-contained algae ecosystem that has a consistent, measured oil output per day, per square meter of sunlight.
That's a difference to humanity- and a symbol carved on a wall by a primitive culture to denote god status-
...
I'm slightly upset by it, but I'm gaining confidence that what's needed now isn't Einstein/Newton/Hawking levels of revelation, instead it's Carnegie/Rockefeller levels of simple process organization and industrialization-
Railroads, mining, oil etc- nothing revolutionary- just process and packaging :)
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