Life's Miscellaneous Et Ceteras

Brandon Valosek's reflections on life, philosophy, and programming

Category: College

E-Penis Contest

It’s inevitable:
Put more than two engineers in the same room for a short amount of time, and without fail, the conversation will eventually turn into the classic engineering equivalent of a penis length contest.
By that I mean, the untold competition that is having the most amount of shit to do in the next week or [...]

I’m an April Fool’s Bitch

So yesterday was April Fool’s day, and I completely got owned by three of my friends. I fell for it THREE TIMES. Only two are really worth mentioning, though.
Part I: Anita
While trudging along on the 20-minute walk to school, I decided to call my friend Anita to see what she was up to. She told [...]

The Joy of Doing Nothing

Nothing– no projects, homework, deadlines, assignments, work, or other collegiate responsibilities. At least temporarily.
Temporarily spared from waking up at any certain time (mostly), from walking 20 minutes to class, and from sitting in long lectures meagerly listening and longing to do…
Nothing.
Of course I ought to be doing… something. Like said projects, homework, and assignments… but [...]

Born Of Bordem

There’s a famous quote that says,
“Necessity is the mother of invention.”
This of course referring to the fact that in times of great need, the demand for innovation and scientific development swells to try and compensate for whatever society is needing.
A lesser-know variant is “Boredom is the father of innovation”. For some reason, given 2 or [...]

Computer Zombie

This semester, four of my five classes are based on programming. A compilers class (hard), a computer architecture class (very difficult), a Python class (moderately time consuming), and a VHDL design class (time consuming… and hard). This translates into me having about 1.8 projects due a week that involve a heavy amount of coding… as [...]