First Code

I remember writing my first few codes. They were nothing big, just a few lines of extremely simple code. No complications whatsoever.

I had a hell-ish time though. I had no idea what i was doing, didn't understand what the professor was saying, didn't understand what the textbook was saying, and basically had no fuckin idea what i was doing. It took me a long time to figure out how an 'if - else' statement worked, or how a 'for' loop worked, or even how declaring variables needed a type and how the types varied. These were all extremely simple concepts, which in hindsight i should have gotten in the first few attempts, but i labored over them for many many hours. There were times where i was on the verge of tears, as a friend explained to me for the (literally) 10th time how a loop worked.

I stuck to it. With kind words from friends who had more experience, and from my dad, ( things like "We all had problems when we first started, just try hard and it'll eventually all fall into place" ), i eventually got the hang of it. I began to write my own code. Damn right. Not code i'd copied from someone, not code where i'd looked into someone elses laptop for a hint, but code i'd thought of on my own. And that was beautiful. It all fell into place miraculously. It all made sense!

And thus the love saga started. 

Pullu

One of our best friends (here onwards known as Pullu), is a fucking genius.

No really, he is.

Hes sorta scary too. He can get you killed (inside joke, nvm).

In the aforementioned CS 225 class (which we're taking next semester, and are terrified of), there are about 10 Freshmen in a class of over 150 kids, the rest being Sophomores or Juniors. In this class, Pullu got like a 94 in his first midterm, and thats one of the 5 highest scores in the entire class. Hes a fucking freshmen!

To our benefit though, we've been lucky enough for him to have a liking towards us, and he agreed to room with us next year.

Oh, he's also got a research project with one of the professors. No more details about that though, cause hes been made to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement. All i can say is that its super-interesting, super-revolutionary, and they gotten massive funding for it.

On top of that, he did so well in last semester's CS course that the professor asked him to hold office hours this semester, so that students taking it this semester could ask him for help.

Yeah. So.. yeah.

Semester 2

This semester looks to be flying by. Spring break is just around the corner and it marks the halfway point of the semester. It promises to be an interesting break. We're all going to Chicago for a couple of days, my first visit to the Windy City.
The Q6 fiasco is pretty sorted out now. That was quite a scare.
Other than that, this semester just keeps getting better and better. =)