Zhanga: January 12, 2006

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Thursday, January 12, 2006 (0 comments)

My classes start at 10 AM on Mon, 8:45 AM on Wed/Fri, and 2:50 PM on Tue/Thu. So I figured Tuesday and Thursday would be my recovery days because I'll be pretty dead after getting up so early the other days.

Well, I just found out that the class I'm TAing for meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 8:30 AM. Goodbye, sleep.

The info thing for computer science UTAs was today. There were about 25 people in the room (4 girls), and almost all of them had been TAs before, so I felt really dumb being the clueless one. I asked so many stupid questions that I felt kind of like Leaky Faucet.

Every time I think about me as a UTA, I feel more and more sorry for the students in that class. As a UTA, I'll have a more-or-less legitimate excuse to make really nerdy jokes, which means I'm going to make a lot (read: thousands) of them. If you thought I make too many bad computer jokes already... you will certainly feel pity for these people.

I'll get to write comments on program code that people turn in for assignments and labs, and I have a feeling that I'm going to be repetitive with the comments. I'll probably scribble notes all over the code, but I don't think there will be many distinct comments. They will probably all be TLAs (three-letter acronyms):

omg!: If I write "omg!" on someone's paper, it'll probably mean that they did something brilliant and that I'd never have thought of it myself. I guess it could also mean "omg you are a dumbass," though.
wtf?: This probably indicates that the student wrote a piece of code that makes absolutely no sense and that I can't figure out what it does. Or it could mean that I can't figure it out because I'm dumb, and whoever wrote it is brilliant and flew it over my head.
lol: This almost certainly indicates that some part of the assignment was done in a retarded fashion and that I somehow found humor in its idiocy.

If I'm in a really good mood, I might use an ETLA (extended three-letter acronym, aka four letter acronym):

lmao: Indicates code so bad that no combination of "omg," "wtf," and "lol" can express my feelings.
rofl: In case lmao gets too repetitive.
redo: That's not an acronym.

I can already see some poor soul getting his paper back with "omg wtf lol" in red everywhere, while I sit in my room laughing.

In other, non-geeky news, I went to get myself a hamburger today. The lady making them repeated my order ("hamburger?") and a few minutes later gave me a cheeseburger. I said I wanted a hamburger again, and she made me a cheeseburger again. I think this is the first time I've gotten cheese twice in a row when I didn't want it. It took about twenty minutes just to get a hamburger. And then she gave me eight onion rings ($1.79). Eight. Baishi and Tai stole a quarter of those, leaving me six.

Zhanga: January 12, 2006

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