November 07, 2006

It's been almost a month since my last post but for good reason. Mid terms were at the last two weeks of October and I spent the first two weeks studying. I just failed the math mid term but since it was so borderline I can still pass.

They sent the tuition bill for the spring semester to my address in New York; so I didn't pay in time but luckily there were no consequences and I got that taken care of. I registered my spring classes but some of the classes I wanted to take were full unfortunately. I only got 19 out of the 22 I wanted to take. I'll be staying over the summer it look like to take an additional 10 - 20 credits. Just to lighten my load for next year.

Despite my skepticism on the first semester team project (Turing test) it's actually coming along quite nicely. It has a 70 percent accuracy rate which is quite nice. I'm debating weather or not to post the finished programs as each semester closes since it may reveal who I am.

Recently I was at Gas Powered games play testing a game called Supreme Commander. Beyond that I can't say much since I did sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement.

What I can say is that tomorrow I will be hauling my ass down to Monolith productions to play test another game. I need to figure out how to get to their offices, I might car pool. Although I don't know anything about it other than it's a console shooter with multi player and is in early concept stages, which means spring 2008 release and a fall 2007 announcement. Although I may be wrong and completely off. I haven't seen the thing yet. But, once I have I'll have signed another NDA telling me to keep my mouth shut. It's awesome to play test games since there's usually soda and pizza.

Class has been going along as usual, nothing really major to note. The project is moving along nicely, it's week 10 and the project is in early alpha stages. The final deliverable is due week 15.

A lot of people have already dropped out. My math class especially has emptied out after the mid term. I'm borderline so I'm working my ass off to pass otherwise I'll be down over $1,000 to retake the class. I'm doing fine in all my other classes.

Other than the two play tests and mid terms, October was uneventful and November seems the same way.

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