Pete's Log:
Entry #840, (Life in General)(posted when I was 22 years old.)
Apparently some teen in Mississippi on trial for drug charges was found to have marijuana on him when he showed up for the trial. Incredible.
Today's been pretty good so far: I was told twice that I'm wonderful. Beyond that, I've been rather lazy today. Though I did get up rather early. But after comp arch I realized that I have nothing due until monday, and my graphics course this afternoon got cancelled. So I pretty much loitered in the undergrad lab most the afternoon. I did answer various compiler questions, though, so I wasn't completely worthless.
This whole compilers thing has me kinda sad. I mean, it should be a really cool class, but this whole code thing is just making life miserable for people. I was looking at my code from last year. My ast had 8 node types, including the base type. The code given to the students this year has 25. There's just too much complexity here, I think. Yet again I've found myself thinking of the concept of actually going into teaching. Sometime in the long term future. Because I think I could be good at it, given some practice and some instruction and such. Which of course puts me back to thinking about the whole idea of getting a Ph.D. I guess eventually I will want one of them things. But in the meantime, I'll just keep answering compiler questions.