So, I went to the bank this morning to see if I could get a student line of credit for this next year. I’ve just finished my undergrad and I have the letter of acceptance from the faculty. I’m thinking that as an engineering student with a known income that’s greater than my tuition payments, I shouldn’t have too much difficulty. Right?

Wrong. I meet with a relatively friendly lady, who asks me the usual questions about this that and the other. She asks me if I have a letter of acceptance to the university, which I do, but she finds the one snag I didn’t think about. The letter is based on the condition that I graduate. I’m quick to reply that I just recently got my grades back from last term, and they’re all passes, so that shouldn’t be an issue. I even offered to log into my student account so that she could print out an unofficial transcript proving that I’ve completed my degree. Nope… not good enough.

Then she says, we can start the application process and then fill in the last piece when I have the actual real letter of acceptance, not this “Yup, you’re in as long as you pass” document that I have (dispite the fact that I passed). I go along with it, figuring that it’ll be less time I have to spend later. We look through, and the only existing source of credit I have is my Visa card (which is currently at a negative balance). She tells me that I don’t have much credit, and that it might make it a little harder to get the loan…

How is a person supposed to get credit if you don’t give them a chance? Isn’t that the whole point? Me having credit means that you trust me to pay you back later, but how can I gain that credit if you don’t lend me a little bit now? If you don’t want to lend me the full $55K (which is what she was suggesting), then lend me less and don’t give me such a hard time about it.

Gah… I needed to vent.

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So… I’ve only got about three weeks left of my undergrad. I’m really dying here. I just want it all to be over.

Things that await me this summer:

• Setting up a 20 node computing cluster (each node has 8 cores)
• Scuba Diving trip to the Red Sea
• Month long Europe trip with friends
• Starting on graduate studies work
• Road trip with my girlfriend

So… you can see that I’ve got a whole lot more things that I’d rather be doing than the end of this degree. Grumble…

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I GOT IN!!!!

I just got an e-mail from Dr. Konrad Walus of the Electrical Engineering department here at UBC telling me that he just signed off on my application for a Masters of Applied Science. I’m gonna be working on a pretty wicked project, and I get to manage a computing cluster.

Needless to say, I’m excited.

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So - it’s been a good long while since I wrote anything here. Life has kept me quite busy lately, but things are good.

It’s Engineering Week right now at UBC, so things are definitely crazy. Skulk Night was a lot of fun (some pictures to come later), and other events have been great. We’ve still got the Four-legged race, dodgeball, and FilmfEUSt to go, all of which I believe my department, Fizz, can win. We’ve got a really really funny video for FilmfEUSt, and I’ll post it up here when it’s done and judged.

So… to answer your question - no, I’m not dead.

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With regards to the song “With or Without You”:

Let the phrase “with you” be p, then ~p would be “without you”.
Let q be “I can’t live”

p U ~p → q
T → q
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q
 

So… we can see that Bono shouldn’t be alive.

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