1. After having an adviser go over my plan for CprE classes for the next couple years, she pointed out that I can't possibly take both Senior design classes simultaneously. I realize that, but the problem is that there are 3 semesters of lead-in classes that are supposed to happen before those two classes, which would mean that I'll be around ISU FOREVER! F*** my life! (hopefully I can work around this issue)
2. Just got back a CprE test. I would have done better if I remembered that binary to decimal means that I subtract 1, complement the digits, then convert rather than complement, subtract, and convert. This means a bunch of answers were all off by -2. That was not the only stupid mistake on that test. F*** my life!
3. Just had an EE test. I studied for hours last night and figured I had a pretty good grip on how to do the problems, but I was surprised by drastically harder problems with issues that I hadn't ever encountered before (yeah, sure, let's just dump a voltage source in the middle of a circuit, thank you very much). Anyhow, probably didn't go well. Oh well.
Yeah, the stocks as laid out to a friend of mine:
Looking at the market today, I would say that if you're enough of an optimist to guess that the market won't crash down further, I would invest in pretty much anything if I had money. If you're generally asking for ideas, I'm kinda a tech-stock guy, so they'll probably lean that direction. I would look into CRR (Carbo Ceramics) who makes stuff for drilling hard-to-get oil. MMM (3M) is very well-priced for the business and pays a nice 4% dividend too. I can see MSFT (Microsoft) doing well in the next year as they roll-out Windows 7 because pretty much all newer hardware can run it (predicted return of 8+% on MSFT right now!). JNJ (Johnson & Johnson) is predicting even higher returns and also have a nice dividend and huge market shares. GE (General Electric) is also about as good looking price-wise as JNJ and MSFT right now, but that is partially because they have been hurting due to their huge financial business.


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