Roommates & Breakups

I just realized something today. Ever since I came to Maryland, all of my roommates have had heavy relationship drama problems. The person who leased to me my first apartment here broke up with her long-time boyfriend, who I roomed with. The next apartment I had half a year later had three roommates, and ALL of them have had a lot of relationship drama. One of them just broke up with his long-time girlfriend. The second one's girlfriend broke up with him while he visited New York. Just recently, my third roommate had a huge fight with his girlfriend, and they both proceeded to break up with each other. This is a pretty eerie trend I've been seeing ever since coming here to the mainland....

On a happier note, I played some League of Legends games today with my friends. It's been so long since I've played, and I hope I can improve fast enough so that I don't bog them down. This game is pretty fun when playing with friends. There's just too much toxicity when playing with randoms.

Bad Exam Experience

Well, I finished taking my finance class midterm tonight, and I did absolutely horrible. This was definitely one of the hardest exams I've taken in my life. I could only confidently answer a fourth of the exam questions. I'm just mentally exhausted after this and wanna take a break. Unfortunately, I have other projects to attend to tomorrow so no rest for the weary. I also managed to finish my Great Lakes scholarship application last night and hope that I can get it for the next academic year. This memory just crossed my mind so I'm just gonna jot it down right now. Two or three weeks ago, I explained to Colin what computer processors, RAM, and CPU cores were, and gave the "person at a desk" to make it easier for him to understand. This explanation came from when he asked about the hardware differences between the regular Nintendo 3DS and the New Nintendo 3DS. I appreciated being able to explain this to him.

I FINALLY got my Hiroyuki Takahashi artbook in the mail on Friday! I thought it got lost in the mail and actually contacted Crunchyroll to send me a replacement. An even more pleasant surprise was that I got a misprint edition; the book had a few duplicates. If I ripped off two specific pages, it would become the regular version, not that I would want to rip it at all. The actual art is amazing and high quality. The material of the book is great and doesn't feel cheap. I don't regret buying this at all.

A Brief Respite

These last two hellish weeks are finally over. I've just been so occupied with schoolwork, projects, and exams that I just didn't have the mindset to update this blog. This week, I've had two days where I slept only an hour. Next week will also be pretty busy, but it doesn't seem too bad right now. I'll just put down what I can remember these last two weeks that doesn't involve school. During last week's Anime Friday, we watched Ixion Saga DT and more Problem Children. Ixion Saga was pretty amusing so I'm just gonna put that on my plan-to-watch list. Nothing big happened in club meetings this Sunday except there were a huge amount of people came along to eat dinner afterward the meeting ended. In the middle of the week, I got Kenji's early birthday gift. It was Bonobo's LateNightTales album. The case came in damaged though.

The actual music is pretty great though. I downloaded the digital album with code included, but the songs had some missing tags like track number and album name, which kind of irked me. Recently, I also bought Dead or Alive 5: Last Round and Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin for PC. DOA5 is pretty alright. It runs pretty well on both my laptop and desktop, and I don't see any issues with it so far. I don't know how to feel about this version already having a good number of the costumes I bought for a large price in the previous DOA5U. I'll most likely use this version as a practice machine unless I see frequent sales on costumes on Steam. As for Dark Souls 2: SotFS, it's not bad. New enemy placements surprised me. I've yet to encounter any online invaders. The game seems pretty bright, but I can always change this in the settings. It would have been nice if enemies and bosses had additional moves, but oh well. There's going to be another Anime Friday tonight, but it'll be at my place this time. I'll be having lunch with Mark and Kaitlyn soon so that's about it for this update.