It ended a week ago, but I want to say what a relief it is to be out of my first class at Wake Tech! I just checked my grades, and I got an A for the class. I’m guessing I did the final mostly right despite one or two areas of concern.

Going into the class, I worried that it was too long since I last learned anything in a formal manner. I was able to keep up despite some lax study habits on my part, and got the grades to move on. I do need to work on those study habits, however.

The new campus is a well-designed set of buildings with lots of ample indirect lighting and a lot of energy-saving features we expect from all but the dumbest architects these days. The southern faces are covered in solar baffles about 4 meters away from the building which casts a long shadow through the majority of the days in summer, while letting the low winter sun in. The buildings are all clad in reflective material to reject as much IR absorption as possible. A nice lawn (still patchy from construction) sits in the middle of the campus. In total, it’s a relaxing place to take classes.

Next semester is split between the North and main campuses. I have Statistics I (yaay) and English 112 (boo) on my schedule for spring term. I’ll probably be dumping my English stuff on the site as I write it.