Applied for CS course dev role

The professor of the introductory CS class I took this spring mentioned that I might be interested in a role as a developer for the course. These developers would be responsible for the software that runs the class. It seems like serving as a course dev would be a boost to chances of admission to the university's CS program, so I applied today. Interviews are next week.

First chemistry exam went well

A few days ago, results from Monday's organic chemistry midterm came in. I'm fairly certain that I missed at least two questions (I looked those two up at home after the exam), but apparently there was some kind of curve or partial credit, because I got a 99%. That's encouraging, but things are going to get more tricky - the first chapter covered after the exam includes twelve different reaction methods.

Ready for organic chemistry midterm

Tomorrow is the midterm exam for my organic organic chemistry class, so tonight the professor held a review session. The practice exams were straightforward - I knew how to do everything; mistakes came from overlooking little things. I will make sure to recheck my work on the exam.

Coming up on summer midterm

Next Monday is the midterm for the online organic chemistry class. All material covered on the exam has now been done in class. Tomorrow I will complete the homework for the most recently covered chapters, then I can go back and review older material and do the practice exams. I think the intensity will increase further after the midterm, since a lot of the material done at the beginning was at least partially review from general chemistry. We've only done four reactions (SN1, SN2, E1, E2) and I suspect there are a lot more to learn.

Back home

Today we did the remainder of the drive back home, starting from Council Bluffs. After getting back, I caught up on some things and did some studying for the online chemistry discussion, which took the usual two and a half hours. I still have a lot of work to do for chemistry: three chapters in two days.

Omaha

Originally I was going to use this evening to attend a live online discussion for chemistry class, but it got canceled due to technical difficulties on the instructor's end. So instead my father and I looked for interesting things to do around the Omaha area. We settled on the Bob Kerrey Pedestrian Bridge. After walking it, we found quite a bit of nice park area.

South Dakota

Continuing our visit of the Mountain timezone, my father and I headed to Mt. Rushmore this morning. On the way, we stopped at the very nearby Crazy Horse mountain carving. The carving itself is still in progress; the visitor center had a lot of interesting history on the carving and the Native Americans it honors.

After exploring that, we got to Mt. Rushmore.

Beginning our trip back home, we went through the Badlands.