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So, my fifth con­sec­u­tive semes­ter at SFU has come to an end, and its time to reflect.

MACM 201 (Dis­crete Math) — This is the per­fect exam­ple of SFU hir­ing teach­ers who can’t speak eng­lish to teach a class that defines a lot of con­cepts we’ll need to know for our future classes. I had no idea what was going on when the guy talked, and thus, I didn’t go to class. Ever. Every­thing was pretty much self taught. But then again, the same goes for all my classes this semester.

MATH 232 (Lin­ear Alge­bra) — Now this was a good math class. It was to the point, made sense, and there was NO proofs. Hey, if its been proved before, why prove it again? It was “applied” lin­ear alge­bra, by the way.

CMPT 275 (Soft­ware Engi­neer­ing) — This is hands down one of the worst classes I’ve ever taken. Now, don’t get me wrong, I like Soft­ware Engi­neer­ing, its actu­ally what I want to spe­cial­ize in, but this class has taught me next to noth­ing. This class was piled on with a ton of bull­shit work that was noth­ing more then work for the sake of work. Every­thing I learned that was valu­able was how to work with a bunch of peo­ple on a peice of soft­ware, but that part lasted only two weeks. We would be marked down for the most ridicu­lous things. How can some­one take a mark off for bad gram­mar when their com­ment is some­thing like “Makes sense not”. If you’re going to dock us marks for Eng­lish, then learn2english. Seriously.

I came into this semes­ter with excite­ment, I expected that I was going to have tons of free time, con­sid­er­ing my sched­ule was 10:30 to 1:30pm, Mon­day, Wednes­day and Fri­day. I was wrong. Both math classes had an assign­ment due every week, and both of them had two midterms. And besides that, we had “deliv­er­ables” for my soft­ware engi­neer­ing class, which were seg­ments of the project due on aver­age due every week and a half. A month into the semes­ter, I pretty much stopped going to lec­tures, half because my teach­ers were use­less (MATH 232 was decent), and because most of the time I spent that time in the math labs try­ing des­per­ately to fin­ish my home­work. It was the most gru­el­ing, intense semes­ter so far, and the only rea­son it doesn’t seem as bad as the first semes­ter at SFU is because I’m used to the punishment.

So, for those of you who go to SFU, and are look­ing for some advice, then NEVER take two math classes at the same time. I did it in the first semes­ter, and I did it this semes­ter, and it did not get any eas­ier. Another thing that I learned was that you should really spred out your classes. I was so excited to just have three hours straight of class, but really, it sucked. I had no breaks, so there was noth­ing forc­ing me to stay up there and hang out. I would just come up, and leave, and what made my other semes­ters at SFU so awe­some was hang­ing out with peo­ple dur­ing the breaks. So what it really comes down to is, if you want to enjoy your time at SFU, don’t just come up the hill for class and leave, you’ll regret it years down the road.

On the bright side, I’m almost done all my math classes, I just have to fin­ish one more (although, its the hard­est one), and then I’m done with pure math­e­mat­ics for the rest of my degree! In the fall, I’m tak­ing MACM 316, ITAL 100, CMPT 320, and I’m con­sid­er­ing ECON 103, would that be too intense of a semester?

And now, it’s finally over. After my last final, I got a don­air with a friend, and then I did what I do after I fin­ish every semes­ter; a cou­ple of hours of doing noth­ing, with­out the lin­ger­ing feel­ing of guilt creep­ing up on me. I’m sure every­one can agree that its the best feel­ing after fin­ish­ing your last final. The great­est feel­ing for me right now is the fact that I won’t be going to school for the first time in five con­sec­u­tive semes­ters. I’m really look­ing for­ward to just going to work for eight hours and com­ing home with­out hav­ing to worry about anything.

There are so many things I’m look­ing for­ward to this sum­mer, I’d list them all but I’m sure I’ll blog about them eventually.

So, the Canucks were put out of com­mis­sion yes­ter­day, los­ing to a team we haven’t lost to in reg­u­la­tion in 12 games. I was there, live, and let me tell you, we played with no skill, and worse, no heart. The Canucks have been a team that has been dom­i­nated as of late, giv­ing up two goal leads too many times to count. The fact of the mat­ter is, we did not deserve to even make the play­offs, and in the long run, not mak­ing the play­offs might be bet­ter for the orga­ni­za­tion as a whole.

But despite all that, I still wanted the Canucks to make the play­offs. Sure, we prob­a­bly would’ve got­ten swept by Detroit in the first round, you have to agree that play­off hockey is one of the most excit­ing times of the year in Van­cou­ver. It just brings some­thing to this city, it brings peo­ple together like noth­ing else. Its always the num­ber one pri­or­ity around here (like when I had a cal­cu­lus final exam the day after the first Dal­las play­off game, and sayed for the whole thing). The games are always more excit­ing to watch, and I love see­ing the city dec­o­rated in Canucks mer­chan­dise, I’ll espe­cially miss see­ing car flags everywhere.

What should be done in the off sea­son? I’m not sure at this moment. I’m hop­ing for a top 6 for­ward who is Cana­dian, that would be ideal, but there aren’t many options out there. If you guys want to see a good unre­stricted free agent list, check it out: www.hfboards.com.

Lets all hope Nonis can pull another Luongo-esk type deal