No more teachers, no more books? Please?

Well, seeing how as school is started up again and all, I suppose it’s time to give a brief update, no? I’m taking almost all of my classes at Ferris this year, and my one GRCC class doesn’t start ‘till Monday. The Ferris classes, though, are a mixed bag. It’s defiantly going to be a homework-heavy semester…wait, make that is one. Already working on some big projects, complete with the frustration and the headaches. The Advanced Lighting and Rendering class in the current thorn in my flesh and will likely remain so for the next 15 weeks of my life. Dull, tedious work taught by a rather dry prof. Good news is my other classes are a lot of fun. I’ve already had to play twenty minutes worth of Unreal Tournament as ’homework’, and we watched a movie and played charades first day of the User Interface Design class (All in the name of education, of course). Coolest thing? My prof for the Game Design class actually made to classic ’Lost Mind of Dr. Brain’ game I used to play as a kid. That game rocked hardcore.
Still, the amount of homework will put a sad and abrupt end to what has been a great streak of reading I’ve been able to keep going over the summer, averaging at least one book a week. I’ll be sad to see that go, but I hope to work on a few yet anyways.

On a sorta-kinda-but-not-really school note, Nintendo (See? Gaming industry…tied to my major!) will be holding a press conference next Thursday, the 14th, to officially announce the price and release date of the Wii, along with several new games. (Rumored) Seeing how as I’m going into the gaming industry and this in potentially market-changing technology, and seeing how as my Gamecube is slowly but surely dying on me, I feel completely justified in buying a Wii in the name of education. It will just be nice to know how much it will cost me.

On a final note and if you haven’t bought the newest Jars of Clay album yet, do yourself a favor and do so immediately. While I won’t say it’s their best one yet (only because it’s up against very, very stiff competition), it’s getting close to my favorite and I’ve barely stopped listening to it since I bought it. Good times, y’all.