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I had my first Monster Energy drink couple days ago. It was the extremely large can. I got it because I had to study as much as I could and I was already tired from lack of sleep the day before. The drinks works, but I wouldn’t recommend it as a study aid. It’s such a funny feeling of wide awakeness and exhaustion that it was really hard to focus on anything. The exam would have been easy, if I had really studied and practiced. But I don’t know how well I did. It was a busy week overall school-wise. Monday I had to finish a project for Artificial Intelligence. Everyone is familiar with the 8 puzzle game. It’s basically those 3×3 boards with tiles scrambled up with one tile section missing so you can shuffle them around. My program basically solves whatever configuration you give it, if it is solvable. It works perfectly, and I’m pretty proud that I finished it. Very rare that I feel real accomplishment in my school projects. I also had a project for Computer Graphics which wasn’t too bad, but pretty time consuming. Basically programming OpenGL graphics. I’ve made graphics with software tools before, but programming straight code was kind of tedious.

Friday after I took the exam, I took the rest of the day off. Went to watch Doom with a school friend. I didn’t really want to watch it, but we had nothing else to do. My low expectations for the movie actually made it entertaining enough for 2 hours. I’m not saying it’s any good, just wasn’t terrible. Then I came home and started playing Shadow of the Collosus. This game is amazing. It’s easily one of my favorites of all time. I finished it today, it only took about 10 hours of game time to complete. The style of the game, music, art direction, everything was top notch. I just love the sheer size of the world and the Collosi you battle. If you’ve played or heard of ICO, this game was developed by the same team. I’m gonna have fun the rest of the weekend as next week is another busy school schedule.