Estupideces en el ITESM

Este post va en español, porque el contenido del correo en cuestión, está en español. Además, hace años (en serio años) que no escribo en español para un blog.

Esta nota, es realmente un mail que ha bombardeado mi bandeja de entrada desde hace un par de días. Me puso tan de malas, que decidí echarle mierda en este momento, ya que me siento muy enfermo (y cansado porque la toz no me deja dormir) como para seguir haciendo tarea. (Así me sentía cuando lo empecé. Lo debí publicar la semana pasada, pero se me atravesaron los exámenes)

Bien. Primero que nada. Probablemente esto lo redacto algún idiota de preparatoria/profesional del CEM, ya que habla de CCI y un par de cosas comunes entre la jerga estudiantil del Campus Estado de México.

Para los que no tengan la menor idea, el sistema del ITESM, y en particular el CEM siempre ha estado rodeado de elitismo en el que las demás escuelas son una mierda (de hecho algunas lo son) y todos son unos maricas (excepto UNAM/IPN) por no ofrecer planes de ingeniería como dios manda. Por ser parte de la “Cultura TEC“, más de alguna vez mencionas ese punto como estudiante, claro que nunca lo lanzas hablando en serio. Si no hubiera gente estudiando carreras sencillas, el mundo sería un desastre.

El problema, es que la gente confunde el elitismo promovido en el Tec, con  el elitismo impulsado tanto por una sociedad externa como por la sociedad interna de estudiantes. El resultado, es que hay una cantidad inmensa de cosas como esta, aplicaciones pendejas, grupos pendejos en Facebook y demás basura que no viene al caso.

Así que, comenzamos.

Thing #4. Team work

I enjoy going to school. I enjoy studying. I enjoy going to school. I enjoy studying. I enjoy going to school. I enjoy studying…

Ok, I don’t. I hate to waste time, and studying subjects that have little, to no relationship with my career makes me mad. Way mad. But I don’t have a choice, so I “try” to like it. Even though, I tend to complain too much about the way things develop. I guess it’s just that I hate lazy people with the idea “you’re the smart guy, so you do all the job”. I really, REALLY, FUCKIN’!!! hate it.

It happened (a few times but happened) during my first semester. It happened again during the second semester, a lot of times. Now, during the summer classes, it’s happening again. Thanks god, there were only a few activities that need to team up, and I worked with a friend, who gets the job done as it should be.

A poetic, epiphany for a geek

It’s been a curios weekend. I feel extremely anxious and nervous due to the final exams. I know what will happen, but I don’t know yet what to do. It’s a pain in the ass.

Anyway, this post is about a two-stage religious experienice I had this weekend. I was kind of bored, angry, tired and some other things I won’t list here, so I decided that it would be a good choice to practice Java a bit. I launched Eclipse, and took my programming folder. To my surprise, I only had two classes left from the previous course: My actual final project, and the project of the systems engineers from Monterrey’s ITESM campus. As I didn’t know the second, I chose it as it sounded more interesting.

I started coding immediatly the class. Less than half an hour later, I had the basic scheme finished. It was kind of stupid to think that it costed me next to none effort, considering that only the basic scheme of my final project took me more than 5 hours. I felt happy, but at the same time I realized that our campus is the only one that offers a more-or-less complete plan studies, and it features some unique specializations.

Anyway, I really hate the ITESM marketing, so I’ll stop there. I wrote the code of the class, fought a little with an array of objects, and polished the interface. After testing it, I checked all the code, searching for errors. I found a very stupid one, I forgot to close a ‘case’ statement, so the next statements would be executed after finishing the one with the problem.

I opened space within the code to write the last command of the of my class. It was poetical. The last command I wrote was:

break;

University

As I wrote in my about section, I’m studying Systems Engineering at ITESM. Although I commonly write in my blog about technology, Linux and many other stupid notes, after all this is my personal blog, a site dedicated completely to fulfill a simple task: To be torn apart as I want, saying whatever I want to say. Correct, incorrect, or anything else, without even taking into consideration if what I’m doing is morally or sociably acceptable.

So as that, I decided I wanted to write about some aspects of what is, and will be my career. These last days, I haven’t had much time to think in many stupid things of my life, but the feel that I should write about some general aspects of my university has passed from a vague idea to a serious wish.

I don’t know yet what will be my first post on this, but I’ll begin to plot some ideas. Right now, I’m only thinking in writing about everything related to university, but not limiting to a specific topic. I plan to write from stupid things like my irrational hate toward dominicans and other types of scum that usually wander around the CEM, to investigations I’ve done that took the shit out of me. Really, there have been a couple of projects that are plainly stupid, and are way too specific to find any useful information on the net.

I  I just hope to complete my MP3 tutorial before getting into this. I hate starting a lot of projects, and not finishing most of them, and it’s something I commonly do. Perhaps I’ll finish them both on the fly. Perhaps I should fuckin’ stop at once talking about the future and start working on everything I want to do. Time to get my hands dirty, again.

"The Red Thing", seen from far.

I couldn’t help it. I really had to post the red thing as the “artwork” for my beginning post. I mean, it’s the red thing… It’s part of the common life at the CEM.