conflict of interest

just as crunch time starts, comes a delight. tech's hosting various film festivals around the campus. there's the latin american film festival conducted by the speak spanish organization, there's the turkish film festival by the turkish arts council of atlanta, and there's the french film festival by the literature, culture and communications department of georgia tech. number of the ones being shown have gotten excellent ratings on IMDb, and i generally trust the ratings, as very seldom has the ratings failed me. last night, i went to catch a costa rican film 'password' about a 12 year old girl who has family issues and goes on the net, thinking she's chatting with a 14 year old boy, but she's actually being the victim of child prostitution scam. sounds very familiar huh? i swear i saw an american movie with a similar plot. they showed 'maria full of grace' on saturday, but since i had seen that few weeks back, i didnt catch it this weekend.

while trying frantically to cram in as much information as i can for the material science test, i managed to squeeze in some time to catch some great films at night, namely 'equilibrium,' 'truman show,' 'gattaca' and 'the barbarian invasions.' very glad i watched each and every one of them.

so there's a big clash in what i want to do. i should, and am studying for these tests. but at the same time, i wanna catch as many of the films being screened in these film festivals. its making my head hurt, as these are the type of movies i really want to catch, and are rarely available for download.

i can already imagine what i will be doing once the semester ends and i start working, and beyond. since i will be in my own room from next fall, i will make sure i make a huge list of movies to download, and then once im done with work, i'll just start watching them. perfect way to kill time and still enjoy killing it. films from mexico, france and iran have been spectacular thus far. i'll very gladly like to catch more from those region.

i spent some time going through the classes i am going to sign up for the fall semester. time tickets are assigned tomorrow, and i want to make sure i know what classes are being taught by which professors at what time. sadly, two of the classes that i must/can only take next semester also happen to be the only classes offered in the fall, which limits my flexibility for timing for other classes. and one of them might be hard to get into, as my hours are not quite junior status yet (9 hours short) and that might prove costly for this management class i have to take (MGT3078 - Finance and Investment) that is required for industrial engineers, as well as a required prerequisite class for all other classes if i want to get a certificate in finance. the other class is my material science class (MSE3015 - Electrical, Optical and Magnetic Properties) which seems like the only MSE class i can take next semester. the rest are MATH2401 - Calculus III, CS1322 - Object Oriented Programming (Java) and ISYE2027 - Probability. I'm still thinking if I should go ahead and take the Environmental Sustainability class that is being taught by a Delta Sig alum, John, but that remains to be seen. I'll be taking 17 hours then, and I better not put myself at risk again, as i was very fortunate this semester to be taking a 19 hour that almost feels like a 15 hour semester.

i better get back to my material science. even if its not going to make much of a difference, i still need to clarify some complicated theories.