Newcastle 1 Man City 0

Final Score from St. James' Park;

English Premier League

Newcastle United 1

Michael Owen (18)

Manchester City 0

Alright, another victory, against a good team, and Owen's scoring streak starts!

College Football Rankings - Week 4

This week's ranking seems like the highest we'll be this season;
AP: 15th (up one from 16th on week 3, missing out on 14th spot by
just 3 votes)
Coaches': 15th (up 3 from 18th in week 3)

Alright... next stop, Blacksburg, Virginia to play 4th ranked
Virginia Tech. The battle of the Techs was a showstopper last season,
as VT came back strong in the last quarter to crush us. I'm afraid
they'll be ready to tear us apart, as they've been ripping teams in
their games so far. If we can keep out defense tight and make decent,
yet effective plays, we should be able to keep the margin to a
minimum. It'll be nerve-wrecking to watch for sure. Another ACC
showdown, and a Coastal divisional one at that.

Go Jackets!

UConn game now updated with pictures.

Blackburn 0 Newcastle 3

Final Score from Ewood Park;

English Premier League

Blackburn Rovers 0

Newcastle United 3

Alan Shearer (62)

Michael Owen (66)

Charles N'Zogbia (85)

Finally, first victory of the season and Owen registers his first for Newcastle. Shearer breaks scoring drought and is 7 away from being the all time highest goalscorer.

UConn 13 GT 28

Final Score from Bobby Dodd Stadium in Atlanta, GA:

NCAA Football Division I

Connecticut Huskies 13 (2-1, Big East 0-0)

No. 16 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets 28 (3-0, ACC 1-0 )

The Bobby Dodd Stadium as it is filling up.


Stupid Raymond... (My ex-Peer Leader's room mate, who continues to claim that I was one of his residents last year, but I'm actually not) I managed to get a shot as he was moving away from the camera.

Gameday!

GAMEDAY...

Oh, how I've looked forward to this weekend.... The Electronic
Properties test was definitely do-able, but I don't think I had
enough time to answer everything the way I should have, plus, I guess
I focused too much on the definition and manipulation of the formulas
as compared to focusing more on the concepts.

For now, I just want to forget about two disastrous tests and get on
with enjoying the game tonight and hoping that Newcastle will
register their first win of the season tomorrow.

U-fuckin'-Conn... watch out, the Jackets are about to sting pretty bad.

Hurry and finish quick, Week 4.

I really can't wait for this week to be over. Really.

Java test went awfully out of control. It was so different from last
year's tests, which I used to practice, which were a piece of cake.
If that isn't enough, there's still the Calculus Quiz for which I
have no clue what we're learning about, but can still solve most
questions. We're doing weird 3-D functions of several variables. To
top it off, there's the Electronic Properties exam on Friday, which
I'm pretty screwed for.

Urrgghh... Please let the next 2 days end quickly for me, because I
can't take it anymore...

Come to think of it, the end of this week marks the first quarter
point in the semester. Wow, that was pretty quick. Before I know it,
I'll be back to work.

College Football Rankings - Week 3

The streak continues. Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets are currently ranked:
AP: 16th (Up 1 from 17th in Week 2)
Coaches': 18th (Up 3 spots from 21st in Week 2)

We're on a roll.. We should win our next game against UConn pretty
comfortably, so we might even make it into top 15. But I'm really
afraid for the game after that one, against Virginia Tech (currently
ranked 4th in both polls) coz they're on a streak and it doesn't seem
they will be stoppable. We need to improve on our defense and test it
out on UConn before the potential slaughter. VT ripped Duke 45-0 over
the weekend.

UNC 21 GT 27

Final Score from Bobby Dodd Stadium in Atlanta, GA:

NCCA Football Division I

North Carolina Tar Heels 21 (0-1, ACC 0-1)

No. 17 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets 27 (2-0, ACC 1-0)

Wow, the game was kinda intense.... Our defense was kinda bad... but we made some very interesting plays. The margin should have been bigger, but hey, we won. We better buck up and play better against UConn next week, if not, we're gonna get smashed by Virginia Tech.

Oh, and I met our former Georgia Tech star basketball player, Jarret Jack! He came back to Georgia Tech for today's game and I got to take a picture with him! He's going to be a big star soon, he got drafted in the 1st Round (22nd pick) for Portland Trail Blazers in the NBA, so keep an eye out for him in the coming season. Funny enough, I noticed that Steve-O and Shelby were in the back while uploading the photo.

My updated back of the SWARM shirt...

Go check out the auburn entry, I've added some nice pictures of the trip.

Newcastle 1 Fulham 1

Final Score from St. James' Park;

English Premier League

Newcastle United 1

Charles N'Zogbia (78)

Fulham 1

Brian McBride (13)

Halfway through the ordeal

How quickly a week can change for me.

After an awesome trip to Auburn, AL and the fantastic game, this week
turned out to be a nightmare. It seemed as if my bad was turned
upside down and all my assignments, homework and other things came
all at once, to be either completed by this week or the next. I've
slept very little, cramming in power naps whenever I can afford them
and working on things from early in the morning until pretty late
into the night. I'm so glad this weekend is here, I need some serious
break. It doesn't help that there's a CS test on Tuesday and MSE test
on Friday. I am seriously lost in the MSE class, and it may be the
first class I might fail at Tech. But it's only the third week and
it's too early. At this point, it's as if I'll be content to get a C
in that class.

I knew this class would be tough, but not this tough that I have
absolutely no clue what's going on. To make things worse, I just got
my textbook from an online purchase, and all these while, I only had
the lecture slides which made no sense whatsoever to me. I decided to
skip out on the GT Six Flags night by selling my ticket to Scott and
to get an early start on my MSE, but it took me about an hour to go
through 10 pages.

The Drude Model is somewhat related to the conductivity issues I
learned during my time in high school, but it goes a notch higher
with the introduction of drift velocities and mean scattering time.
There's just too many variables being introduced and too many
formulas popping up, I'm finding it very hard to keep up. There's
about 9 lectures worth of material I have to go through on my own, on
top of the Java test prep (which shouldn't be too hard, my elementary
C++ knowledge enables me to figure things out as they are very
similar) and other homework, not to mention the research I'm doing on
MARTA.

To make things worse, I undertook an part-time assignment from
RubberNetwork. I thought consolidating spreadsheets would not be too
much of a work, but I seriously underestimated the task. I should
have known, if they were asking me to do it, at the rate I was
getting paid over the summer for this work, it meant it was actual
work. How true that turned out to be, I spent couple of hours
everyday making sure that all the data that were copied from one
spreadsheet to another was right and whatnot. That put a real dent in
my academics for this week. But hey, at least I'm compensated well
for the work.

Java prep shouldn't take too much, I'm going to read through the text
and figure out the key identities and methods that could be used, and
then I'll devote the rest of my time to MSE. Most of tomorrow's time
will be taken up by the game against UNC, but that should be fine.

What's so weird is that I used to do so much more couple of years
back and didn't really feel tired at all, but now it seems I tire
faster with less work. Is it due to the lack of exercise or what? Or
is this what happens as you age?

It's 3, I better get my much needed sleep. This is horrid, I haven't
watched a movie since 'Cronicas', not even on my laptop, and that's
something.

I'm so looking forward to the end of next week already. Oh, this is
going to be long and tough.