New Semester

   "Spring" semester started yesterday. Fall and Spring. We don't like to talk about winter, I guess, bad for morale? I love the light, tiny snowflakes that waft around, in no hurry to settle down. I'm not finding winter oppressive, and sunset is already nearly an hour later than it was a month ago.
   This semester I'm taking CS240 Operating Systems; CS395 Algorithmics; and CS570 Artificial Intelligence. I'm also a TA for CS121 and a tutor in the Computer Science Assistance Center. This is all looking to be quite challenging and fun. AI seems quite scary at the moment, lots of hard coding coming up, plus a graduate-level research paper due at the end. I hope I haven't made a big mistake. There is a Humbert Wolfe quote that I know only imperfectly: something about "faith, and the courage to fail in all but kindness." I am going to be mumbling that to myself quite often this semester. Also, I need to read some of this man's poems.