I have one more ridiculous final on Thursday for IEOR 170 with Professor Goldberg. When I first heard of the class last summer (from a fellow intern), I was immediately intrigued. The course title Industrial Design and Human Factors seemed to directly relate with my intended graduate course of study. So I enrolled in it for this spring semester, also encouraging my coworker Vanessa to do it too.

To my disappointment, it wasn\’t all that it was. I thought it would be a class about design. We would design something viable, but instead our class project was to design a class for incoming freshmen IEOR majors. What\’s worse was that Professor Goldberg had the tendency to criticize everything. As a result, we would constantly have to redo the entire project for the next deadline. But nonetheless. This will be my last final in Berkeley. Thursday 12:30 pm. What a way to end my career at Cal.

My first two finals were…well…I suppose I wasn\’t as prepared as I hope I could be. My philosophy final this morning was quite sad. I entered the final with an A and I am lucky if I finished off with a B+. But we\’ll see. It\’s the fact that I had a conversation with someone I used to know on Sunday night–right outside in the cold night–that threw me off. I like to have things arranged and planned. A single disruption almost interrupts my way of doing things. I don\’t realize it until later…but it\’s often the lack of sleep that drives me almost insane.