I win the prize for “Outstanding Innovation in the Face of Stupidity”! My PSYC partner and I each spent over an hour trying to figure out how to generate sine waves in Excel. As we both wanted to spend last night studying for our midterms rather than finishing up what we thought would be a trifling exercise for our homework, we decided to meet before class to finish up. She came over at 9:30, and we spent the next hour trying to calculate values and hand-draw the graphs of various sine waves added together. Yuck. Then I had a stroke of inspiration. I input the functions into my graphing calculator, then used my digital camera to take a picture of the screen. I cleaned it up a bit in Photoshop, then slapped it into the homework file. Mmm, multimedia! It looks very artistic, as I’m reflected in the screen. :D

Anyway, just got back from my CSE midterm. I felt a lot more confident about my grasp of the material than I have for previous classes, so there’s that working in my favor. I thoroughly pwnzed the first three of five problems, so regardless of what partial credit I may get, I know I have at least a 65, and these type classes are curved like woah, so I’m feeling good!