Hello, hello!
Hi how are you?
You know? Not bad. Life is pretty good right now.
That's good.
I actually expected you to be someone else. She said she'd be online at 12:50. Not that it's bad I'm talking to you!
Whoops
I'm sure you're a fine person, no doubt. I was just surprised to see you here is all.
I can log out and log back in if you need me too.
Nah. I think you're fantastic. But I don't think I've met you before.
Nope
Are you new? Or am I just blind?
I just haven't been on here forever.
Ah. That explains it. So why're you dropping in again?
I started before the competition and haven't gone back until now.
Oh, wow, really?
Yep, exactly
Are you aiming to win this time aroudn? *aroudn *around
Nope haha
My goodness. So just, I dunno, looking to kill a few minutes talking with strangers online?
Nope not that either haha I'm doing this for the raffle
So you're . . . getting experience for when the next round boots up? Ah. It is a pretty good raffle. I don't know why I didn't participate last round. I've stumbled into a bit of free time, so I figured I might as well shoot for the top and get first. It hasn't been, um, the most successful.
Nice! You got this!
Heh, I hope so. The problem is, there's rarely people to talk to.
I definitely don't have the time.
You're the first person in about an hour.
Yep, I've noticed that too
Yeah, that's the problem. I don't think most people do. The time part.
I try to do it during down time and nobody is on...
Not the not noticing part. I know, right? I think I've spent six hours waiting at one point. It's a little annoying when you have the ambition to win but no one to climb with.
Dang that's a ton of time to wait.
Yeah. It's okay, though. I do other things in my off time.
You just have to stay on all day I guess haha
"Oh, hey! It's a notification! Hello, hello, I'm--oh, it's just a ghost. Never mind."
That's good. I would go crazy if this were the only thing I were doing.
I can't tell you how many time there's been no one on the other end. Ugh, me, too. There's no way. It's fun when you're in conversation but a nightmare when you're waiting.
Exactly.
I've got a personal project I'm working on, so I do that while I wait. Oh, hey! Which major are you?
I tried chitchatting with myself but that didn't work.
Hehe, I totally get you. Plus, I feel bad about messing up their data.
Electrical engineering. And you?
But go on. I'm a computer science major.
Nice
I don't think I could handle electrical engineering. There's so much hardware and precise measurements and bleh. That's tough stuff. But I'd love to learn it. Gosh, that'd be amazing.
Yeah?
Do you know how cool it'd be to be a mechanic? C'mon. You can fix any problem, assembly your own computers, do anything. *assemble Force of habit. We use a lot of assembly language, so the "y" comes naturally.
That would be cool.
What sort of thing do you do in EE? Mostly hardware?
Assembly language is so difficult to understand.
Amen.
Yeah mostly hardware. But there is some programming too. Lots of math. But it's not too bad.
(I feel bad for my classmates. They're about to tackle a project that's almost nothing but assembly. They have my condolences.)
That's no fun. I would die.
So, are you the people that are in charge of building robots? Do you compete in places? What about building rockets? Anything about AI? Er . . . heh, sorry, I have questions.
I think that's mainly the mechanical engineers that build robots.
Oh, really? Are mechanical engineers different from electrical engineers?
I honestly don't have a ton of knowledge about my own major though.
Oh. Are you new?
Yep
Makes sense, then. Which year? Freshman? Or just new to the major?
First. And it is definitely difficult.
No kidding. Electrical engineering is brutal. I rank it up there with ACME.
Same with computer engineering isn't it?
Well, sort of, but it's a different kind of brutal.
What is ACME?
It feels more like taking gigantic math word problems and getting the solution.
True. I can see that.
It stands for . . . advanced computation and mathematics emphasis or something? It's a major you can get here.
Huh, that's got to be a tough one.
And you can do different emphases, or however you spell that. No kidding. There's something called the fish bowl in the Talmage.
The fish bowl? What's that?
It's where all the crazy smart math nerds--and I mean crazy smart--go to do their homework. Imagine a small classroom with nothing but glass walls. They spend something like 10 hours per day in there.
Well I should definitely go there to study!
Haha, it's a small room. It's right next to the math lab, actually. They connect. And I think they only allow ACME majors or something?
Where at in the Talmage?
I think they're a cult. Er, somewhere on the north side. If you ask for the math lab, most people can direct you.
Okay.
And the fish bowl is connected to it.
That's cool.
But, man, let me tell you, it really takes a type of character to go into ACME.
I have to go but have a great day!
You, too! It was fun talking.
Have fun talking with your friend!