20.12.05

Why my bard is Agi-build

People always ask me why I never get vit, and instead die quicker than a fly running into one of those electric frying machines. I think I'll list down a few reasons I'm never getting any Vit for my bard. Even if I turn minstrel...

1. Vit bards are incredibly hard to level, and I don't have the time to level them. It's already been over a year and my bard is still in the 80s. That's quite pathetic, considering some people can get to 99 in weeks. If I went Vit, I'd never level and RO would get boring, and I would probably quit.
2. This doesn't mean I can't get a little vit. But still, I won't go for vit. I like a more "all or none" type stat, where if I get some of something, I'll go all out. So if I wanted to get vit, I would have instead gone all the way to 80 or something, as is my agi. Similarly, I believe having low agi sucks more than having no agi.
3. My character was not meant for PvP / WoE. I don't like killing people. I hate it even more when people kill me. Hatred and spite are evil, we must try avoiding them as much as possible. Same with drama. RO is a game! We should all have fun~~
4. Speaking of fun, I want to have best of both worlds- Soloing on own and partying/supporting other people. By having Agi, I'm able to level and kill decently (against monsters), while at the same time still able to play music for others and help others level (or level with them by supporting). If I went all Vit, I would not have the solo/ fast killing capability I have right now, which would make my character, again, very boring.
5. I also like Agi more than vit because I find it hilarious when people use attacks that miss on me. :p That doesn't happen often though...
6. Vit you get hurt, you recoil. Agi you miss, and walk away.
7. Dying is quite fun!!
8. Pretending you're super buff by taking lots of damage is not as cool as dodging. D:


On the side note, I do think my skills could use a little change. While level 10 Perfect Tablature is pretty fun, giving up to 25 more flee, I really think I should have got level 5 melody strike because then I could REALLY do some damage. Also, Magic strings because apparently wizards would level more with you if you had better magic strings. :(

15.12.05

Finally.... Final grades for Finals

...though finals are over, storms are just beginning...
Can't help but notice how my final marks are. Barely above average, most likely going to drop me down to an overall B+ grade in Molecular Biology (and possibly Calculus) instead of the A- I was hinging on. What's quite depressing is how I actually make an effort to do well in Molecular Biology and fail to do so, while in other classes where I slack off as much as possible (BME 101 and comp sci 101), I seem unable to fail even on the final. A mere 30 minutes give me a better final grade in BME than it does compared to a couple days worth of studying Molecular Biology.

It's grades like these that make me feel stupid and useless. XP

8.12.05

Uh... WTF(reak)?

Today, while checking facebook, I recieved this message:

"hi eric. this is brooke from writ140 last year . anna and i say hello and we just were discussing how cool your cricket ringtone was that one time it went off in class. that's all. hope finals go well."

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Randomness is people you don't know or remember sending you messages saying your cell phone, which sounds like a cricket, is cool.

6.12.05

Finals Finals!! FUN FUN!!!! YAYAYA!!!!

So, I should be studying, but I decided to take an inappropriate break to post in my blog, surf the internet, and basically waste the rest of my grade which is goign to result in wasting my chance to get an A in Molecular Biology. I also come to the conclusion that studying can cause insanity. So, by not studying I'm saving some of my sanity? /hmm I should get back to studying!!!!

But before that let's have a little unrelated talk about competition and different schools and such. I've been meaning ot talk about this for a while. One day in my lab, my collegues (are the lab-mates, like classmates or something like that?) were talking about how other colleges run labs and graduate programs, and apparently "big" places like Harvard have extremely depressing graduate programs. These are programs where people are all out to kill each other, doing anything (not just studying) to get the best grades (though I have yet to hear of anyone killing a fellow student for the sake of getting top grades). This was particularly curious to me. While I know that it's definately an environment I can not survive in, I also sort of feel that I could relate to something like this. Not intellectually, for I believe that my intelligence is not enough for any of these schools to do even basically well; but I kind of understand the competitiveness, even for a rather "lenient" school like this. It is probablyb ecause of my lack of intelligence that I feel this way. Anyway, while most of my labmates are pretty horrified about how these "advanced" school does things, I just sat there and wondered.
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I can't for graduate life!!! :p *is so dead, taking BME and Bio major XP*