Today I completely forgot to check into the fraternity house. I didn't show up to anything related to the society except for the time when they served us dinner, and I didn't manage to even notice Pledge President's messages within 2 hours of them being sent. I didn't thinkt here was a point to messaging back at that point, but maybe I aught to have.

HOWEVER, I finished my BST and understand it fully, so now I just have to read and understand the assignment. Conservatively: It should take about 10-15 minutes of studying to figure out what the assignment expects, then I expect 20-30 minutes of deciding a general path for solving it, and then about an hour for writing the data structure diagram and at least 3 hours for coding it. Then I have to study Hashing for the lab and write a quadratic probe. I'll figure that out when I get to it.

Oh man! Roger is online. I haven't heard from him in ages. I miss that guy lots, but it's weird because we usually don't have much to talk about.

So, seeing this awesome progress in a class which I was afraid might be a lost cause has made me realize that.... pledging is killing my grades. I talked to my adviser and he really laid it down for me straightforwardly. Basically, he told me that pledging, while it has some benefits, does not measure up to the benefits which I will lose if my GPA drops this semester. Also, he pointed out the fact that the classes I'm taking are incredibly expensive, so I don't want to fail them and have to pay more to take them again.

So basically, I've resolved to be a bad pledge this week. I had already agreed with myself, before AO said it'd be "hell-week", that I would prioritize data structures this week and get on the ball. So that's what I'll do. I'm going to talk with Chowon tomorrow morning about quitting, and if she encourages me to keep pledging then I will. If she says I should quit then I will. I'll pray tonight that God gives me and her wisdom and brings the best decision to me from my conversation with her.

Well, it's 2AM-ish. I had a nap earlier, so I should be able to round tonight to about 8 hours of sleep if I go to bed now. I just wanted to get that out there.

"I've just been in a sing-y mood today"