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classes For my first semester Last semester I only took one class And was able to balance it fairly well It still was a mess sometimes But this semester we're bumping up to two So today is the first day of classes As of like midnight eastern last night Or whatever The professors for my classes Actually released syllabuses And the schedules And the first round of assignments And everything So I got up as soon as I could To check all that out And try to get as ahead as I possibly can I know in some of my private days I had a lot of questions about The program that I've been doing Which is Georgia Tech's Online Masters and Curious Science Program And you guys were interested in me Keeping you up to date on You know how that's going What classes I'm taking So I thought it would be a fun video idea To take you guys along for my first day Get some honest reactions to What I think of the classes And how much work I think it's going to be this semester After reading the syllabuses So let's get 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markets Indicators Sharp ratio Things like that And then the last part Is actually applying the data science And machine learning techniques Like it looks like You know Decision trees, regressions Things like that To financial data The class has eight Significant projects Which are you know Coding based problem sets With reports And then um Two exams And midterm and a final So it doesn't look too terrible I took a peek at the first assignment And you know It'll definitely be good To get my hands dirty And start coding again Because it's been a month or two The second class that I'm taking I'm actually really excited for It's called video game design Which wasn't the class that I originally Had intended to sign up for I have absolutely zero Experience doing video games Other than basic like Command line games And python or something That you learn when you First start coding I actually had to sign up for it Because the other class I was looking at was full And since I'm not far enough In the program yet I don't have a super great Priority when it comes To choosing classes But nevertheless I never thought I would be Taking a class like this And I'm super excited for it So it looks like the class uses A very popular Unity game engine I've never worked with Unity The scripts are written in C sharp Which I have a little bit Of experience with When I taught myself ASP.net A couple years ago But haven't used it For video game design And have no idea How to work with the game engine So that should be interesting But the class has broken up Into two parts The first part Being working through They call them milestones So it's like five different Little mini projects That teach you different things About the Unity game engine You know like physics Animation That sort of thing And then the second part Is actually a group project Where I have to find Four other people Form a team And we spend The rest of the semester Building a game There's no exams There's just two small quizzes And those milestones So it looks like most of the work That goes into this class Is going to be putting that game together Because it looks like There's a lot of requirements for it So I'm going in completely blind Don't know Unity Don't know game engines But I'm excited I'm excited to kind of dip My toes in the water For something completely new And with that It's now 7.15 So I should really be getting to work I know I don't talk about my job A ton on this channel To be honest I don't know if it's just something That I'm ready to talk about yet But for any of you that are Interested in serving Or my path through ROTC And commission and all that I'd love to answer your questions And maybe potentially make some videos About that at some point So let me know in the comments Or shoot me a DM If you're interested in that With that I will catch you guys When I get back So next up I'm actually headed to a little Sunset picnic on the beach To celebrate a friend's birthday And probably have a bonfire afterwards But I got to get this camera Off the tripod And pack up all my other camera gear Because I think we're going to take Some sunset pics I'm going to try to put the drone up That'd be pretty cool But it's also really obnoxious So we'll see