Saket Vora

Go Wolfpack! Last night NC State played California (Berkeley) in the first round of the 2006 NCAA tournament. I hosted a bunch of friends at my apartment, and Naman and Sachi from UNC came over too. We ordered some pizza, had some snacks, and cheered on the Wolfpack and later Murray State, who was playing UNC. I’m glad to see that the NC State team that showed to play was the team that we saw in January, when we were playing good. Cameron Bennerman hit a three-pointer with 30 seconds left which proved to be the game winning basket. Sendak is using Cedric Simmons more and more under the basket and posting up which is great to see. Evtimov still doesn’t have the lift he used to have, and Engin Atsür hasn’t been producing enough. He can be a great shooter when he is on.

While Naman was here we also discussed a possible Senior Design project involving a field unit for detecting malaria in third-world countries. It is still at a very early stage ,and we are not even sure whether or not it’s possible.

My schedule for next semester is set:
ECE 511 - Analog Electronics (graduate level)
ECE 480 - Senior Design project (Engineering Entrepreneur’s Program)
PHI 340 - Philosophy of Science
FLN 101 - Beginning Hindi
PE 101 - Health and Wellness physical education

I’m already looking forward to it. It’s going to be fun.

I went to the gym this morning to shoot some basketball with Mike. He is a really great teacher. He has watched so much basketball and done a tremendous job coaching me and helping me improve my shot. With his help I have gotten a pretty decent three-point shot down, and there is one golden spot on the arc that I can snap a trey almost automatically now. I need to still work on it though.

Now I’ve got a lot of work to do. Not exactly thrilling, but it needs to get done. Tomorrow NC State plays Texas at 2:30, but I’ll probably be home to watch it.