Interests.

Studying for finals made me think about the subjects I still find particularly interesting. I used to be one of those who wanted to take classes because "EVERYTHING is interesting!"... and then life happened. Well, let's see.

Computer science - artificial intelligence, computability+complexity, programming languages, operating systems, algorithms, networks. basically all the classes I took/am going to take at Berkeley minus networks. some aspects of architecture, but less in the actual design (after CS150 I'm fine with just taking it for granted) and more in how it affects the way I code.

also on a more high level end, looking more into website development, past the html/css stuff. learning how the stuff I learned in cs fits into it was pretty great - seeing programming language conventions come up when making websites (databases, javascript/php/mysql, ruby on rails, server/client interactions) gets me pretty excited.

if I go to grad school in the future - machine learning? more advanced ai stuff? probably. I have a hard time picturing what I'd find interesting past undergrad level, strangely... although it's partly biased by me being not so much into research. Ultimately I just want to learn to be a better programmer.

Electrical Engineering (the other half of my major) - signal processing, systems - if I had time I'd look more into feedback control systems and dynamical systems.

Bio - NEUROSCIENCE! mainly. and stuff related to it, like cognitive neuroscience (which is a psych topic, but whatever). Brains are cool.

Languages - Japanese currently. Indonesian in the future. I actually wouldn't mind brushing up on Spanish, although I still feel aversive to it in the classroom... it's so much better in real life. And then maybe Chinese. Might look more into linguistics.

Math - intending to actually learn the stuff in my linear algebra and probability textbooks over break. I regret dropping those classes, even though I had no time for them... sometimes I kinda wished I dropped a cs class I wasn't as interested in instead. But past those... abstract algebra and stochastic processes?

English - I just like reading novels. mostly early 20th century stuff, American/English with a bit of Slavic and hopefully more Japanese in the future. Looking into more short stories also. Right now, H. P. Lovecraft.

History - haven't actually studied it since high school, but my range of nonfiction reading would history related. main focus on Biblical (Kingdom of Israel through first century Christianity), Greeks, Romans, Chinese, Russian, Japanese, and 20th century American (in the past it was more pioneer/gold rush/Civil War).

Film - Old movies. Lots of stuff to watch from the They Shoot Pictures list still. Kinda tend to side with the film critics(read: if they say it's good, it's probably good), and I like reading film analyses a lot. And anything with Jimmy Stewart. Thinking about auditing Film 50 sometimes depending on what they show next semester.

Religion - Perspectives has helped here. Christianity obviously, but within it I find Orthodox pretty interesting. Islam, Buddhism, next semester Hinduism?

Ok, so this does seem like a lot still. But it used to be a lot bigger. I guess it's more about finding depth within each topic... and I can't really eliminate an entire category from these left.

And my non-academic interests...

Video Games!: In the past this was mainly JRPGS(Chrono, FF, KH), but more recently shifted to adventure games (The Longest Journey, Tex Murphy, Day of the Tentacle, Grim Fandango, Ace Attorney, Broken Sword, Monkey Island, Sam and Max... the classics) with a bit of WRPG(Planescape, possibly Mass Effect), and random stuff that gets popular during Steam/GoG sales (Evil Genius, Left4Dead). Looking to more indie stuff also (Fedora Spade, Immortal Defense...).

As far as JRPGs go, right now it's Tales. and Mother 3. I'm kinda losing the patience to play them now and they're pretty big time sinks, moreso than the other stuff I play now.

But more seriously - game criticism. Development. Design. Story-telling, art and aesthetics. I like reading articles on this kind of stuff.

Manga - Mainly seinen stuff + One Piece. Looking for more stuff that'd be comparable to literature for books - which tends to lead to the more obscure titles in manga.

Tennis - I haven't played in ages, but I am craving it one of these days.

Swing - Next semester...