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13 years ago
The craziness has died down a little bit and a lot has happened recently, so I figured I'd give some updates like I did last semester...
(Warning: this post contains personal information that you do not care about if you follow me strictly for stories.)
1.) I have yet again somehow scraped out another 4.0. I feel like a particular class I took this semester is probably the most difficult class in the curriculum, so that makes me feel somewhat hopeful for the future. Also recognized in some weird fellowship thing where I eat vegetable soup with librarians and chat with them about books concerning Cubans and African-Americans and African-American Cubans and get $2000/year.
2.) I have a definite research plan, and if I can figure out how to do multivariable minimizations in IDL and Perl, I should be able to present at a few research conferences in March or so. This might prove to be impossibly difficult, depending on platform/software limitations (gotta work with the dated code of NASA's SSP model), but we'll see.
3.) Santaday! Newtonday! I gave and received, and some notable mentions:
(a) Gradshteyn & Ryzhik. 1155 pages of table. Pure, genius, awesome table, with all the integrals and series expansions you'll ever need. It also functions as a weapon, pillow, and engineer-deterrent. And by virtue of being a nearly three-inch thick book, the Tome of Table adds +5 to scholarly appeal when equipped to your bookshelf.
(b) Kindle PaperWhite, which unsurprisingly, has encouraged me to read more. Currently chunking away at 11/22/63.
4.) I've had lots of ideas floating around in my head for stories recently, which all things considering, is unsurprising. It seems that when writing is detrimental to my GPA, sleep, or social life, I want to write; when I have nothing to do, I get lazy.
5.) I've considered setting up a Twitter for this identity, as well as a blog for my dabbling in physics, both for me (to immortalize things I've learned so that I don't forget them) and for others (for knowledge and amusement). I've learned some pretty interesting things and have a few rants to go on. I plan on looking into options sometime in the future for this and considering what kind of identity I should use. (The #1 concern at this point is if WordPress or some other similar software can use LaTeX input... if not, then, oh well.)
(Warning: this post contains personal information that you do not care about if you follow me strictly for stories.)
1.) I have yet again somehow scraped out another 4.0. I feel like a particular class I took this semester is probably the most difficult class in the curriculum, so that makes me feel somewhat hopeful for the future. Also recognized in some weird fellowship thing where I eat vegetable soup with librarians and chat with them about books concerning Cubans and African-Americans and African-American Cubans and get $2000/year.
2.) I have a definite research plan, and if I can figure out how to do multivariable minimizations in IDL and Perl, I should be able to present at a few research conferences in March or so. This might prove to be impossibly difficult, depending on platform/software limitations (gotta work with the dated code of NASA's SSP model), but we'll see.
3.) Santaday! Newtonday! I gave and received, and some notable mentions:
(a) Gradshteyn & Ryzhik. 1155 pages of table. Pure, genius, awesome table, with all the integrals and series expansions you'll ever need. It also functions as a weapon, pillow, and engineer-deterrent. And by virtue of being a nearly three-inch thick book, the Tome of Table adds +5 to scholarly appeal when equipped to your bookshelf.
(b) Kindle PaperWhite, which unsurprisingly, has encouraged me to read more. Currently chunking away at 11/22/63.
4.) I've had lots of ideas floating around in my head for stories recently, which all things considering, is unsurprising. It seems that when writing is detrimental to my GPA, sleep, or social life, I want to write; when I have nothing to do, I get lazy.
5.) I've considered setting up a Twitter for this identity, as well as a blog for my dabbling in physics, both for me (to immortalize things I've learned so that I don't forget them) and for others (for knowledge and amusement). I've learned some pretty interesting things and have a few rants to go on. I plan on looking into options sometime in the future for this and considering what kind of identity I should use. (The #1 concern at this point is if WordPress or some other similar software can use LaTeX input... if not, then, oh well.)
