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| SundaySunday is nice, because its warm, happy, bright, and filled with math homework.
Sunday is happy because it actually is rather calm and beautiful. None of the hectic workload of the weekday, where you literally spend every waking moment cramming in the next homework assignment.
Weekday is so depressing. But fun too. Except labs write up.
The testing season has begin. You know, like the hunting season or the tornado season or the....yea.. that.
Physics followed by Chem then Bio...hey, that's all the science!
In physics we learn to take really fun wave functions and add them, subtract them, multiply them, then put them on a spring, then attach the spring to a block, then put another block on top of the first block, and...
In physics, I will dearly miss the frictionless incline, negligible air resistance, massless pulley, uniformly accelerating ropes, and point mass.
In chemistry we learn to take really fun wave functions and add them, subtract them, then put them in funny diagrams to try to explain why oxygen is paramagnetic, , whcih, even though it is a really cool vocabulary word, I already forgot what it meant.
So, I learn that wave function defines waves and the last two weeks of my life. :)
Back to work.
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| Random EntryHaven't logged onto Xanga for almost a month.
Realized that physics is actually really hard.
Hate spring constants
thinking that life is like a titration - you never get the weight % you want.
been unusually on top of things
right. like for long.
Hoping my laptop will come back from HP safe and sound.
Hoping I'll come back form the first rounds of midterm, safe and sound.
remembering that sleep is actually a really fun thing.
remember all those things I really wanted to do but never have time to,
read a good book. learn programming. play that game. watch those movies.
actually finding time to do a few of them.
Learning to turn every disappointment into something exciting,
Learning non-homogeneous second order ordinary differential equation.
Feeling like you are where you should be.
Doing FAFSA.
Cleaning your room. Once in a while.
Living in a perfectly insulated bubble.
Losing the ability to write complete sentence.
Learning the Greek Alphabets
Using half of them in one homework assignment.
homework assignments. lots of them.
changing light bulbs. Lots of them.
Tutoring little kids and not so little kids.
Occasionally really glad I took the job
sometime, not so glad.
making this looks like a really long entry, but really is not.
learning that having a calculator in your pocket is not nerdy.
its a necessity.
Fencing.
with pointy stuff.
Walking to Vons
Sushi randomly, just because.
not sleeping.
Scratch that. sleeping. say. now.
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| Today was the physics midterm. And I found out a fun thing.
=] I didn't get worse. Everyone else just got better.
Still hate gamma. Tau is better. Even Delta. Gamma is bad.
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| 24 Hours PlayI left a book in a computer lab two weeks ago.
Its still here. Two weeks later.
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The 24 Hours Play in a Claremont production in which a play is put together in 24 hours. A dozen playwrights gather at 9 p.m at night to write several plays in small groups. The scripts is finalized by 8 a.m the following morning. The play is rehearsed that morning and afternoon. Finally, the play is put on stage, at 9 p.m the same day.
I slept at 7 a.m in the morning yesterday. Spending 8 hours in an underground conference room with occassional moans of zombies (an ITR game was going on) is a new and novel experience I don't want to repeat too soon. The dawn of a new day is very pretty when the sky turn from gray to light in a matter of minutes. A new record for me. The fact that I am typing this entry up at 4 a.m in the morning now means that my sleeping schedule has shifted by some mysterious constant, and will most likely remain so for at least today.
I should take solace that so far I have only stay up ridiculously late for NON-acandemic reason.
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| ClassesOne of the most horrible things in life in eight o'clock in the morning chemistry class. The only compensation is that the teacher has no problem with my occasional (i.e. every other classes) sleep in, so I just go to his more fortunate 9:00 a.m section. The drawback about organic chemistry is that it requires reasoning, attention, and memorization, all very difficult in the morning, and all the reactions sound the same and eventually merge into some form of blob. Blob, sadly, will not be on the test, which is next week.
Humanities class is always a nice distraction from integrals and redox reaction. It is amusing to discover the never-mentioned-outloud but obvious nature of the humanities department here - that is, secondary, to just about everything. That by no means imply they have no work, simply that all the professors sort of resign themselves that most of their students will put the math midterm (last week) first.
Math is fascinating as always. I am always fascinated at how quickly Professor Benjamin can write as fast as he talks, legibility. The math aspect is less entertaining. It is always a grave cause for concern when he smile at you and say "watch! this is fun!" Be very wary of any mathematicians saying that. I have made tremendous improvement in that class. While back in high school I was quite adept at randomly filling up a page with derivations that may or may not be related to the solution, now I am practically an expert. Homework gets done, eventually. Calculus BC ends in four weeks and Linear Algebra beings then.
Off to food.
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