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Name: Y.
Birthday: 4/13/1985
Gender: Male
Interests: talking to squirrels and lobsters, listening to french people talk too quickly for me to understand
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Member Since:
11/27/2002
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| Intro to Linguistics
Intro to Object Oriented Programming
Critical Reading and Writing
Multivariable Calculus
Human Cognition
Algorithms and Data Structures
Discrete Mathematics
Syntax
Child Language Acquisition
Models of Computation
Linear Algebra
Semantics
Phonology
Software Engineering
Nineteenth Century Roots of Modern Science
Modern Architecture
Computational Cognitive Science
Intro to Computer Systems
Cryptography
Lexical Semantics
Computational Linguistics
History of the English Language
Artificial Intelligence
Contemporary Architecture
Formal Semantics
Information Theory
Studio Foundation
Guns and Graphics: The Detective Novel and Comic Book in the United States
Sounds and Symbols: Intro to Linguistic Anthropology
Seminar in Old English Literature
Independent Study (Jacobson)
done?
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| it's funny how you can't listen to old music without remembering where and when you used to listen to it. yay state dependent memory. i can't listen to bloc party without thinking about endless hours in the cit programming for cs32. ruined a perfectly good band, cs32. i'm trying to override that out right now while listening to their newer tracks.
i can't read hardboiled detective novels without laughing at how over the top the language is. which disrupts the noirish, cigarette smoke filled atmosphere i'm supposed to be feeling. but how are you supposed to react to a description like "he looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food." although i did like the following: "a Harvard boy. nice use of the subjunctive mood."
visit/interview at penn in a couple of weeks. nervous because, well, i need to charm the pants off some linguists. but probably even more nervous about having to stay with current grad students. because they're going to reflect what i'm going to be like, right? and seriously, the future does not bode well. i'm totally going to end up like one of these unicycle riding, wacked out bearded people. actually scratch the bearded part, i can't grow facial hair for shit. hope to hear from stanford soon, so at least i could do this in nice weather.
spending my last semester doing to following:
1. dinging up the common room door with the newly installed dart board.
2. retaking a course i took two years ago, but this time it's under the heading of an independent study, so it seems like i've made some progress.
3. taking a course where the syllabus includes not only four "pizza days" but a screening of "white chicks".
4. taking a course on comic books and detective novels.
5. learning old english, because i didn't stock up on enough useless skills in my first 7 semesters here.
crap i'm already halfway down the unicycle riding path, aren't i?
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| so i come home and find out that 1. my dad bought a machine so he can make his own yogurt, 2. my mom has somehow convinced my dad and uncles to wear bracelets with magnets and germanium in them which supposedly help you sleep better, 3. my luggage is stuck in newark for some reason and so i've been wearing the same pair of track pants since wednesday.
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| i'm making a wire sculpture of a wasp for studio art. i feel very manly handling the pliers. anyways the wire i bought is a bit thicker than i expected and won't cooperate. and then the wire got tangled in the dispenser. so to take my mind off that fact i decide to read the back of the packaging:
Warning: This product contains chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer, birth defects or other reproductive harm. Wash hands after handling.
oh great. as my suitemate zack put it, "no more jerking off after making art, shangy!"
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| i've discovered my new favorite word in the midst of studying for the GRE.
mer·e·tri·cious (m r  -trsh  s), adj.1. a. Attracting attention in a vulgar manner: meretricious ornamentation. See Synonyms at gaudy1. b. Plausible but false or insincere; specious: a meretricious argument. 2. Of or relating to prostitutes or prostitution: meretricious relationships.
it's so very versatile!
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