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Thursday, May 27, 2010
! blondegeek store closed for summer !
I'll be traveling quite a bit this summer and my stock is all in Boston, so I won't be able to send orders in a very timely manner. I will be "closing" (setting all my stock to zero so nothing can be purchased) the store for the season, but will re-open in the fall. Of course, you should still stop by and check out my blog to see what I'm up to! :)
- Tess
- Tess
Microwave Popcorn Smoke Signals
It always takes a few days for me to realize that the semester has ended and that I don't have any p-sets or work that I HAVE to do. It is a difficult transition but I'm doing my best to adjust :)
As far as plans for the summer, I'll be spending the first few weeks at home, hanging out with friends, visiting family, and *hopefully* cleaning my rooms (crossing my fingers on this one). Second part of summer I'll be at Fermilab near Chicago working on a MicroBooNE, a neutrino experiment! Lastly I'll probably finish up the summer traveling around Europe a bit. Not too shabby, if you ask me :)
I've got a few side projects of course (besides cleaning my rooms). Mainly, I really want to take some time to learn how to properly use AutoCAD (the 2D kind and Inventor) and Rhino. I also need to sit down get some C++ into this blonde nogin of mine. To be honest I think those are enough projects to keep me busy most of the summer. We'll see how far I get.
Current weather in Berkeley is 13 degrees Celsius with a most definite chance of sprinkles. I'm off to the Exploratorium!
As far as plans for the summer, I'll be spending the first few weeks at home, hanging out with friends, visiting family, and *hopefully* cleaning my rooms (crossing my fingers on this one). Second part of summer I'll be at Fermilab near Chicago working on a MicroBooNE, a neutrino experiment! Lastly I'll probably finish up the summer traveling around Europe a bit. Not too shabby, if you ask me :)
I've got a few side projects of course (besides cleaning my rooms). Mainly, I really want to take some time to learn how to properly use AutoCAD (the 2D kind and Inventor) and Rhino. I also need to sit down get some C++ into this blonde nogin of mine. To be honest I think those are enough projects to keep me busy most of the summer. We'll see how far I get.
Current weather in Berkeley is 13 degrees Celsius with a most definite chance of sprinkles. I'm off to the Exploratorium!
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Tuesday, May 18, 2010
I promise I'm not ignoring you...
it's just that FINALS ARE HERE. I'll get back to you about my adventures of spackling, tea, boxes, adiabatically changing a's and b's, etc. in a few days.
Labels: 18.06, 8.04, 8.044, exciting times, MIT, superposition
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Tuesday, May 04, 2010
Something punny...
Two students are working at two adjacent computers in the Athena cluster in building 12. One of the students, currently taking 8.04, is enjoying a cup of soup from Cafe Four.
The hungry, soupless student turns to the student with the cup of soup and says, "You know you're not suppose to have that in here. The sign on the wall clearly says 'No Food. No Drinks.'"
The student with the soup briefly ponders this and replies. "You know, soup's a funny thing. It's not food and it not a drink."
The other student retorts "That's because it's both."
"No," the semi-soup-saturated student says "it's definitely not both."
"Then what is it?" asks the other student.
"It's a Soup-erposition."
The other student rolls his eyes and continues trudging along on some p-set, while the 8.04 acolyte's wavefunction was observed to be in a souply satisfied eigenstate.
The hungry, soupless student turns to the student with the cup of soup and says, "You know you're not suppose to have that in here. The sign on the wall clearly says 'No Food. No Drinks.'"
The student with the soup briefly ponders this and replies. "You know, soup's a funny thing. It's not food and it not a drink."
The other student retorts "That's because it's both."
"No," the semi-soup-saturated student says "it's definitely not both."
"Then what is it?" asks the other student.
"It's a Soup-erposition."
The other student rolls his eyes and continues trudging along on some p-set, while the 8.04 acolyte's wavefunction was observed to be in a souply satisfied eigenstate.
Labels: 8.04, MIT, physics, procrastination of homework, yay
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Saturday, May 01, 2010
Russian Soaps and Non-Russian Soup.
There are a spectrum of careers (and perhaps career titles) that appeal to me. On one side is Architect and on the other is Physicist. (There also Rock Star somewhere orthogonal to this 1D spectrum, but we'll talk about that some other time when I have more time to cuddle with my guitar.)
I'm not sure which part of the spectrum I'm at right now, but majoring in architecture is looking pretty good. Actually, doubling in architecture is looking pretty good. (Don't worry physics I won't leave you.)
In other words, I haven't started on my Physics homework yet because I've been looking at Architecture classes. (Fall '10 Schedule came out last week)
(I think I need to read up on how to appropriately use parenthesis. I know I'm not doing it right, but hell it works with math.)
As of now, I have ppllllleeennnnttyyyy of room to do a minor in Architecture (6 classes) but the 4-B major (some different spiffy customizable version of the regualar minor) is 13 classes, which includes a thesis. That would make senior year painful. I also don't have space for 5 of those classes. That screams to me, TAKE AN EXTRA SEMESTER.
I don't see how I could do it otherwise (and stay sane with a decent gpa), but understandably I'm a little reluctant to stick around.
Okay, back to watching Bednaya Nastya (Бедная Настя) for Russian class. Gotta prep for my final for it on Wednesday and finish my soup. (It's Italian wedding soup in case you are curious.)
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I'm not sure which part of the spectrum I'm at right now, but majoring in architecture is looking pretty good. Actually, doubling in architecture is looking pretty good. (Don't worry physics I won't leave you.)
In other words, I haven't started on my Physics homework yet because I've been looking at Architecture classes. (Fall '10 Schedule came out last week)
(I think I need to read up on how to appropriately use parenthesis. I know I'm not doing it right, but hell it works with math.)
As of now, I have ppllllleeennnnttyyyy of room to do a minor in Architecture (6 classes) but the 4-B major (some different spiffy customizable version of the regualar minor) is 13 classes, which includes a thesis. That would make senior year painful. I also don't have space for 5 of those classes. That screams to me, TAKE AN EXTRA SEMESTER.
I don't see how I could do it otherwise (and stay sane with a decent gpa), but understandably I'm a little reluctant to stick around.
Okay, back to watching Bednaya Nastya (Бедная Настя) for Russian class. Gotta prep for my final for it on Wednesday and finish my soup. (It's Italian wedding soup in case you are curious.)
Labels: architecture, procrastination of homework
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