I won't let Facebook take me alive!
For a while there, I was checking Facebook daily, but I suppose two days in a row doesn't really count. Turns out there's a UW Euchre club group. I'm now an admin, even though I oh-so-rarely use Facebook. I've just never really been an admin before...
This past weekend wasn't as productive as it should have been. I'm at the point in the physics course where I have to learn stuff I didn't know in High School. Seeing as how the assignment is due Wednesday (tomorrow), and I need to scan the assignment on campus during the day, and I have euchre tonight, it looks like whatever I have finished up until this point is what I'll be submitting, which happens to be three of the six questions. The real killer part is that I won't get the assignment solutions back in time to study the assigned questions in time for the exam (on the 8th). Then I've got to work on Crypto before Thursday so I can ask questions after class to finish the assignment for Tuesday, and Graph Theory is due on Friday as well. Assignments sort of crept up on me; I never saw it coming.
I can't view my blog from the lab here, so you'll have to forgive me if I repeat anything. I found my gloves that I lost a while ago. Turns out they were sitting in this lab the whole time. Over the course of a week, no one stole them or threw them out or anything. Just goes to show how little this lab gets used I guess. Since I bought new ones, and Andrea loves them so much, I gave the old gloves to her She seems to have taken quite a liking to them.
I got some of my grad stuff out of the way, but I guess I still have a bit more to do. I requested my three reference letters. All I really need to do at this point is send in my applications and wait. To do that though, I need a statement of interest, and before I finish that, I want to know if I have a chance of doing the NSERC research program during the summer. To know more about that, I'm waiting for the NSERC person at LU to get off their ass and let me know if any of the math profs have research interests in graph theory.
My parents want me to apply at more places like Manitoba and UWO. I really don't care that much about grad studies though, so I'm only going to apply to LU and UW. If the both accept me, I'll proabably just go to LU for laziness reasons. That is, if there is a prof with graph theory roots who will supervise me. Sure, LU isn't nearly as prestigious, but the way I figure, once I get a real job, I'll never see Thunder Bay again. Might as well get some time in before I do that.
I'm really looking forward to playing Catan with Sheena! She told me she's been wanting to play board games but can't find anyone. Good to know there's someone to do that with at home. Maybe we'll play some poker too. Maybe I should invest in another game or two at J&J...Bang! might be a good addition to my collection. No one here would play it with me, but I could say that about nearly EVERY interest I have.
I'm not entirely looking forward to exams next month, but I guess I never really am. I'll have very little time to study for Physics on the 8th. I'll have to put lots of time into Linguistics on the 13th since I've missed so many classes. Graph Theory on the 15th shouldn't take so much time since I'd say I have a pretty good grasp of the course material. Crypto on the 18th will be gruesome, I'm sure, but if I can get some decent studying done without putting it off too long, I should bo ok. Of course, the fact that I can't use Nathalie as an aid on the final will probably set me back a few points.
My schedule for next term got a little better. I found out about a CO course being offered next term, Network Design. I dumped Coding Theory for it, and now my schedule will be Crypto, Network Flow, and Network Design from 11:30-1:30 on MWF. Of course Euchre will mean I still have to walk to campus four days a week, but I still vastly prefer this schedule for both its relevance to graph theory and compactness.
I think I'm going to have to go get a donut. I'm pretty hungry.
Listening to... Fugazi - Lockdown
Link of the moment... FINALLY got this in the mail!
This past weekend wasn't as productive as it should have been. I'm at the point in the physics course where I have to learn stuff I didn't know in High School. Seeing as how the assignment is due Wednesday (tomorrow), and I need to scan the assignment on campus during the day, and I have euchre tonight, it looks like whatever I have finished up until this point is what I'll be submitting, which happens to be three of the six questions. The real killer part is that I won't get the assignment solutions back in time to study the assigned questions in time for the exam (on the 8th). Then I've got to work on Crypto before Thursday so I can ask questions after class to finish the assignment for Tuesday, and Graph Theory is due on Friday as well. Assignments sort of crept up on me; I never saw it coming.
I can't view my blog from the lab here, so you'll have to forgive me if I repeat anything. I found my gloves that I lost a while ago. Turns out they were sitting in this lab the whole time. Over the course of a week, no one stole them or threw them out or anything. Just goes to show how little this lab gets used I guess. Since I bought new ones, and Andrea loves them so much, I gave the old gloves to her She seems to have taken quite a liking to them.
I got some of my grad stuff out of the way, but I guess I still have a bit more to do. I requested my three reference letters. All I really need to do at this point is send in my applications and wait. To do that though, I need a statement of interest, and before I finish that, I want to know if I have a chance of doing the NSERC research program during the summer. To know more about that, I'm waiting for the NSERC person at LU to get off their ass and let me know if any of the math profs have research interests in graph theory.
My parents want me to apply at more places like Manitoba and UWO. I really don't care that much about grad studies though, so I'm only going to apply to LU and UW. If the both accept me, I'll proabably just go to LU for laziness reasons. That is, if there is a prof with graph theory roots who will supervise me. Sure, LU isn't nearly as prestigious, but the way I figure, once I get a real job, I'll never see Thunder Bay again. Might as well get some time in before I do that.
I'm really looking forward to playing Catan with Sheena! She told me she's been wanting to play board games but can't find anyone. Good to know there's someone to do that with at home. Maybe we'll play some poker too. Maybe I should invest in another game or two at J&J...Bang! might be a good addition to my collection. No one here would play it with me, but I could say that about nearly EVERY interest I have.
I'm not entirely looking forward to exams next month, but I guess I never really am. I'll have very little time to study for Physics on the 8th. I'll have to put lots of time into Linguistics on the 13th since I've missed so many classes. Graph Theory on the 15th shouldn't take so much time since I'd say I have a pretty good grasp of the course material. Crypto on the 18th will be gruesome, I'm sure, but if I can get some decent studying done without putting it off too long, I should bo ok. Of course, the fact that I can't use Nathalie as an aid on the final will probably set me back a few points.
My schedule for next term got a little better. I found out about a CO course being offered next term, Network Design. I dumped Coding Theory for it, and now my schedule will be Crypto, Network Flow, and Network Design from 11:30-1:30 on MWF. Of course Euchre will mean I still have to walk to campus four days a week, but I still vastly prefer this schedule for both its relevance to graph theory and compactness.
I think I'm going to have to go get a donut. I'm pretty hungry.
Listening to... Fugazi - Lockdown
Link of the moment... FINALLY got this in the mail!
Labels: bang, facebook, grad studies, settlers of catan, sheena
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And how are you liking the greatest Mario Kart game ever made? Email me your friend code, and maybe we'll stumble across each other online some day.
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Paul, at 11/28/2006 1:44 PM
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