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sniffnoyNo idea why I picked that subject.
Except you'll notice... that's right, I have a watch!
And I'm using it just like my last one. That is to say, I'm keeping it in my pocket. It's neat, it allows you to store two different "time zones" on there, so I can have it show EDT (or EST) normally, but by holding down button 2, I can have it show GMT! (Though if I hold it down too long, it switches to it permanently until I hold it down again to switch it back.)
The bad news is, hitting any of the buttons produces this really annoying beeping sound, and there's no way to turn it off, unfortunately. Also, I've already (yes already) damaged (?) one of the buttons. I've popped it off. The button still functions, but it won't stay on. I'm afraid it may fall off by itself sometime and fall into my pocket where I'll lose it forever.
So, let's see, what's happened in the past few days?
...hey, wait, I've only not posted since yesterday. Sheesh. That's what going without LJ (or rather LJ itself?) does to you, eh?
Well, anyway, I'm staying with my cousins up in Lexington. We're looking at colleges - yesterday was... I forget already. Um. Did we go anywhere yesterday? I hope not. Today was MIT and Harvard. We didn't go to the information session for MIT since we'd already gone to the one at the school. MIT's campus is kind of scary. I mean, the... which side is it? West? East? The classroom side is rather neat, since all the buildings are connected, but the sheer expanse of the other side... I mean, there are dorms that are practically 15 minutes away from the classroom side! (Not like I'm getting in anyway. :P ) As for Harvard... well, I'd talked to Eve before and I was going to sit in on her NonEuclidean Geometry class, at 16:00[0]. Well the info session was at 14:00, supposed to go to 15:00, it went till about 15:30. We had planned to leave the tour a bit early to get to the class, we ended up leaving it *very* early. Apparently we didn't miss much anyway.
The class... well thankfully it wasn't that hard to follow, or rather wouldn't have been if he had gone a bit slower. Of course the fact that I knew nothing[3] of Minkowskian geometry probably helped there too, but I was able to follow it generally anyway, since he was doing stuff that was analogous to theorems of Euclidean geometry. (Though I had no idea of what of the really basic stuff had been proven, which had me kind of lost at first.) Hehe, special relativity is all based on Minkowskian geometry a lot, so after he proved Minkowskian power of a point, he stopped to note the physicalsignificance meaning of it. Not "significance", because, of course, physically, it is completely insignificant. And that, I suppose, is the big difference between just straight Minkowskian geometry and actual special relativity. :D
Now that I've actually sitten[4] in on a class, I'm not sure what the point of doing so was. :P Oh yeah, though, I ran into Matt (Tai) from PROMYS, in that same class - he wasn't visiting, apparently they have some program where he can take it in high school. Speaking of which, I really need to find out about that thing Jae Bae's doing at Columbia...
I seem to have gotten Ethan hooked on Carcassonne. He seems to have just figured out that it really is important to place farmers. :)
Wow. I'm really surprised I had enough time to write this.
-Sniffnoy, who keeps trying to do select-and-middle-click even though he's on a Windows computer
[0]Man, I've really fallen out of the habit of using 24-hour time, haven't I?
[3]Well, I knew *something* about it, from the HMMT lecture freshman year (which apparently was by the same guy teaching this class).
[4]Yes, I know, the past participle of "sit" is "sat", but it *ought* to be "sitten"... (it just sounds cooler. :D )
--
"Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves
up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."
-Winston Churchill
Except you'll notice... that's right, I have a watch!
And I'm using it just like my last one. That is to say, I'm keeping it in my pocket. It's neat, it allows you to store two different "time zones" on there, so I can have it show EDT (or EST) normally, but by holding down button 2, I can have it show GMT! (Though if I hold it down too long, it switches to it permanently until I hold it down again to switch it back.)
The bad news is, hitting any of the buttons produces this really annoying beeping sound, and there's no way to turn it off, unfortunately. Also, I've already (yes already) damaged (?) one of the buttons. I've popped it off. The button still functions, but it won't stay on. I'm afraid it may fall off by itself sometime and fall into my pocket where I'll lose it forever.
So, let's see, what's happened in the past few days?
...hey, wait, I've only not posted since yesterday. Sheesh. That's what going without LJ (or rather LJ itself?) does to you, eh?
Well, anyway, I'm staying with my cousins up in Lexington. We're looking at colleges - yesterday was... I forget already. Um. Did we go anywhere yesterday? I hope not. Today was MIT and Harvard. We didn't go to the information session for MIT since we'd already gone to the one at the school. MIT's campus is kind of scary. I mean, the... which side is it? West? East? The classroom side is rather neat, since all the buildings are connected, but the sheer expanse of the other side... I mean, there are dorms that are practically 15 minutes away from the classroom side! (Not like I'm getting in anyway. :P ) As for Harvard... well, I'd talked to Eve before and I was going to sit in on her NonEuclidean Geometry class, at 16:00[0]. Well the info session was at 14:00, supposed to go to 15:00, it went till about 15:30. We had planned to leave the tour a bit early to get to the class, we ended up leaving it *very* early. Apparently we didn't miss much anyway.
The class... well thankfully it wasn't that hard to follow, or rather wouldn't have been if he had gone a bit slower. Of course the fact that I knew nothing[3] of Minkowskian geometry probably helped there too, but I was able to follow it generally anyway, since he was doing stuff that was analogous to theorems of Euclidean geometry. (Though I had no idea of what of the really basic stuff had been proven, which had me kind of lost at first.) Hehe, special relativity is all based on Minkowskian geometry a lot, so after he proved Minkowskian power of a point, he stopped to note the physical
Now that I've actually sitten[4] in on a class, I'm not sure what the point of doing so was. :P Oh yeah, though, I ran into Matt (Tai) from PROMYS, in that same class - he wasn't visiting, apparently they have some program where he can take it in high school. Speaking of which, I really need to find out about that thing Jae Bae's doing at Columbia...
I seem to have gotten Ethan hooked on Carcassonne. He seems to have just figured out that it really is important to place farmers. :)
Wow. I'm really surprised I had enough time to write this.
-Sniffnoy, who keeps trying to do select-and-middle-click even though he's on a Windows computer
[0]Man, I've really fallen out of the habit of using 24-hour time, haven't I?
[3]Well, I knew *something* about it, from the HMMT lecture freshman year (which apparently was by the same guy teaching this class).
[4]Yes, I know, the past participle of "sit" is "sat", but it *ought* to be "sitten"... (it just sounds cooler. :D )
--
"Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves
up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."
-Winston Churchill
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Date: 2004-04-13 05:59 pm (UTC)So what if I'm really totally unfamiliar with his work? :D (Although of course I know he invented Life - were there even any cellular automata before that? Did he invent cellular automata? And I know he came up with the surreal numbers, which are still incredibly neat even if I know next to nothing about them.)
Hehehe do you actually call him "The Conway"?
Um... just what class is this, anyway? :P
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Date: 2004-04-13 06:06 pm (UTC)Meh, I doubt it matters. He's apparently a pretty insane lecturer or something so you'd probably get a kick out of that... I'm not in the class obviously.
Class is Abstract Linear Algebra.
Yeah, so that's Thursday morning from 11am-12:30pm. If you wanted to go to my boyfriend (Brent)'s compsci class before that, that's 10-11am. I have molbio lecture from 8:30-10am and molbio lab in the afternoon from 1:30-4:30.
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Date: 2004-04-14 05:41 pm (UTC)(I think what I meant to type in the first place was "cool classes in the math department".)