i think my page layout should be fixed now. sorry to all of you who use internet explorer, it was looking pretty messed up to you guys for awhile.
i just got done with my e-science test. it went ok. somehow our teacher always manages to write tests that throw me for a loop and aren't what i expect at all. i just don't take his tests very well. but i felt like i actually knew my stuff this time, so hopefully i did well. i was able to at least pretend that i knew what i was doing on all the problems...
school is winding down (in theory). the problem with dead week for me is not that everything is due, it's that i've got a couple extra things to do, but still the regular homework load. i only have one class where the regular homework isn't due. that leaves three assignments, each taking around 3 to 4 hours to do, if i'm focused. that's where all my time goes, and i'm not sure where i'm going to magically produce more time to do projects and study for my finals this week, but i'm sure it will happen. it always does somehow.
summer begins in about 13 days. so far, it's looking like:
may: home
june: china
july: norman, taking classes or maybe working, depending on if i can find a second class to take
august: 2 weeks in colorado/grand canyon with the fam, then home for a bit, then back to norman
crazy how when you break it into sections like that, it seems so short.
one last thing. i know i'm a nerd, but i found this really funny. especially the fact that they actually tried to submit some of the papers to a conference. i think MIT people are a lot more interesting than i've ever given them credit for...
Friday, April 29, 2005
Friday, April 15, 2005
The ink is black, the page is white
"If you are conscious to yourself that you possess more knowledge upon some subjects than others of your standing, reflect that you have had greater opportunities of seeing the world and obtaining knowledge of mankind than any of your contemporaries. That you have never wanted a book, but it has been supplied to you. That your whole time has been spent in the company of men of literature and science. How unpardonable would it have been in you to have turned out a blockhead."
-Abigail Adams to her son John Quincy
-Abigail Adams to her son John Quincy
Tuesday, April 12, 2005
three posts!!
ok, ok. i know three posts in one day is absolutely ridiculous, even if there was a night of sleep in between them, but i just had to share something i just figured out.
i just found out that i have access to the entire ou web directory on the server, including, but not limited to, the ou study abroad page which i hate with a passion. i was supposed to have access to one directory, but when i went up a directory and voila, everything was there and most of them weren't separately password protected. i think that this means there is a minor flaw in the system and i'm not sure who should be taking care of that. anyhow, this means that i have amazing capacity for vandalism here. i'm way too responsible for that and, among other things, it would most likely get me fired. that's a bummer, because there are some pretty bad web pages out there for this university...
i just found out that i have access to the entire ou web directory on the server, including, but not limited to, the ou study abroad page which i hate with a passion. i was supposed to have access to one directory, but when i went up a directory and voila, everything was there and most of them weren't separately password protected. i think that this means there is a minor flaw in the system and i'm not sure who should be taking care of that. anyhow, this means that i have amazing capacity for vandalism here. i'm way too responsible for that and, among other things, it would most likely get me fired. that's a bummer, because there are some pretty bad web pages out there for this university...
fire alarms
grr...fire alarms at 2:30 in the morning really not cool. i think i am skipping e-science in the morning.
He is calling you "DUDE!"
since i hate making up titles for my posts i think i'm just going to use song lyrics that strike my fancy when i can't think of an appropriate title. it will be left as an optional exercise for the reader to figure out which song it is...
i have to say, right now, i feel great. i really do, i didn't just throw that in there for the link. had three tests last week and a project due last night (sunday) at midnight. it just feels so good to have that done. plus i've been doing "fun" reading a lot recently. i need to keep making time for that in my schedule. it just relaxes me so much, reminds me that the real world is not made up of circuits, and-or gates or exception handling. thank goodness. it's kind of strange, because all the fun reading i did in high school was all fiction. and not generally great fiction at that. it wasn't trashy or anything, just not classic i suppose. all of a sudden these days i'm just much more interested in reading non-fiction. maybe i feel like it's more applicable to real life, which would imply that i actually care about real-life application now...that's cool.
played basketball at the huff tonight. it was a lot of fun. i should do that more often. should also learn how to shoot a basketball while i'm at it. that would be really cool.
went to the meeting for rhodes/marshall scholarship stuff today. i kind of have mixed feelings about it. obviously to get one of those scholarships would be absolutely amazing, but a lot of me says it's just not worth all the work for something i probably wouldn't win. because in all honesty, i'm really not that spectacular of a candidate. i have good grades and i'm a minority in my major, but that's about it. i don't really have any lofty career goals, and i'm definitely not pursuing the connections i'd need to get some sort of nifty job like that. i'm not really involved on campus because most of my time is spent either doing homework or hanging out with my friends so i can remain sane enough to do more homework. i know that i need to be more involved on campus, but at this point it seems like a major reason would be resume-building, which i really detest the concept of. on the other hand though, i think pursuing some of those type things would make me a better person in the end. there's a reason being involved in things is viewed a good thing. plus, i think the amount of thought i'd have to put into writing a personal statement would be good for me. i think it would really help me to think through what i really want to get out of my college experience and what i want to do with my life. to have to justify that to someone else would definitely demand good reasons for what i'm doing. is it worth it just for that experience. to be able to say i did it? maybe i will, after all, i did miss out on all the "i got accepted to harvard (yale, princeton, stanford etc.)" hype in high school. i was just waiting for the, "hey, ou let me apply for the rhodes scholarship" in college.
by the way, that last paragraph was essentially irrelevant at this point considering you don't apply for those scholarships until your senior year, which at this point is at least a year and a half away and at this point is looking more and more like it will be 2 and a half years. "do it in 5" take that, honors college. good night everone.
i have to say, right now, i feel great. i really do, i didn't just throw that in there for the link. had three tests last week and a project due last night (sunday) at midnight. it just feels so good to have that done. plus i've been doing "fun" reading a lot recently. i need to keep making time for that in my schedule. it just relaxes me so much, reminds me that the real world is not made up of circuits, and-or gates or exception handling. thank goodness. it's kind of strange, because all the fun reading i did in high school was all fiction. and not generally great fiction at that. it wasn't trashy or anything, just not classic i suppose. all of a sudden these days i'm just much more interested in reading non-fiction. maybe i feel like it's more applicable to real life, which would imply that i actually care about real-life application now...that's cool.
played basketball at the huff tonight. it was a lot of fun. i should do that more often. should also learn how to shoot a basketball while i'm at it. that would be really cool.
went to the meeting for rhodes/marshall scholarship stuff today. i kind of have mixed feelings about it. obviously to get one of those scholarships would be absolutely amazing, but a lot of me says it's just not worth all the work for something i probably wouldn't win. because in all honesty, i'm really not that spectacular of a candidate. i have good grades and i'm a minority in my major, but that's about it. i don't really have any lofty career goals, and i'm definitely not pursuing the connections i'd need to get some sort of nifty job like that. i'm not really involved on campus because most of my time is spent either doing homework or hanging out with my friends so i can remain sane enough to do more homework. i know that i need to be more involved on campus, but at this point it seems like a major reason would be resume-building, which i really detest the concept of. on the other hand though, i think pursuing some of those type things would make me a better person in the end. there's a reason being involved in things is viewed a good thing. plus, i think the amount of thought i'd have to put into writing a personal statement would be good for me. i think it would really help me to think through what i really want to get out of my college experience and what i want to do with my life. to have to justify that to someone else would definitely demand good reasons for what i'm doing. is it worth it just for that experience. to be able to say i did it? maybe i will, after all, i did miss out on all the "i got accepted to harvard (yale, princeton, stanford etc.)" hype in high school. i was just waiting for the, "hey, ou let me apply for the rhodes scholarship" in college.
by the way, that last paragraph was essentially irrelevant at this point considering you don't apply for those scholarships until your senior year, which at this point is at least a year and a half away and at this point is looking more and more like it will be 2 and a half years. "do it in 5" take that, honors college. good night everone.
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