California Dreamin'
Hahaha, that is, right after exams are done. They start tommorrow. Ahaha... *gulp*
Well, now that I'm all smiles and laughs I might as well do a proper update. It's been a while. I've been a good boy and avoided LJ for quite some time.
SO the descision has been made and mailed and I'm going to Stanford. Wish I could say I was happier, but it really was a difficult descision, and MIT really had a bright place in my heart. I'm still thinking of going there for grad school.
Long story short: Stanford seemed like a place where I would be happier. The people at MIT were AMAZING, but it isn't the environment I need right now. I need to broaden my scope of academics, not focus. I think I'll do that better at Stanford. To say nothing of the weather and the west-cast-ness of the people. So friendly!
Now, of course, I should start studying for exams. Heehee, yeah, I've been kinda naughty in that respect.
But wait! I had to go to the Chemathon (well, I went anyways), and I needed to make a poster for it, so that swallowed two days. Monica and I made our respective posters and I didn't leave her house till 4:00AM on Saturday morning, the morning of the Chemathon. Of course, since the judges at the Chemathon are shitheads, ours didn't even get mentioned at the award ceremonies. And I'm not just complaining cause they weren't up there, I'm complaining because of what was up there. Not that I'm not biased, but the posters up there were just craptastic pieces of shit. I'm not going to go into detail on what our posters looked like, but Monica's and mine were clearly much better quality than the middle school jobs that were up there. And the content was well-researched and there was, quite frankly, MORE content on ours than on most of the others, which had maybe three paragraphs of stuff on it max. Overall, Chemathon was fun, but I wouldn't do it again. Kind of your classic fastest-calculator, fastest-instant-recall-person-takes-all type of deal. There are people who prepared for this for the whole year and I found that to be sad. Balancing equations as quickly as possible? Finding how many moles of X is in Y given that A, B, C and D? For a whole year. That's like memorizing words for a spelling bee... for a whole year.
OH! And something else. There's going to be a Singularity Summit taking place at Stanford soon. Despite exams, mom got me a plane ticket back for a couple of days to attend as my graduation gift. (eek!.. and to clarify, I won't be missing any exams, it happens to occurr when I have a break from them.) Ray Kurzweil will be the keynote speaker, along with I don't know how many other top-of-their-fields people who will give their side of the story concerning the Singularity. I'm very, very excited. It's likely a lot of it will be over my head, but I'm counting on tht a lot of it won't be. I could also be meeting future professors of mine, to say nothing of future employers, and even narrow down the actual field of study I want to go into depending on what I hear there.
And that's pretty much what's up with me.
I'm going out to rent my prom suit tommorrow to not repeat the same mistake as last time and wait till the last minute.
And as for prom dates... hm.
Well, now that I'm all smiles and laughs I might as well do a proper update. It's been a while. I've been a good boy and avoided LJ for quite some time.
SO the descision has been made and mailed and I'm going to Stanford. Wish I could say I was happier, but it really was a difficult descision, and MIT really had a bright place in my heart. I'm still thinking of going there for grad school.
Long story short: Stanford seemed like a place where I would be happier. The people at MIT were AMAZING, but it isn't the environment I need right now. I need to broaden my scope of academics, not focus. I think I'll do that better at Stanford. To say nothing of the weather and the west-cast-ness of the people. So friendly!
Now, of course, I should start studying for exams. Heehee, yeah, I've been kinda naughty in that respect.
But wait! I had to go to the Chemathon (well, I went anyways), and I needed to make a poster for it, so that swallowed two days. Monica and I made our respective posters and I didn't leave her house till 4:00AM on Saturday morning, the morning of the Chemathon. Of course, since the judges at the Chemathon are shitheads, ours didn't even get mentioned at the award ceremonies. And I'm not just complaining cause they weren't up there, I'm complaining because of what was up there. Not that I'm not biased, but the posters up there were just craptastic pieces of shit. I'm not going to go into detail on what our posters looked like, but Monica's and mine were clearly much better quality than the middle school jobs that were up there. And the content was well-researched and there was, quite frankly, MORE content on ours than on most of the others, which had maybe three paragraphs of stuff on it max. Overall, Chemathon was fun, but I wouldn't do it again. Kind of your classic fastest-calculator, fastest-instant-recall-person-takes-all type of deal. There are people who prepared for this for the whole year and I found that to be sad. Balancing equations as quickly as possible? Finding how many moles of X is in Y given that A, B, C and D? For a whole year. That's like memorizing words for a spelling bee... for a whole year.
OH! And something else. There's going to be a Singularity Summit taking place at Stanford soon. Despite exams, mom got me a plane ticket back for a couple of days to attend as my graduation gift. (eek!.. and to clarify, I won't be missing any exams, it happens to occurr when I have a break from them.) Ray Kurzweil will be the keynote speaker, along with I don't know how many other top-of-their-fields people who will give their side of the story concerning the Singularity. I'm very, very excited. It's likely a lot of it will be over my head, but I'm counting on tht a lot of it won't be. I could also be meeting future professors of mine, to say nothing of future employers, and even narrow down the actual field of study I want to go into depending on what I hear there.
And that's pretty much what's up with me.
I'm going out to rent my prom suit tommorrow to not repeat the same mistake as last time and wait till the last minute.
And as for prom dates... hm.