Back in Berkeley
So... Welcome Week!
:O I'm falling under Durandal7777777's evil plan ;D to make me an EECS major! Malheureusement, I took Math 1B P/NP, so um, yeah. Hmph, I'm sure he wants me to see some real sturm und drang *some dramatic Wagner?* His projection is Linguistics -> CogSci (and Ling.) -> L&S CS -> EECS.
I think it would be storm and stress enough trying to get brilliant enough at linguistics (is that even possible?) to go to MIT (and spend ~6.7 years) for the Ph.D. (hey, it's faster than Cal's ~12 yrs.) and start a linguistics department at Caltech, which, being a small school, will not start new departments unless it's pretty sure that it'll be a world-renowned department. So yes, that means they have to think that I'm the next Chomsky or something of that magnitude. Right, so the chance that that'll happen is, ahem. Heh, that might afford me enough to live in San Marino (the SoCal San Marino, not the European one), though. The above is a possible scenario of the prof. option.
Option #2: Defense industry. Computational at, e.g., Lockheed or Northrop Grumman. Of course, this almost invariably also requires the same long-time-in-coming Ph.D. as the previous.
Option #3: The Langley option. Of course, if I were to take that one, I couldn't tell you.
Option #4: Something Silicon-Valley-related?
In other news, I might have a radically strange idea about two of the lexical classes (or "parts of speech" if you speak English) not being distinct after all. This ultimately came from my brother studying Precalc in Palm Desert last week and believing part of the book to be grammatically incorrect, whereupon I promptly told him it was not the adjective "less" but the... yes, what was that word? My guess was preposition. My dad guessed differently (@_@ probably from some mathematical logic thing). Traditionally, the phrase structure trees would look different, but in a certain sentence the two classes seem not to be so different structurally.
Looking forward to meeting some of the Crossroads freshmen at Ghirardelli and In-N-Out tonight.
Oh, by the way, I think I've given up on Sinifying all the titles of new Xanga entries: we'll see.
Yes, I must say, this whole entry was pretty random.
:O I'm falling under Durandal7777777's evil plan ;D to make me an EECS major! Malheureusement, I took Math 1B P/NP, so um, yeah. Hmph, I'm sure he wants me to see some real sturm und drang *some dramatic Wagner?* His projection is Linguistics -> CogSci (and Ling.) -> L&S CS -> EECS.
I think it would be storm and stress enough trying to get brilliant enough at linguistics (is that even possible?) to go to MIT (and spend ~6.7 years) for the Ph.D. (hey, it's faster than Cal's ~12 yrs.) and start a linguistics department at Caltech, which, being a small school, will not start new departments unless it's pretty sure that it'll be a world-renowned department. So yes, that means they have to think that I'm the next Chomsky or something of that magnitude. Right, so the chance that that'll happen is, ahem. Heh, that might afford me enough to live in San Marino (the SoCal San Marino, not the European one), though. The above is a possible scenario of the prof. option.
Option #2: Defense industry. Computational at, e.g., Lockheed or Northrop Grumman. Of course, this almost invariably also requires the same long-time-in-coming Ph.D. as the previous.
Option #3: The Langley option. Of course, if I were to take that one, I couldn't tell you.
Option #4: Something Silicon-Valley-related?
In other news, I might have a radically strange idea about two of the lexical classes (or "parts of speech" if you speak English) not being distinct after all. This ultimately came from my brother studying Precalc in Palm Desert last week and believing part of the book to be grammatically incorrect, whereupon I promptly told him it was not the adjective "less" but the... yes, what was that word? My guess was preposition. My dad guessed differently (@_@ probably from some mathematical logic thing). Traditionally, the phrase structure trees would look different, but in a certain sentence the two classes seem not to be so different structurally.
Looking forward to meeting some of the Crossroads freshmen at Ghirardelli and In-N-Out tonight.
Oh, by the way, I think I've given up on Sinifying all the titles of new Xanga entries: we'll see.
Yes, I must say, this whole entry was pretty random.