I should play the lottery
I have surprisingly good luck at them, it's crazy.
So far, I think I have gotten my first choice on every lotter-based selection I have done.
All four years of TiP I've gotten my first choice course.
I got my first choice IRP for YSP last year.
I got my first choice dorm for next year.
And now, I also got my first choice HASS-D course: 24.900 Introduction to Linguistics :). Swheat.
Dude! I just looked it up on MIT's site. 24.900 is located in the Stata Center! That's exciting.
It's Tuesday and Thursdays, 9:30-11, though. Kind early =/ But I guess it's not too bad...better than high school, at least, assuming this is my earliest class.
....dude, this sucks. It looks like 3/4 of my classes are at the same time. 24.900, 8.012, and 6.001 all conflict. No idea what I'm going to do, now >_<. I guess there's no point in stressing over it now, though. Might as well wait till I talk to my advisor. Hopefully things work out somehow.
Today was a pretty nice day, though. Last day at Mathnasium; Corinne and I finished her online Algebra 2 course. It went really well and her mom got us both really good "Cookies 'n' Cream" Italian ices when she picked Corinne up. Yumm. I then got a hair cut that went pretty well, although I probably should have asked for it a little shorter, since I'll need another one before long. Oh well. Then went to Moon Thai with Jen L, AJ, Alex G., Ken, and Meagan. The food was good. And Alex made my day when she picked up the bill for everyone. I am now eternally grateful. I should go out to dinner with her more often. We all then went back to my house and played Wii for a bit. Today was fun.
Except for the getting up early part. 9:00 is too early to be awake, if you ask me. However, I managed. And I also managed to drive to FAU. I finally finished what I was doing. Basically, we had a bunch of data about a binary black hole system (two black holes orbiting each other and eventually colliding). A long time ago, a program was written to model all of the data into a little movie, using the program OpenDX. However, all of the data was compiled and the instructions for OpenDX to use were written using Fortran. Dr. Marronetti (the prof I worked with) wanted me to make/edit actual OpenDX code to read the original data (before it was all compiled together) so that it can read and model one time step at a time, using the OpenDX language. I'm not entirely sure of why it needed to be like this, but Dr. Marronetti said it was important that they read the data from the original set directly. It was a really good experience, though, and Dr. Marronetti taught me things that will be useful for doing research in physics later on. Definitely helpful. Unfortunately, though, by the time I finally got it done, he had disappeared. I waited around about 20 minutes to tell him that I finished and say goodbye to him (since I won't be going back), but he never showed up and I ended up leaving because I had to get home, eat lunch, and head to Mathnasium. I ended up emailing him the file I finished and said goodbye and thank you in the email. Although it would have been nicer to do so in person. Oh well.
Anyway, I am incredibly tired and it is 3. Crap. Night.
So far, I think I have gotten my first choice on every lotter-based selection I have done.
All four years of TiP I've gotten my first choice course.
I got my first choice IRP for YSP last year.
I got my first choice dorm for next year.
And now, I also got my first choice HASS-D course: 24.900 Introduction to Linguistics :). Swheat.
Dude! I just looked it up on MIT's site. 24.900 is located in the Stata Center! That's exciting.
It's Tuesday and Thursdays, 9:30-11, though. Kind early =/ But I guess it's not too bad...better than high school, at least, assuming this is my earliest class.
....dude, this sucks. It looks like 3/4 of my classes are at the same time. 24.900, 8.012, and 6.001 all conflict. No idea what I'm going to do, now >_<. I guess there's no point in stressing over it now, though. Might as well wait till I talk to my advisor. Hopefully things work out somehow.
Today was a pretty nice day, though. Last day at Mathnasium; Corinne and I finished her online Algebra 2 course. It went really well and her mom got us both really good "Cookies 'n' Cream" Italian ices when she picked Corinne up. Yumm. I then got a hair cut that went pretty well, although I probably should have asked for it a little shorter, since I'll need another one before long. Oh well. Then went to Moon Thai with Jen L, AJ, Alex G., Ken, and Meagan. The food was good. And Alex made my day when she picked up the bill for everyone. I am now eternally grateful. I should go out to dinner with her more often. We all then went back to my house and played Wii for a bit. Today was fun.
Except for the getting up early part. 9:00 is too early to be awake, if you ask me. However, I managed. And I also managed to drive to FAU. I finally finished what I was doing. Basically, we had a bunch of data about a binary black hole system (two black holes orbiting each other and eventually colliding). A long time ago, a program was written to model all of the data into a little movie, using the program OpenDX. However, all of the data was compiled and the instructions for OpenDX to use were written using Fortran. Dr. Marronetti (the prof I worked with) wanted me to make/edit actual OpenDX code to read the original data (before it was all compiled together) so that it can read and model one time step at a time, using the OpenDX language. I'm not entirely sure of why it needed to be like this, but Dr. Marronetti said it was important that they read the data from the original set directly. It was a really good experience, though, and Dr. Marronetti taught me things that will be useful for doing research in physics later on. Definitely helpful. Unfortunately, though, by the time I finally got it done, he had disappeared. I waited around about 20 minutes to tell him that I finished and say goodbye to him (since I won't be going back), but he never showed up and I ended up leaving because I had to get home, eat lunch, and head to Mathnasium. I ended up emailing him the file I finished and said goodbye and thank you in the email. Although it would have been nicer to do so in person. Oh well.
Anyway, I am incredibly tired and it is 3. Crap. Night.