Another Valentine's Day come and gone
And I have to say that it really sucks to have to spend the day apart from the one person you want to be with on this day. Seriously. Top it off by the fact I'm frustrated by the Emory mail service's inability to deliver a letter from Jenn that should have already arrived. Seriously - today they delivered messages that were sent two weeks ago via on campus mail. You read that right, on campus. The messages were literally in the room with them for two weeks before they got around to putting them in the boxes. How pitiful is that? I mean, it completely defies all reason that it could take that long.
So yeah, Pitney Bowes is extremely low on my list.
In other news - for those of you who are in or around Atlanta, you may have noticed the strange white substance covering the ground early Monday morning. Yes, dear friends, it had snowed. I awoke to my alarm at 8:30, and the first thing I did was peek through the blinds. I saw a thin white covering on the field, so my next move was to the phone. I called the inclement weather line only to get the bad news - "Normal Business Hours." After a moment's consideration, I decided that a weak attempt at snow deserved a weak attempt at snow day - I would go to my afternoon class, and skip out on work that morning. And so I returned to bed until much closer to lunch time. That was a good morning.
Classes are kinda blah, as usual. Linear Algebra isn't overly challenging, but isn't overly interesting either. I think we have a test next week, so i guess I should make sure I have all the topics straight in my head - you work all the problems and address each theme in such a similar way that it gets confusing what the result actually tells you.
Statistical Mechanics - I'm lucky if I can keep up for half of the class. We had homework due today - four problems. The first I was close to having the answer, but off by a factor of 2, so when I couldn't find where I went wrong I just wrote next to my answer "factor of 2?" and moved on. The second problem I think I got right, the third made sense the way I did it but was probably overly simplified and wrong. For the fourth, I had to prove that some expression equaled - ^2. I was sorta able to do this, but I think my way you also find that - ^2 is equal to zero, which is definitely not the case. Oh well - I spent a good while on it and gave my best efforts. At least Dr. Bowman can see where I am in the course and hopefully be merciful.
Anyway, it's definitely bedtime for me.
So yeah, Pitney Bowes is extremely low on my list.
In other news - for those of you who are in or around Atlanta, you may have noticed the strange white substance covering the ground early Monday morning. Yes, dear friends, it had snowed. I awoke to my alarm at 8:30, and the first thing I did was peek through the blinds. I saw a thin white covering on the field, so my next move was to the phone. I called the inclement weather line only to get the bad news - "Normal Business Hours." After a moment's consideration, I decided that a weak attempt at snow deserved a weak attempt at snow day - I would go to my afternoon class, and skip out on work that morning. And so I returned to bed until much closer to lunch time. That was a good morning.
Classes are kinda blah, as usual. Linear Algebra isn't overly challenging, but isn't overly interesting either. I think we have a test next week, so i guess I should make sure I have all the topics straight in my head - you work all the problems and address each theme in such a similar way that it gets confusing what the result actually tells you.
Statistical Mechanics - I'm lucky if I can keep up for half of the class. We had homework due today - four problems. The first I was close to having the answer, but off by a factor of 2, so when I couldn't find where I went wrong I just wrote next to my answer "factor of 2?" and moved on. The second problem I think I got right, the third made sense the way I did it but was probably overly simplified and wrong. For the fourth, I had to prove that some expression equaled - ^2. I was sorta able to do this, but I think my way you also find that - ^2 is equal to zero, which is definitely not the case. Oh well - I spent a good while on it and gave my best efforts. At least Dr. Bowman can see where I am in the course and hopefully be merciful.
Anyway, it's definitely bedtime for me.