It's a been quite a while...
...as always. I have little inspiration for blogging these days - a good thing overall, probably, since my posts [on Xanga] tend to be emo, bitter, and/or lonely bemoanings about life and all the shitty people/occurrences therein. I still like LJ a lot, but essentially no one I know uses it these days. Also, people just keep up with each by browsing through their hundreds of FB (or, God forbid, Myspace) friends. Xanga is still inferior, but I'm used to it and am connected to many people that way. There's no way to win with blogging!
I should write something happy. Uhhh... School is going well, apart from my spending way too much time on one class (classics: film and ancient world) and next to no time studying for my more important courses (p-chem: quantum mechanics, mse: ceramics & glasses. Still, I always finish things last minute - give or take a load of coffee and pain. Good thing I rarely take more than 3 important or hard classes... Actually, that's pretty pathetic that I'm scared of taking more than that. Granted, it's my senior year and I want more than ever to make my GPA go up.
My classes this quarter are great, relatively speaking. Classics lectures deviate towards being painful, since the prof has been going over [and over again] simple concepts in sometimes a third-grade-esque manner - e.g., being TOO clear and slow. However, she does know a lot about classics and does analyze/demonstrate details in the literature that I wouldn't have thought of. Also, we don't have to memorize anything! No exams, just papers! The only strict memorization I've done thus far was for extra credit: memorizing the proem from The Odyssey. Ten lines, not bad at all.
Chem has mostly been mathematical manipulations and has deviated away from physics = GOOD. I can do that type of math, and I hate trying to wrap my head around physics...
MSE has covered mostly just basics in materials science and chemistry, without going deeply in the many subtopics of ceramics. Yes, it's a class on ceramics. No, we don't do anything with pottery wheels or other artistic creations. Pity that, actually. (I just hate saying that I'm taking ceramics - people assume you spend your time playing with clay, when we're actually studying somewhat complicated topics on the microscale structure, properties, etc. It's materials science, after all!) In any case, I already had a ceramics lab last quarter where the awesome prof let us paint newly cast tiles during the waiting/free time. :D
I'm not artistically inclined in the least, so I'm rather proud of how these guys came out. Perhaps the greatest feat was producing non-blobs using the clogged tips of the little ceramic paint bottles... Note: These were taken with my phone's horrendous 1.3 MP camera, so the focusing and colors aren't exactly realistic. Pre-painting & firing:
Finished (1st batch):
2nd batch:
(Esther was the researcher I was working with, plus the prof teaching that class.)
What my mother did with them:
(Don't know where the Father's Day one went in that shot...)
There, now no one can complain that I haven't posted. They can just complain that I haven't proofread the entry. :)
I should write something happy. Uhhh... School is going well, apart from my spending way too much time on one class (classics: film and ancient world) and next to no time studying for my more important courses (p-chem: quantum mechanics, mse: ceramics & glasses. Still, I always finish things last minute - give or take a load of coffee and pain. Good thing I rarely take more than 3 important or hard classes... Actually, that's pretty pathetic that I'm scared of taking more than that. Granted, it's my senior year and I want more than ever to make my GPA go up.
My classes this quarter are great, relatively speaking. Classics lectures deviate towards being painful, since the prof has been going over [and over again] simple concepts in sometimes a third-grade-esque manner - e.g., being TOO clear and slow. However, she does know a lot about classics and does analyze/demonstrate details in the literature that I wouldn't have thought of. Also, we don't have to memorize anything! No exams, just papers! The only strict memorization I've done thus far was for extra credit: memorizing the proem from The Odyssey. Ten lines, not bad at all.
Chem has mostly been mathematical manipulations and has deviated away from physics = GOOD. I can do that type of math, and I hate trying to wrap my head around physics...
MSE has covered mostly just basics in materials science and chemistry, without going deeply in the many subtopics of ceramics. Yes, it's a class on ceramics. No, we don't do anything with pottery wheels or other artistic creations. Pity that, actually. (I just hate saying that I'm taking ceramics - people assume you spend your time playing with clay, when we're actually studying somewhat complicated topics on the microscale structure, properties, etc. It's materials science, after all!) In any case, I already had a ceramics lab last quarter where the awesome prof let us paint newly cast tiles during the waiting/free time. :D
I'm not artistically inclined in the least, so I'm rather proud of how these guys came out. Perhaps the greatest feat was producing non-blobs using the clogged tips of the little ceramic paint bottles... Note: These were taken with my phone's horrendous 1.3 MP camera, so the focusing and colors aren't exactly realistic. Pre-painting & firing:
Finished (1st batch):
2nd batch:
(Esther was the researcher I was working with, plus the prof teaching that class.)
What my mother did with them:
(Don't know where the Father's Day one went in that shot...)
There, now no one can complain that I haven't posted. They can just complain that I haven't proofread the entry. :)