studying and things
i think i like exam time more than most other people. everyone else just seems so stressed out; i'm not exactly immune to stress but i find that i can freak out studying all day and still forget it all and have a relaxing evening. i've been doing a lot of learning the past few days - more studying than usual, for sure - because i've looked at my marks and noticed that i could quite plausibly get >90 on four (three realistically) of my five classes, and that makes me happy and is worth studying for. i can't imagine pulling off a term of marks like that, especially with the amount of work that i do being so minimal. so part of me is actually really excited to write those two exams tomorrow and get a feel for whether this is going to happen or not.
in other news, last night i took a study break and hung out with alex after his percussion jury. he had a beer with humphrey (one of the other drummer guys, who i've met at the nog a few times) and then came to pick me up at we went NOP to humphrey's place, where i came face to face with the most frighteningly large joint i've ever seen. alex's DF (residence discipline fascilitator - ha!) was there too, as well as humphrey's housemate/dealer (a very sweet indian guy who treeplanted for the same company as me last year) and this really sketchy random. like really sketchy, i can't exactly explain why, but he had this overwhelming aura of bad-ass-ness. he was also sorta hot. anyways, it was a crazy evening all in all - both of us ended up ridiculously fucked, to the extent that walking home from there was a definite challenge. i'm still sort of surprised that we made it back, because my attention span was too short to remember what street i was on most of the way!
i think humphrey is a ninja. some people would consider that a rash statement, but he has this weirdly disciplined i-grow-and-sell-and-am-the-master-of-rolling-but-i-don't-smoke thing going on. and his hands are always flying around, doing crazy zippo tricks or pulling unreasonably dangerous weapons out of hidden pockets. ninja.
i really liked cognitive psychology. contentious, but awesome. i like the idea of having a reasonable, coherent model of the mind, even if it is ridiculously computational (production systems? goal stack with push and pop?). i mean, it could very well not be right but its good for now and it is nice that it exists at all. i like the minimal approach with lots of elements being chucked out for not being absolutely necessary - i definitely agree that the simpler the model, the better it is, as long as it explains everything. which is why i don't believe in god...
alright, enough distraction, time to snuggle down in bed with my psyc notes!
in other news, last night i took a study break and hung out with alex after his percussion jury. he had a beer with humphrey (one of the other drummer guys, who i've met at the nog a few times) and then came to pick me up at we went NOP to humphrey's place, where i came face to face with the most frighteningly large joint i've ever seen. alex's DF (residence discipline fascilitator - ha!) was there too, as well as humphrey's housemate/dealer (a very sweet indian guy who treeplanted for the same company as me last year) and this really sketchy random. like really sketchy, i can't exactly explain why, but he had this overwhelming aura of bad-ass-ness. he was also sorta hot. anyways, it was a crazy evening all in all - both of us ended up ridiculously fucked, to the extent that walking home from there was a definite challenge. i'm still sort of surprised that we made it back, because my attention span was too short to remember what street i was on most of the way!
i think humphrey is a ninja. some people would consider that a rash statement, but he has this weirdly disciplined i-grow-and-sell-and-am-the-master-of-rolling-but-i-don't-smoke thing going on. and his hands are always flying around, doing crazy zippo tricks or pulling unreasonably dangerous weapons out of hidden pockets. ninja.
i really liked cognitive psychology. contentious, but awesome. i like the idea of having a reasonable, coherent model of the mind, even if it is ridiculously computational (production systems? goal stack with push and pop?). i mean, it could very well not be right but its good for now and it is nice that it exists at all. i like the minimal approach with lots of elements being chucked out for not being absolutely necessary - i definitely agree that the simpler the model, the better it is, as long as it explains everything. which is why i don't believe in god...
alright, enough distraction, time to snuggle down in bed with my psyc notes!