California, Week 3 (or was it 4?)
Will you swear on your life,
You never really realize what it's like to be off on your own until you are actually there. I think I've talked to more people in the last three weeks than I usually do in a year, and I haven't even been out of my room half as much as I could be. It's different, can't say it's good or bad, but at least I'm seeing what I'll be doing in a few years. Looks like every physicist lives in a house without A/C, eats EZ Mac at least twice a day, and can't get anywhere without walking 2 miles or taking a bus. A liberal arts major is looking pretty good right now.
Actually, the internship isn't that bad. Somehow I keep lucking into jobs where I sit around in a computer lab and act like I'm doing work for forty hours a week. I programmed about 30 lines of code my first day here that record data every few minutes for the next couple weeks. If it wasn't for my awesome work ethic, I would probably skip the next 4 weeks and come back and still finish my project in time.
My job consists of looking at noise in the signal they use to run the particle acclerator here. If all else failed and I didn't leave my room for the next few weeks, I could probably walk in on my presentation day and tell them "CUT DOWN ON THE TALKING BIZNITCHES" and still get my paycheck.
Instead of sitting around at my dorm though, I decided to code a graphical user interface (gui) that handles data better than the one they have now. Oh, and I also decided to get some really weird looks from people as I carried around my laptop taking
i did this in 5 minutes. 4 of those minutes were spent learning wtf MATLAB was
this is where i spend 8 hours a day drawing pretty pictures and reading wikipedia
my screen does this every 6 minutes, a freaking monkey could do this job
a monkey could prolly program this gooey better than me too =(
normal programmer? less than 50 lines of code
me? 250 lines of code + a few curse words in the comments
this is my pride a joy, three more weeks and i'll having it shoot lasers out of the monitor
STOP YELLING IN THE TUNNEL, NOISE WILL BE REDUCED BY 438%
t-shirt? michigan. time? california. location? awesomeness
Oh yeah, and the most important pics of all:
most awesome view, ever
who am i kidding, this one is even more awesome
and that's my room. yup, only my head fits in it
If I keep up with this picture taking, I'll just hand them a paper at the end with a link to livejournal.
Spending the next three days in California mountains. Unfortunately my laptop consumes 2 AA batteries every 5 minutes so there might be a lack of pictures. The lack of internet and busses will suck too. At least it won't be 90 degrees wherever I'm sleeping (I hope).
Hope everyone is enjoying their summer, hope to see some friendly faces up here soon (hell I might like it if you make an ugly face at me too).
That no one will cry at my funeral?
Click to viewYou never really realize what it's like to be off on your own until you are actually there. I think I've talked to more people in the last three weeks than I usually do in a year, and I haven't even been out of my room half as much as I could be. It's different, can't say it's good or bad, but at least I'm seeing what I'll be doing in a few years. Looks like every physicist lives in a house without A/C, eats EZ Mac at least twice a day, and can't get anywhere without walking 2 miles or taking a bus. A liberal arts major is looking pretty good right now.
Actually, the internship isn't that bad. Somehow I keep lucking into jobs where I sit around in a computer lab and act like I'm doing work for forty hours a week. I programmed about 30 lines of code my first day here that record data every few minutes for the next couple weeks. If it wasn't for my awesome work ethic, I would probably skip the next 4 weeks and come back and still finish my project in time.
My job consists of looking at noise in the signal they use to run the particle acclerator here. If all else failed and I didn't leave my room for the next few weeks, I could probably walk in on my presentation day and tell them "CUT DOWN ON THE TALKING BIZNITCHES" and still get my paycheck.
Instead of sitting around at my dorm though, I decided to code a graphical user interface (gui) that handles data better than the one they have now. Oh, and I also decided to get some really weird looks from people as I carried around my laptop taking
i did this in 5 minutes. 4 of those minutes were spent learning wtf MATLAB was
this is where i spend 8 hours a day drawing pretty pictures and reading wikipedia
my screen does this every 6 minutes, a freaking monkey could do this job
a monkey could prolly program this gooey better than me too =(
normal programmer? less than 50 lines of code
me? 250 lines of code + a few curse words in the comments
this is my pride a joy, three more weeks and i'll having it shoot lasers out of the monitor
STOP YELLING IN THE TUNNEL, NOISE WILL BE REDUCED BY 438%
t-shirt? michigan. time? california. location? awesomeness
Oh yeah, and the most important pics of all:
most awesome view, ever
who am i kidding, this one is even more awesome
and that's my room. yup, only my head fits in it
If I keep up with this picture taking, I'll just hand them a paper at the end with a link to livejournal.
Spending the next three days in California mountains. Unfortunately my laptop consumes 2 AA batteries every 5 minutes so there might be a lack of pictures. The lack of internet and busses will suck too. At least it won't be 90 degrees wherever I'm sleeping (I hope).
Hope everyone is enjoying their summer, hope to see some friendly faces up here soon (hell I might like it if you make an ugly face at me too).
That no one will cry at my funeral?