So I visited Eric Lai yesterday; Matt Jiang was over at his house, and Michelle Lee and Alicia Fernandez showed up later.  I hadn't seen some of those people since graduation.  Good times.

Unfortunately, I didn't get to hang out in Torrance any longer because I had to come back to Pasadena for more DARPA stuff...suddenly volunteering to do DARPA ( Read more... )

So to kind of sum up the stuff that's happened since the last time I wrote anything (a while back):

• Took the Putnam, which went pretty well (relatively speaking, since only one or two people in the nation actually do well on the Putnam in any objective sense).
• Finished finals at Caltech; not too bad.
• Came back to Torrance on break for a week, hung ( Read more... )

Thanksgiving was seriously great.  I got back to Torrance Wednesday night, and wanted to hang out with the South XC guys who were back in town (naturally), so I called up Shawn and Matt and arranged to meet them at the Starbucks by the Ralphs at nine.  Turns out that Starbucks actually closes at nine, so we just kind of ended up hanging out in the ( Read more... )

Yeah, so I got into my first traffic accident today.  Not cool.  Some woman basically pulled out from a stop sign literally 30 feet in front of me as I'm driving down the street, so there was really no time for me to stop; the best I was able to do was swerve far enough away to avoid hitting the driver's door front-on (I was pretty concerned about ( Read more... )

Once again, it's been a while, because life here is pretty hectic as a rule (although now that the cross country season is over, life is returning to a managable pace again).

So to pick up where I left off last time, in a nutshell, DARPA kicks ass :-).  I finally got my actual assignment two Mondays ago, which I'm really excited about; I've ( Read more... )

Needless to say, most of the people here at Tech were less than thrilled with the outcome of the election.  Ordinarily, I would insert some sort of liberal tirade here, but since people are basically getting tired of hearing about politics, I'll spare you that, and just leave you with "Bush sucks, and I'm in fear for the future of the country".

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So today's the big day, and I must say, I'm seriously concerned for the future of the country over the next four years.  I think there may actually be enough stupid people in the country to get Bush elected.  Please, please, PLEASE remember to vote today if you haven't already done so.  And remember, friends don't let friends vote Republican.

We had the SCIAC League Championships today. It went pretty well; I ended up finishing 12th in league, which was right about where I wanted to be, so I was pretty happy with that.  I ran 27:10 today, which comes out to about 5:29 min/mile (although they had to change the course at the last minute because a levy collapsed last night and flooded part ( Read more... )

Well, it's been awhile. Life here is still hectic (midterms are coming up next week), but as usual, it's still been really fun. I finished up most of my work for the week yesterday, so I was able to kind of take Friday night off. I ended up rounding up some people from my house and driving down to Old Pasadena to see a movie. We ended up seeing ( Read more... )

It's been a while... life here as been pretty hectic the past week or so (as usual) but still lots of fun (also as usual).  So to kind of recap some of the major events of the past week.

Cross country:  Had another race yesterday at 5:00 (p.m.); this was our first conference meet, so it actually counted.  We did ok, but it wasn't our best race.  I ( Read more... )