Electromagnetic radiation: ER

-Short wavelength
cosmic rays: Gamma
Radiation:
X-rays
UV light
Visible light
Infared
microwaves
radiowaves
-long wavelength

So as hard as IZE worked me for the first nine weeks, I ended up rearranging my schedule for slightly less work and a lot more lab, it was nothing compared to the aptly named hell week... Yes, some of us hippies do actually manage to work for our credits. However when the dust settled I had sixteen upper-division science credits and a kick ass ( Read more... )

I finally managed to get someone alive calling DCPS back about the Blackman/Jones award letter they sent me. Apparently since we won I get my award in the form of a computer that is above certain reasonably generous specs and below $1500. I've got a choice between a PC laptop or desktop or a Mac laptop or desktop. I'm going to go with the ( Read more... )

So far I love Invertebrate Zoology and Evolution and there's plenty of microbiology to make the taxonomy slightly more interesting but holy shit do I have shit to do... Class is a good 45-60 hours of class, lab, studying and reading per week which so far has been cool I've been hanging out less and can't seem to ever have nothing to do. But Monday ( Read more... )

I came across a wonderfully subversive article on our K-12 math curriculum that unfortunately has yet to be published but has been circulating around the mathematics community for a couple years. Its written by Paul Lockhart, a fellow who learned math on his own terms and managed to somehow educate himself rather than rely on the "training" ( Read more... )

Its been a while since I've posted and both very much and very little has happened ( Read more... )

Blasdel, Robert ( Read more... )

Motherfucker is full of shit... He lost my e-mail and filled all of the slots before I brought it back to his attention and now he gets back to me; a week after my time ticket started. It is indeed to late to register for the very few classes that would interest me as the [i]waiting lists[/i] got full very quickly. There have been very slim ( Read more... )

I am going to be flying to Pittsburgh in about a week to spend a couple of days with Sarah before Greyhounding it to DC for the rest of Winter break. The last of the BS in my class will be over tonight, whether I like it or not, so right now I'm temporarily avoiding a mountain of work I would have found vaguely condescending and certainly remedial ( Read more... )

My grandparents sent out an e-mail letting everyone know how they are doing, they are awesome people by the way, and I realized I hadn't updated them in a while. So I wrote them an e-mail that I since realized was also good livejournal fodder ( Read more... )