I might be shaking all over due to the traumatic experience of two grueling two-hour exams in a row...

... but it's more likely due to the fact that I've imbibed ~4 cups of coffee.

whee.

Wow. It's amazing what kind of difference a cup of coffee, a couple peppermint candies, and some music can make. I feel awake, clearheaded, and ready to march unflinchingly towards my horrible, horrible death tomorrow morning.

two final exams tomorrow, one starting at 8 in the morning and lasting two hours, and the next starting a half-hour later and running for another two hours, and a half-hour minimum to get a bus to each exam, and I don't really know if I understand the material for the first exam and I only have a few hours left to review it and if I don't do well ( Read more... )

Heyyy, word of warning to all of you that use AIM.

If someone IMs you out of nowhere with a link to a file (say, you suddenly get an IM that says "haha, check this out") talk to the person before you click on it. It could very well be a virus that automatically sent the message ( Read more... )

Today was the last Math 216 discussion session. By the end of class, Beth Chen had made sure that the chalkboard contained drawings of an eggplant, a tomato, a pineapple, a coconut, a banana, and a fish ( Read more... )

4:04, Thomas's sanity not found

Heh heh heh. I was reading a fascinating thread of blog comments on the subject of ADHD, and I quite liked this excerpt.

"[...] but this is, I think, a sterling example of what I call "Radlein's Rule of Disease Names":

Any disease name composed entirely of common English nouns and adjectives will cause more confusion and trouble than it is worth ( Read more... )

"... yeah, I talked to my GSI about the problem, and he said that he couldn't solve it without using linear algebra," groans Dan. I consider this for a moment, and respond with "well, personally, I'm afraid to even talk to my GSI ( Read more... )

Thank goodness for light-weight laptops and wireless connections ( Read more... )

So a couple weeks ago, I broke down and ended up making a rather expensive purchase... a convertible tablet PC. It's like a normal laptop, but you can rotate the screen 180 degrees and fold it down over the keyboard, then draw on it with a stylus ( Read more... )