back in high school, fullmetal alchemist was really big. if there was ever a phrase in anime that left a sufficiently large impression on my impressionable teenage self, it would be 等価交換 a.k.a. "equivalent exchange." if only that worked IRL ( Read more... )

beginning the year with 「耳をすませば」:) i wish i watched this when i was younger, 'cause writing an analysis of the movie for some class would've actually been really enjoyable! :o bildungsroman with more than a hint of childhood romance == super cute! <3 i've been watching a lot of japanese movies recently [no chanbara tho], and most are very slow ( Read more... )

Hm, spent some time discussing my problems with people ( Read more... )

Research retreats haven't been going too terribly... but a conversation with a friend did bring me back to darker times. Basically, grad school has consisted of ( Read more... )

I should really be working on slides for a presentation, but I'm not ( Read more... )

Everyone has different ways to learn/pick up debugging skills, but some people are SO dismissive about the way other people learn... They just can't relate to people who are just getting started, and come off as total !@#$... Look, there are some things I pick up quickly and others that I just freeze on... And why don't you get that? :\ Is it that ( Read more... )

For the first time since I started this new project, I got some legitimately positive feedback about my work. You know, not the superficial kind... feedback from people who did similar things, who had some idea how not easy this problem is (despite being fairly well explored ( Read more... )

I seed someone with a good idea, although I don't know the best way to implement it... and suddenly the person claims it's what he/she wanted to do all along ( Read more... )

First time I've ever published! *soexcite* :D Too bad I'm already in my 4th year :x

So I've had a semi-stressful last week, what with having to give a presentation and all. It culminated in me feeling kind of shitty b/c I felt like people didn't care what I was doing (possibly just me thinking too much about it). But I had a private conversation later with my advisor (and another prof happened to walk by and chime in on our ( Read more... )