So apparently the HP 11C scientific calculator is downloadable as an app for iPhones and the iPod Touch. I wonder if Joshi knows this? Anybody feeling like giving me an iTunes giftcard upwards of $9.99?
Go
I played Go with a friend of mine. He's in my GenEd 111 class, and then my PreCal class right after. He's really cool in that he's probably the biggest geek I've met here. I think his name is Eean? Ean? Not sure on the spelling either. Great friend. Anywhoo, I was taking a geek test (to find out if I was a geek) in PreCal (the teacher was droning on something I already knew. Trust me, I checked). I mentioned my outrage that the test included Chess geeks, but not Go, and he agreed! I believe he is one of the first people, if not the only person, I have ever met who knew about Go before I explained it to them. This discovery was exciting. Even more exciting, he's just as bad at it as I am. So, right after PreCal, he and I went back to my dorm to play Go (he was amazed I actually brought a Go set to college). The game was surprisingly even, until Ean made a fatal mistake. (He remembers what. I do not) I eventually won, but the game was very close for the longest time. He and I agreed that this will become a regular thing. I am exploding with happy.
Notes
Soooo. I'm a good student. I'm here to learn. I opt to stay in and do homework, instead of go out and party. I get to bed early, and wake up early to plan my day. I keep lists and sync my calender with my ipod so I'm always on time to class. So logically, I've been keeping on top of my notes, right? I totally haven't spent a week and a half accumulating something along the lines of 20-30 pages of notes on various subjects, without editing and compiling them into some sort of neat, organized notes-document. Right? Yah... sooooo. That's what I spent the hour and a holy crap it's nine already. Yah. Spent all that time working on notes, and after that I've got a grand total of two pages of math notes translated... But it's progress! Mostly I was figuring out Word's infuriating formatting, so now I've got it set up it should be much easier. We'll see how much I can get done tomorrow.
Fear
As I mentioned earlier in a letter to my good friend Lydia (whom I've told about this blog. Say hi Lydia!) I am working hard to get on top of my classes, so as I can start work on getting on top of my life. I currently have no idea how to get from here to the amazing, and far from average, career that I've built up in my head. Firstly, I've been aiming at robots, and this may or may not be what I'm actually interested in. I find I've grown more and more obsessed with blurring the line between man and machine. I like the field of human/machine interaction (or "building peripherals to the human experience," as I put it in that letter to Lydia), and that's what I really think I want to do. Problem is, I really have no idea where to look. I don't even know what it's called. It's this really wide field including User Interfaces, prosthetics and really crazy stuff like adding extra senses to people and messing with their heads. On the subject of robotics, Mum told me to watch things like the Great Robot Race (the one with all the autonomous vehicles out in that desert) and note all the schools involved, and sure, that's the way to do it, but where do I find things like that? Honestly, I really need a mentor at this time in my life (I highly regret not getting one in high school, and for whatever reason I don't work well with Mum) only I don't think this school is set up to help me get one. Right now my long term is so nebulous and confusing, and a good deal of that is the school's fault. It'd be really nice if I could find an adult who could tell me what to do...
Go
I played Go with a friend of mine. He's in my GenEd 111 class, and then my PreCal class right after. He's really cool in that he's probably the biggest geek I've met here. I think his name is Eean? Ean? Not sure on the spelling either. Great friend. Anywhoo, I was taking a geek test (to find out if I was a geek) in PreCal (the teacher was droning on something I already knew. Trust me, I checked). I mentioned my outrage that the test included Chess geeks, but not Go, and he agreed! I believe he is one of the first people, if not the only person, I have ever met who knew about Go before I explained it to them. This discovery was exciting. Even more exciting, he's just as bad at it as I am. So, right after PreCal, he and I went back to my dorm to play Go (he was amazed I actually brought a Go set to college). The game was surprisingly even, until Ean made a fatal mistake. (He remembers what. I do not) I eventually won, but the game was very close for the longest time. He and I agreed that this will become a regular thing. I am exploding with happy.
Notes
Soooo. I'm a good student. I'm here to learn. I opt to stay in and do homework, instead of go out and party. I get to bed early, and wake up early to plan my day. I keep lists and sync my calender with my ipod so I'm always on time to class. So logically, I've been keeping on top of my notes, right? I totally haven't spent a week and a half accumulating something along the lines of 20-30 pages of notes on various subjects, without editing and compiling them into some sort of neat, organized notes-document. Right? Yah... sooooo. That's what I spent the hour and a holy crap it's nine already. Yah. Spent all that time working on notes, and after that I've got a grand total of two pages of math notes translated... But it's progress! Mostly I was figuring out Word's infuriating formatting, so now I've got it set up it should be much easier. We'll see how much I can get done tomorrow.
Fear
As I mentioned earlier in a letter to my good friend Lydia (whom I've told about this blog. Say hi Lydia!) I am working hard to get on top of my classes, so as I can start work on getting on top of my life. I currently have no idea how to get from here to the amazing, and far from average, career that I've built up in my head. Firstly, I've been aiming at robots, and this may or may not be what I'm actually interested in. I find I've grown more and more obsessed with blurring the line between man and machine. I like the field of human/machine interaction (or "building peripherals to the human experience," as I put it in that letter to Lydia), and that's what I really think I want to do. Problem is, I really have no idea where to look. I don't even know what it's called. It's this really wide field including User Interfaces, prosthetics and really crazy stuff like adding extra senses to people and messing with their heads. On the subject of robotics, Mum told me to watch things like the Great Robot Race (the one with all the autonomous vehicles out in that desert) and note all the schools involved, and sure, that's the way to do it, but where do I find things like that? Honestly, I really need a mentor at this time in my life (I highly regret not getting one in high school, and for whatever reason I don't work well with Mum) only I don't think this school is set up to help me get one. Right now my long term is so nebulous and confusing, and a good deal of that is the school's fault. It'd be really nice if I could find an adult who could tell me what to do...
Great. I've spawned the creator of the Borg collective...
ReplyDeleteHa! Welcome to college life. At least you have a remote idea as to what you want to focus on. Has the school assigned you an adviser yet? Sometimes they can help in pointing you to the professor who knows the most on the subject you are interested in.
ReplyDeleteoh your friend's name is probably Ian ;)
sounds like you're doing pretty well, keep up the hard work