Showing posts with label TG. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TG. Show all posts

Sunday, August 31, 2008

Doctor Who?

Well, in the last two days, Teresa and I have gotten through twenty episodes of DW. Granted, they're only half hour eps, but that's still ten hours of lateseventies/earlyeighties British sci-fi. And goodness, but Tegan's annoying.

And yes, Mom, we've had yogurt. It was tres nice :)

Downloaded the new firefox version yesterday; it's quite nice, I think. Everything looks... cleaner, I think. Quite good. Plus, the download window now hsow more information, which I appreciate.

I have some proofs homework to do this weekend, though it's not due until Wednesday, and it looks much easier than the logic puzzles we've been doing, So that's good. And my physics prof, looking over my first lab reports, said that the formatting looked good, so that was a relief. Whether he likes my analysis is another question, but at least the presentation was all right...

And now, for you pretty TG macro of the day:


Monday, August 25, 2008

Physics and Logic and Maths, oh my!

Well, first day of the semester down. Calculus was fun; I knew several people, and it was the professor I had for calc 2. He's a funny guy; just 30, and only been teaching a couple of years. Here are some of his better quotes from calc last year:

"What the... is this some kind of sick joke?" On only having small pieces of chalk

"Does anyone think that's cool other than me, or am I just flying solo in Darksville?" On deriving the formula for the circumference of an ellipse.

"I didn't know I was going to become a politician when I became a professor. I just wanted to do math."

"It's like picking out a brand of cereal. Man, I'm bad at stuff like that." On picking test problems

"Hiding away from real work all day. That's what academics do." On summer plans

And then, from just this morning:

"Have you seen the [campus] maps? My God, I don't think even Smurfs could read those maps."

So yeah. Calc was fun. Except that we're shoved into a tiny classroom in the gym building. Which is... kinda weird, but whatever.

A bunch of us math folk then trooped over to proofs, where we did some sample problems out of the book. They were pretty much logic puzzles, but I completely understood them, when it seemed like a lot of people just flat out didn't. So that made me feel better, though this probably isn't what we'll be doing for the rest of the semester. Ah well. I've had this prof before, for calc 1, so that was nice too. He's good guy.

Logic was awful. I mean, it'll be an easy A, but the teacher is unbelievably condescending and repetitive. Sigh. well, I'll just read the required chapters beforehand, and then I won't have to be listening to him for lecture. Oi.

Physics... well, for one, has some pretty significant gender disparities. The M/F ratio is about 6.5/1, so that's different. Otherwise though, it seems like it'll be... hard, but probably worth it. Requiring of a lot of reading, certainly. And I have to figure out how to wirte a good lab report. A perk is that the Physics department doesn't have the money to hire graders, so we don't have to turn in any homework. Which is nice for us, but bad, on the overall scale of things. Poor physicists.

But, enough about school (and biking around in 90 degree weather!). Here's a nice, pretty TG macro for you all:

She's a maniac, maniac... (about school)

Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.

Right. Okay. I leave in half an hour. *Will not be ill in the meantime*

Heard Spencer clomping around at 6:30, and there was a note for me on the white board when I went downstairs for brekkie, informing me what time he'd left. Bless.

Right. Calculus first, followed by Proofs, then Logic, then finishing up with Physics. Okay. Right.

But now, for something completely different:



and,



Because every day should begin with a little bit of the BBC. Macroed, when possible.

I don't have a water bottle at the moment, but fortunately I found alid for one of the fairly large tupperware-brand cups. That should see me through the day.

Gaaaaaah, okay. *Runs away to compulsively brush her hair and repack her backpack*