I intended to work on my homework last night, but unfortunatley, I forgot my power cable for my computer. The battery is not strong enough to work for long, so I came in early to work. I’m a little further along than I was last night, but the 5th problem is a doozy and no [...]

I was unbelievably excited about having my Matlab stuff almost finished yesterday. Today life took away my excitement through lab setup. Normally speaking, my lab setups shouldn’t take that long. Today I spent 4 hours in 2 lab setups, one of which took three and should not have; I’m still not sure what went wrong, [...]

I’m very proud to say that I’ve made it about halfway through my Matlab homework this week by myself and haven’t really struggled. It hasn’t worked perfectly from the get-go, but at least I know where to start now and how to troubleshoot. I feel like I’ve really made progress, considering I started the year [...]

I began writing mine last night. It didn’t go well, but I expected that. It is incredibly difficult, in my opinion, to express why you love what you love in a coherent manner. For inspiration, I looked at example personal statements. None of them, even though they were allegedly good ones, rang true to what [...]

I had a private lesson in tribal fusion today, and I’m proud to say that my bellyroll exists again. It isn’t gigantic (I don’t have a lot of fat there), and it isn’t perfect, but it’s there. The problem is I can “reverse” belly roll easier than doing it the “normal” way. What that means [...]

We had this really difficult (supposedly easy, according to the professor) computational assignment. Thank goodness it is over. I’ve spent the past two nights getting home late and eating Chipotle (fast food sorta Mexican) for dinner. I look forward to cooking something tonight, as well as bonding with the cats. I think they’ve grown resentful. [...]

I’ve been healthy enough that I can start doing little practices. I’m still amazed at how much strength you can lose in a week. A friend of mine who plays piano says her fingers lose an incredible amount of strength if she doesn’t keep up daily practice. Since I can’t regularly attend dance class, I [...]

Perhaps it isn’t so weird, but I always find it funny when I have students who are friends/know people I know. For instance, spring quarter one of my students was a girl my fiancee tried dating. This quarter, I have the younger brother of my fiancee’s friend and some kids I saw around (and talked [...]

Since I’ve never done any specifically science review, I thought this Sunday that I’d give some shoutouts to two of my favorite time-savers: Mathematica and my TI-89 Mathematica is software that does all sorts of powerful things: graphing (I’ve done pretty 3D graphs for classes in my undergraduate days), matrix operations, summations, and so on. [...]

Which means I haven’t done anything. Between being sick and my advisor being busy, there has been no progress for a few weeks. It makes me very nervous, since I didn’t make (in my opinion) a lot of progress this summer. One of my advisors other advisees said something similar happened to him and the [...]