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It’s the New Year. (Yeah, yeah, I’m 3 weeks late. So sue me.)
But this isn’t a post about resolutions for 2008. It’s a retrospective on my 2007 resolution.
I’ve always done fairly well academically, but during college I hadn’t ever had a perfect straight-A semester. Since I was going to graduate a semester early, 2007 perfectly contained the last two semesters of my college career, so I made my resolution on December 31st, 2006, that in 2007 I’d get a 4.0 one of those semesters.
Summer of 2007 rolled around, and I came close. Two A’s, two A–’s. 3.85 GPA. Close, but no cigar.
I was down to the wire with only one semester left. But I stuck the landing. Booyah.
2007 Resolution: Completed.
(2008 doesn’t have a traditional resolution, per se. It’s more of a curious project. More on that later.)
ם Things I Saw Today…
Posted on September 12, 2007 at 5:00 pm
In one of my classes, the same kid always sits in front of me. We’ve only had the class three times so far, and:
- Day 1: He’s eating a banana, but has this strange wrist-flipping technique that un- and re-sheathes the banana in its own peel between bites. A little strange, but nothing to comment on. Until…
- Day 2: He’s eating an orange. Okay, so he likes fruit. No big deal—but what’s this? Hmm… he’s not sectioning the orange and eating it like, well, an orange. No, instead he’s eating it like an apple, taking direct bites right out of the side. Weird.
- Day 3: Today, he’s got an apple. But does he eat it like an apple? Of course not! No, instead, he’s peeling it with his fingers as if it were an orange.
Seriously, what gives?
Why I both love and hate mathematics:
From Volume I of Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russel’s Principia Mathematica, page 379:
“From this proposition it will follow, when arithmetical addition has been defined, that 1+1=2.”
This proof of this proposition is completed 373 pages later, on page 86 of Volume II, along with the note:
“The above proposition is occasionally useful.”
Thanks, Math. Love/hate you.
Also: Love Affairs and Differential Equations.
ם My Future
Posted on November 17, 2006 at 1:14 am
It’s that time of the semester again: class registration time!
Naturally, I had to do some credit-counting to figure out the remainder of my college career. And what did I realize? I’m graduating in 2 semesters (one semester early) with a major and two minors (Mathematics, Pre-Business Studies, and Computer Science, respectively).
And the kicker: I’ll be graduating roughly ten days after my 21st birthday. That is, needless to say, terrifying.
Eesh.
On a lighter note, here’s a video of a guy juggling inside an eight foot tall inverted plastic cone. I like to call it “Bohr’s Model of a Juggler.” (Hooray atomic physics jokes!)
