We ended up having 11 people over at our place (including Me, my folks, and Al) for Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday. It was nice (ok, the food was; most of the guests were my parents' age, but at least Oded was there or I would have gone nuts from boredom), but man, I hate cleaning the house. Not just before the meal, either (that's "stressful ( Read more... )

Happy Thanksgiving!!! Enjoy the turkey, rest of the food, guests, and football!

So I haven't heard from the group of parents regarding tutoring in English/writing (the $75/hr group)...and our first session was supposed to be last Friday. Met with a new student ($40/hr) who I'm helping in writing. Turns out the kid is going to be a pain in the ass (I don't mean he doesn't understand material, I mean he's going to try and resist ( Read more... )

Done with a draft of my statement of intent for grad schools, and have narrowed down the list of schools I'll apply to to 13 (yeah, real narrow list). I also might have some new students starting this week (a group of 3 students for $75/hr, 2 hrs a week; and one more student at $40/hr. I just have to see if it all works out schedule-wise). Only ( Read more... )

#8 Cal loses @ Arizona, Washington loses to previously winless Stanfurd, the Warriors roll over the Pistons 111-79 (pictures from this coming soon!), the Sharks beat Phoenix while losing Nabokov (which wouldn't be weird, but last year the Sharks couldn't beat the Coyotes for some reason)....and the 49ers actually win a road game and have a winning ( Read more... )

I got my official scores (GRE) in the mail a few days ago =). Turns out I got 5.5/6 on the writing part of the GRE - good for 87th (or 88th?) percentile. My math score of 620...only 52nd percentile, but my verbal score of 650 was 92nd percentile! I'm in good shape, and thankfully have Bruce's full support to apply to any school I want to (his ( Read more... )

As you may be aware of (especially if you have and watch ESPN), the football game between the University of Miami and Florida Inernational U. became marred due to a brawl during the game. In any case, the brawl's...highlights (ok, not the right word) and ESPN's GameDay crew's reaction can be seen here: Read more... )

WHOOOOOOOO! AFter months of study (and worrying if I had done enough), I took the GRE Friday. Started out with the 2 essays - the "present your perspective on an issue" one that I wrote about was "studying the past is useless to understanding life in today's complex, modern world" (you choose to either agree or disagree with the prompt). I ( Read more... )

...the sun always shines on game day (my little personal mantra ( Read more... )

Just took a practice GRE and got 1270 (620 verbal, 650 math). If I get this on Friday, I can't complain (well, I can, but will try not to =P). Hopefully I can bump my my scores a little, get it to 1300 or more. What's a little strange is that despite the lower score, my verbal percentile ranking is much higher than the math (88th percentile verbal ( Read more... )