I'm wikked beat.  Studied a lot over this past week and I think managed a solid C on my Bio midterm, which is about the best I could hope for given the breadth of material and my lack of experience. Go team!  I think I stand a good chance of passing the class.  Comp. Neuro. is still focused on Matlab so I'm killing it, and the Linear Systems ( Read more... )

School is going OK.  I failed my first Bio quiz, but no one makes their first jump so I'm not letting it slow me down.  Speaking with some other students at Oktoberfest ( as good a place for any for academic discourse ) I learned that the Mol. Bio. profs dump on the first years, but somehow everyone turns out O.K.  I have another quiz this Friday ( Read more... )

bikes bikes bikes bikes bikes bikes bi- I went for a short ride today and it didn't hurt, but I still don't feel like I should force anything. I think I'm on the verge of healthy so hopefully by next week I will be able to ride regularly. That would make me unbelievably happy.  Also next weekend is Oktoberfest in Germantowne!

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I get to "learn" tables of amino acid properties for my Mol. Bio. quiz this Friday. I am wicked pissed.

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After I finish this case of Franziskaner no more bringing alcohol home. I promise.

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Wrapping my knees all week long has helped a lot and I can almost get around without.  Still weak, still can't bike. This sucks.  Maybe in October?

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Wasted time at the school health clinic today.  I'm fairly sure they just google'd "knee pain", but that's what I get.  I'm going to keep my knees wrapped for a while and see how I feel in two weeks.  It's torture spending so much time inside.

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First week went well.  I changed my schedule yet again so now I'm taking: Bio, Computational Neuroscience, and Linear Systems.  Bio looks like it will be a lot of memorization ( surprise! ) but the tests are apparently based on analyzing real data which might be kinda cool.

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“For the modern [ Electrical Engineer ], the lure of the Laplace transform is its ability to map the complicated
operation of convolution into multiplication. This integral has for decades driven electrical
engineering undergraduates to contemplate theology either for salvation or as an alternative career.”
-  Paul J. Nahin

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