well, i passed my orals.
whee!

orals: tomorrow, 1pm. to do: prepare melon swan fruit salad, get cheese, plates, etc. finish reading my thesis. prepare outline of what to say. make slideshow of pictures of robots. feeling: a lot calmer after talking to my advisor. she reminded me that "this is your time to shine" and that "if you haven't learned something in the past 9 months, ( Read more... )

blarg. need to write paper. not excited about it. also need to make sketches and sign up for art conference, and prepare for orals. (!)

i just found the most ridiculous typo in my thesis. it proves why i shouldn't be allowed to write things at 5 in the morning. (probably when i wrote this ( Read more... )

am close! so close...

gar, this jackass was just walking around the cus desk with LAURELS. i feel like it's time for the annual bitchy reed-lj post about where fuckers should and should not wear their laurels.

and yes, i know he actually is a jackass in general from being in a group project in a class with him.

quick! thesis question ( Read more... )

if i could, i would punch TeX in the teeth right now. why? oh, i'll show you why:

Error: /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/pdflatex (file revolut
ejoint.pdf): pdf inclusion: found pdf version <1.6>, but at most version <1.4 ( Read more... )

"We now succumb to the natural impulse to solve these equations using the quadratic formula."

Yes, I \emph{did} just write that as part of my thesis.

Except for leaving to get coffee, lunch, and dinner, I've been in the biblio since 10:05 am; five minutes after opening. I think I'll be here until the compulsory time of migration to the ETC.

my goodness. i don't want to be any closer to the SU than (inside) the library, because that shit is too loud FROM HERE. how do people have eardrums/ hearing sensitivity left? i mean, seriously? i hate loud.