One of my fire photos made the front page of the Freep today! It's not my favorite one, it's way too dark and the caption the editors wrote is pretty laughable, but it's still exciting to have one of my pictures printed ( Read more... )

I think I finished my Spot News photojo assignment, which is due in April and worth 3x a normal grade. I also got way too close to a car that could've exploded at any moment (though I backed off when the windows shattered) and almost gave Kelly a heart attack, but it's not exactly a common occurrence for a car to randomly burst into flames and for ( Read more... )

After reading an e-mail that my photojo professor just sent to everyone, I'm pretty sure I got a 0 on my first assignment. I saw it coming when I was two minutes past the DEADline on Monday, but the e-mail finally made it sink in. I have a feeling that Monday's class will be a nightmare when my professor projects all of the photos and I see mine ( Read more... )

Trying to figure out how the hell to code up a Java program that uses f(x) = x^k - n to calculate the kth root of a real number n by taking a guess x0 and improving that guess by performing iter steps of this


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I had my first photojournalism class today, and my professor told us to carry our cameras EVERYWHERE because we will have a spot news assignment where we need to shoot something news-worthy that occurs spontaneously, like a car crash or a fire. I haven't been carrying mine lately because it's pretty clunky, but I decided to bring it to dinner just ( Read more... )

Yesterday was fun! I went shopping in Downtown Crossing with Kelly and found some really awesome $3 books at the Brattle Book Shop, including Kafka's The Castle, a book called "Reality Check: What Your Mind Knows, But Isn't Telling You" which may or may not be pseudoscientific fluff, and another book entitled "Drugs of Choice: Current Perspectives ( Read more... )

2008 will be a year of no regrets.

I spent most of today playing with different Linux distributions, none of which worked until I discovered I really needed to flash my BIOS (whoops) and that somehow fixed everything. I finally decided to put Linux Mint on my desktop because it seemed like the best choice. Now I have a nice dual-boot system with Mint and XP, but I don't think I'll ( Read more... )

So I just got a 15-paragraph-long e-mail from my Photojournalism professor for next semester asking for a resume, three references, and a cover letter regarding career aspirations, and I'm officially scared. Do they kick people out of the course if their resume, references or reasons aren't good enough? It's a great way of weeding people out, I ( Read more... )

Just got my grades, and I'm kind of ashamed that I got a B+ in JO 357; that course is a JOKE, and should have been an easy A. I guess I just can't absorb and regurgitate useless information as well as I did during high school anymore. I'm happy with my other grades, though ( Read more... )