I convocated, it was... not as long and painful as I'd been expecting. Kinda nice actually, in a formal-dress-up kinda way. My mom came up for it, and my cousin Colleen got dragged into it all somehow but she didn't seem to mind :) So that's all fun. St. Jerome's had a stylish reception and they gave me a bunch of shwag. My souvenir for ( Read more... )

So research project is going... kinda meh. I'm getting owned my semidefinite optimization, and even linear algebra (although that's the fun part). I hope my prof doesn't think I'm a complete idiot :) I think what we're trying to do is either impossible or trivial; I just can't determine which. Either way, the direction seems poor IMO. I could ( Read more... )

Yay it finally works ( Read more... )

Feeling pretty confused and distant, emo like summer perhaps. Life is great though; I'm just not sure where to take it ( Read more... )

OK, I got that nasty mess with graduation sorted out. Just some new ppl in admin who weren't familiar with the type of magical exceptions that I've got :)

Happy! Once again, it looks like I'm graduating! Thanks for putting up with this ppl :)

Yeeks. I started the day by learning from my prof that I've been going about the project all wrong; it's trivial enough that I should have had stuff working a week ago, but complicated enough that it's still going to take me a while to do so. Or at least, to prove that it's simply not going to work, which means I have to learn a whole lot of ( Read more... )

A miracle occurs!! I got hit by some wyyyld bell curve of sorts, and somehow passed Machine Learning! YaY! For a liittle while I was upset that this had ruined my summer plans, but I've snapped out of that. I graduate LOLZ!

So that changes plans. Waiting for prof to send me his matlab code to hack on. In the meantime, I've been relaaaaxing ( Read more... )

Ottawa is nice because you can see stars! yay stars. Now if only it were a little warmer, I could go kayaking. (is bitter that it's too cold for kayaking)

I haven't been doing much here really, which is wonderful. Reading papers related to my research project, visiting friends, etc.. Last night holdenk and markster3000 and I went out for coffee, so I got ( Read more... )

relaaaxing! and the weather is beautiful ( Read more... )

Skinny white girls
are not the be-all end-all
there's other ways to find humiliation
-- Kill the Lights, one my new fav adorable bands that need love.

No worries I'm not incredibly emo, the lyric isn't particularly applicable, but it's been stuck in my head quite blissfully for the past month ( Read more... )