I missed one point on the programming final. ONE POINT!! That was a fucking hard test! Go me!!!!

So, this summer will be a crash-course in biochemistry and protein folding. I have to read the first six chapters in a biochem book, and like ten papers on prion disease by the 18th. It should be interesting. My research this summer will be running simulations on prion proteins and looking at the differences between the nativev protein and the ( Read more... )

I just wrote a program that compresses a file to about half it's size using a special binary tree. It can then decompress the file too! Sigh, last programming assignment. Sadness! :(

So my summer research program is flying everybody to California this summer for a conference. We're going to Lake Tahoe!! Mmmmmmmmmmm.......free trip to pretty place to talk about science. :D

This weekend is Folklife! I'm so excited - I've spent the last hour looking over the schedule at all the things I want to do. Some highlights ( Read more... )

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...but I finally finished my Russian midterm (except for some revisions in the morning). It only took me 11 straight hours. Fucking writing.

I was going to make a real update for once, but I'm tired, I still have lots of studying to do for bio tomorrow, and I have a cat in my lap, which is steadily draiing away my motivation to do anything other than sleep. So, instead of an update, Dylan ( Read more... )

"The electronic mass media fill our eyes and whisper in our ears, replacing reason with cliches and lies. Envy shows us Nikolai Kavalerov's world as he might have also seen our own: as false, overbreaing, unhuman, and fractured."
- Ken Kalfus (from the introduction to Envy by Yuri Olesha)

Quote from my MATLAB textbook:

"Of course, the extreme version of this idea - unplanned flailing in the editor window - is counterproductive."

I love it when textbooks make jokes. :D