I've been letting this journal lay fallow for awhile, and some of you may have noticed. I seem to think that writing in a blog should be treated in the same way as a crop system: you have to let it lay completely dormant for a growing season so that the soils will be ready for more growth. Fortunately, the online growing season is very short, and ( Read more... )

Today I was informed that "in a few days" I would be seeing a roommate show up here in Mercer 9.  Question:  Now where do I put my food?  What do I do if the roommate demands use of my fridgey?  There certainly isn't space in there with all the veggies I've been storing.  In light of this, and in light of the fact that I simply want to move out of ( Read more... )

I swear, there is no course that has made me want to cry and made me want to shoot myself more times than PHYS 121. Given the rate I'm skipping that class, it's actually pretty goddamn remarkable.
Fuckin' a. At least I'm not taking it next quarter. I have Common Sense when things start doing this.

No, it hasn't happened yet [for me, anyway], but as I feared everything seems to be filling up at an alarming rate. GENOME 371 with That Goddess Mandy Schivell is closed now (although that doesn't mean it won't open later or they are unable to overload, but I imagine it's best I look elsewhere for courses). Biology isn't looking great, either -- ( Read more... )

Those of you who read my last entry saw my letter to Laura Clement, advisor to the undergraduate physics introductory sequences. It was fairly long-winded and it hit the main issues I had with the sequence. If you don't remember it... it's in the [public, of course] entry immediately preceding ( Read more... )

So I took the second midterm today. It went eh-ish. That's all ( Read more... )

1. I'm already burned out with the introductory physics sequence here at UW. I honestly didn't know that an impersonal instructional approach buttressed by a focus on the evaluation of knowledge (instead of the transmittal of knowledge) could piss me off so much, so quickly. Perhaps it's that I'm already jaded to this: I've seen how bad general ( Read more... )

I've hit that point: I have absolutely no idea what I want to do with my summer, and it's freaking me out. I keep getting awesome options coming in my email from the [Biostudent] listserv as well as a few from the Undertow list, both advising lists for my departments. There are some absolutely amazing positions available, and here I'm thinking ( Read more... )

This just in ( Read more... )

When Cooper eats his lentil soup, the world becomes a more orderly place. Ergo, the process of Cooper eating lentil soup decreases the entropy of the universe, and that cannot be. In fact, the reverse must be the case. At all times, one would expect Cooper to be radiating masses of lentil soup ( Read more... )