a friend of mine and i had just come back from an art museum and we spent some time by the pool (gazing pool? is that what they're called? of the washington monument variety?) by prudential center talking about materialism and the differences between capitalism and communism (my friend grew up in a communist country too) and how lucky I felt that I ( Read more... )

oh, ok, if my personality flaw is that i'm fucked up--

i already know that.

but i'm also a great person and i can cook, so that makes up for it? whatever.

you really start to feel like you're getting old when your friends start getting married or engaged ( Read more... )

I am writing a paper about a project I'm working on. Its content is loosely based on game theory and AI of rock paper scissors (which is actually a seriously studied game in all game theory texts). But I couldn't stop laughing when I wrote the following ( Read more... )

i am learning HTML etc in order to design a website for my research ( Read more... )

plan a: to be an art thief.

plan b: to be a card counter.

i've come across some bad employers, but this probably counts as one of the worst ( Read more... )

unknown male: Hi, I'm Jesse ( Read more... )

people will say do what you love, and then other people will say do what you must ( Read more... )

I think this semester I will routinely pull 2 all-nighters a week. This week was especially horrible because one of my psets usually due on Monday was due on Wednesday and the one due on Thursday was still due on Thursday, so I slept probably an hour or two in a span of 48+ hrs. On the other hand, Galois theory is really brilliant. Everybody should ( Read more... )