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| Midterm exams are not yet over, unlike my will to take them, but thankfully the rest of them fall after fall break. Anything else exciting? Hardly--running on all steam school-wise doesn't leave much of anything worth scribing about.
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There appears to be a "game" going on here. I can tell because of the 47 (I counted) cars parked up and down the street as far as the trees let me see. More exciting have been the various presentations and colloquiums I've been able to attend this past week. Everything from complexity theory to graphics to multiagent systems to bioinformatics (lots of bioinformatics), it's good to be among real research for a change. Being able to decide whose homework gets to come first (my students, to be graded, or mine to be completed) has been the order of the day, and yet it is not absolutely encumbering at this point. Having 8 hours of lab time a week (plus grading, etc.) keeps me just as busy as the 9 credit hours (plus homework) of class time. Things I've gotten to learn since school started: - Relative CPU performance scaling using Amdahl's Law
- Chinese Rice Noodles go with anything
- Matrix representations of graphical transforms
- Garlic powder does not go with anything
- Theorems for recursively-define algorithmic analysis
- "Washing" dishes is very relative
- There is a practical use for what I study
- Music and movies are very therapeutic at the right times
- The school newspaper is helpful for knowing what the "game" is this week
- That my birthday is going to be completely eclipsed by the release of Halo 3
And probably other things that I very well may have forgotten already. Now if I can just remember how to write an essay...
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