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As the title of this post says, I am starting The Big Push, the Last Hurrah of my undergraduate career. Right now it is April 10th. On May 19th, I defend my thesis, and on June 7th I graduate from Williams. Hopefully. That leaves just a little more than a month [...]
I have become suddenly and completely smitten with the idea of cloud computing, which as far as I can tell is just a fancy way of saying “just trust Google with all of your data.” Highlights include:
Having email and AIM/gchat all in a single, shiny web interface that will likely run at the speed [...]
Every semester it seems I have the same realization, sometime during the first week or two, that producing any sort of work to turn in is a long and involved process. This process includes such stages as “the vague feeling of dread when you remember that paper you have to write next week”, and [...]
Yeah, I know it’s been a while, but I’m back. I think I’ve finally emerged from the existential black hole of the last couple of months (knock on wood), and despite a couple of start-of-the-semester road bumps in the last week, I’m feeling pretty good about my prospects for my last semester of college.
So I [...]
And the weather today was so bone-chillingly nice! Life update: it’s finals, and I have two papers due tomorrow night (tonight?) at midnight, and two exams left after that. BUT the GQ concert went off pretty well, I did tolerably well on my computer science project I turned in last friday night (things [...]
I gave my math colloquium today (on p-adic dynamical systems, boy-o!), which went quite well (despite a solid 48 hours of panic after a disastrous practice talk), and marks, as far as I can tell, one of the real milestones of my senior year. Things are going well in general, despite still not really [...]
Yesterday was Mountain Day, and with the rest of the Williams campus I hiked up a mountain to feast on cider and doughnuts, listen to a cappella and sing The Mountains at the top of my lungs. The weather was perfect, the company was good, and to put the finishing touch on the perfect [...]
Just kidding! But it has been a long time since I’ve been around here, so I would understand if you thought I was never coming back. Truth is, I’ve had quite a rough time getting back into the swing of things here at Williams, but I think I’m just about there. I at least can [...]
This will be, I think, a bizarre flashback to what my blog used to look like, but the New York Times has an article about the cultural practice of binge drinking. The main thrust is that the way people behave when they’re trashed depends more on expectations about such behavior, both individual and cultural, [...]
In what is becoming a disturbingly regular trend I feel must begin this post by apologizing for being such a loser blogger. I’ve had half a dozen ideas kicking around for the last month or so, about the end of the semester, moving, saying goodbye to Williams friends, the various unexpected paths my friends [...]
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