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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 [...]
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 [...]
So in preparation for actually writing my Tibetan paper I’m taking a deep breath of sorts and reading through all my notes and (finally!) transcribed interviews and papers from the semester, and I’ve come to the somewhat distressing conclusion that the first half of what I write for a long paper is utter crap. Maybe [...]
A few days ago we took a fieldtrip to the Norbulingka Institute, which was established by the CTA with the aim of preserving traditional Tibetan arts and crafts. While the thangka painting was wonderful and the grounds were beautiful, what I was really taken by was watching the metal- and wood-workers. I think [...]
I’m writing a life history paper for our Tibetan culture class, and I can safely say that it’s one of the hardest papers I’ve ever had to write. For one thing, it’s totally different than the “find a point and make it” papers that I/we’ve been writing, well, since we could write papers at [...]
Good news: I’ve got more than 30 people signed up for my study over the next four days…we were optimistically hoping for 20, so that is awesome news. That means we might be able to get the paper out the door before the semester starts! Hooray!
Bad news: I’m still sick :( And it’s hot, muggy [...]
Part of my job this summer is working on getting our lab ready to run experiments directly from within Matlab. This is, so I’m told, to be accomplished by means of something called PsychToolbox, a set of libraries and routines, written in C but callable from within Matlab, that provide direct, platform-independent control over the [...]
So that whenever I see anyone around campus this week, I can ask them “so…how’s the venereal disease” and then wink knowingly. Yuk yuk yuk. But seriously: finals are this close to being over, and that means that this awful semester is also this close to over. I handed in the term [...]
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