December 2010
18 posts
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Dream - Flying Jesus and Skiing (Dec 28 / morning)
dream
Flying again (without needing to flap my arms), this time I was Jesus
Flew really fast off a building and saw some super-religious Christian guy with a sign shouting at people to accept God
I don’t exactly remember what happened but there was something about answering questions and him going “you are not Jesus”
Anyway, later in an unrelated part of the dream when I was...
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Dream - Flying (Dec 26 / morning)
this dream
There was a huge rainstorm, a ton of people were on a roof
Someone said the only way out was to fly
At this point I was uncertain of my flying abilities, every time I’d try flying, it would never work
My friend started flying and so I wanted to catch up, started flapping my arms and went a short while before falling not too far down.
He came back and showed me the right way...
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December 22, 2010 - 10506 steps
wait that is a lot of steps compared to normally but actually it makes sense now that I think about
11am, went to school to show professor my project, had no idea where he was until about noon. He said it was good and that I am done. So I am done.
Walked home, ate lunch, browsed internet until about 2:30pm
Walked back to school, had exam for ECE161 (programming languages) at 3pm except the...
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December 21, 2010 - 5186 steps
ECE141 (circuits) final at 2pm, eh
ECE161 (programming languages) lecture at 5pm, in the foundation building, learned some stuff about C++. Classes, references, some other stuff. Ended at about 8:15pm.
Only thing left is the final for ECE161 and the final project for EID300
5186 steps taken today.
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December 20, 2010 - 6516 steps
HSS3 exam at 11am. I barely studied for this aside from what our recitation professor told us to study (she emailed us a list of terms and stuff), but it turns out… the thing she sent us WAS THE EXAM. Same questions, same order, same everything (except with a few things removed). I thought it was just a rough outline of what we should study, but no, it was exactly what we should study....
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December 17, 2010 - 4554 steps
PH213 (physics) at noon, RLC circuits and stuff. Last PH213 lecture!
Took subway home at 1pm, played EO3, completely forgot that I still have it on and need to finish fighting this worm thing, gonna go do that now.
4554 steps taken today.
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December 16, 2010 - 6097 steps
ECE141 (circuits) at 10am, more on op-amps. We were informed that we are allowed to bring a sheet of paper with anything on it for the exam.
Three hour break at noon, went to library, did a bit of studying for ph.lab final, then spent the rest of the time working on EID300 project (learning about controlP5, it is pretty neat)
PH213 (physics) at 3pm, RLC circuits with AC sources, etc.
PH291...
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December 15, 2010 - 3477 steps
ECE161 (programming languages) at noon, went into detail about how functions worked in terms of assembly language and memory and stacks and frame/base pointers and return addresses and whatnot, then learned about linked lists.
No HSS3 today, walked home. 3477 steps taken today.
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December 14, 2010 - 8881 steps
MA224 (probability) final exam at 9am, we were allowed to bring laptops, which made it a lot easier. Didn’t get all of the questions (I think) but I don’t think I did terribly.
11am, went to the Radio Shack near Union Square, got some things. When I asked an employee if he knew where the 38kHz IR receiver modules were (I handed him a print-out) he literally said “what the...
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December 13, 2010 - 5805 steps
HSS3 at 11am, arrived about 10 mins late because of train delays
ECE141 (circuits) at noon, did energy transfer stuff, started op-amps
PH213 (physics) at 1pm, learned about calculating inductance
Two hour break at 2pm, went to library, studied for physics (didn’t help, as usual)
PH213 (physics recitation) at 4pm, professor was sick so he wasn’t there but we still got a quiz. Had no...
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December 10, 2010
MA224 (probability) at 11am, got tests back, did way better than I expected (I mean, it’s not a good grade, but I thought I’d do worse). He added 8 points to everyone’s grade because that’s his way of curving, though technically I guess it’s not really a curve. Then we went over what would be on the exam.
PH213 (physics) at noon, more things about EM waves
Went to...
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December 9, 2010 - 5583 steps
ECE141 (circuits) at 10am, filters (low pass, high pass, band pass), then some things about power in AC circuits
Three hour break at noon, went to library, did a problem for circuits (just one problem, kept getting an answer that seemed really off, but I dunno, decided to just leave it). Then did a bit of physics lab stuff.
PH213 (physics) at 3pm, learned about the interconnectedness of E and...
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December 8, 2010 - 3819 steps
ECE161 (programming languages) at noon, learned about stacks and function pointers. No break.
HSS3 at 3pm, finished presentations on Dark Continent, discussed “A Tempest”, then watched some of The Battle of Algiers. It was interesting. Got essay back, did well.
Walked home at 5pm, it was really cold. 3819 steps taken today.
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December 7, 2010 - 5823 steps
MA224 (probability) at 9am, finished up everything we had to learn. Apparently we get to bring in our laptops during the final (to use Excel), and everyone was just like “whaaat” (well not aloud, but you could tell they were thinking that. I know I was)
11am, went up to EE lab, got some wire and other stuff
Took the subway home, read The Onion. Decided to walk a lot more than I...
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December 6, 2010 - 5950 steps
Found my pokewalker today. It was in my dad’s car, as I had hoped.
PH291 (physics lab) at 9am, it was very straightforward and everyone finished half an hour early.
HSS3 at 11am, some stuff about after WWII
ECE141 (circuits) at noon, Thevenin and Norton equivalent circuits for phasor domain. Got test back, I got 1 point below the average which was kinda unexpected since I felt like I did...
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December 3, 2010
MA224 (probability) at 11am, did the beginning of chapter 4 and the beginning of chapter 5. The final exam will be on the 17th.
PH213 (physics) at noon, learned the actual Ampere’s law which includes E-field flux.
At 1pm, went up to the EE lab, got some wire, a potentiometer, some resistors, and an op amp. Went to Radio Shack and bought a desoldering bulb, an enclosure, and some small...
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December 2, 2010
Registration at 9am, didn’t get locked out of any classes. Went to library, browsed Twitter.
ECE141 (circuits) at 10am, learned more phi-domain stuff (finding steady state solutions). Seems a lot easier than time-domain circuits that have inductors and/or capacitors.
Three hour break at noon, went to library, ended up browsing stuff about soldering, desoldering, how to maintain soldering...
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December 1, 2010
Lost my pokewalker today. Hopefully it fell out of my pocket in my dad’s car and not on the subway or on the street or something. Because that would be terrible.
Anyway.
Picked up Maxbotix EZ4 sonar sensor from professor at noon.
ECE161 (programming languages) at noon, except it was more like 2pm because the professor was two hours late (something about train delays; it was raining a...