Wednesday Dec. 3

1.     Wednesday Dec. 3

a.     Woke up and walked to eat breakfast at the 8. Encountered Eleanor and Sasha, and another person I didn’t know that well, Freeman.

b.     Went to physics, where we discussed orbits. The mathematical machinery surrounding orbits is very powerful, even if it is difficult to derive; given what seems like very little information about an orbit, you can calculate everything else about it.

c.      Worked on CS assignment outside, then did course evaluations and physics pretest.

d.     Ate lunch at the HUB, finished my physics book (!) and went to computer science. We talked about hashing, a remarkably straightforward technique for building data structures with extremely fast access and search, albeit slightly more memory usage.

e.     Returned to dorm, checked email, and took a nap. 7 hours of sleep is not sufficient for me.

f.      Woke up, did a little work on education paper, and met Christian at the Allen Library Research Commons. We worked on our presentation and paper, ending up with a pretty decent flow for our presentation. The whiteboard-lined walls at the Research Commons are awesome—we ended up doing a lot of work on them J

g.     Went to the 8, video chatted with family while eating pizza. Worked on education paper for a good 2 hours, took an eyeball break to shoot some hoops at Denny, took a shower, brushed teeth, did a little more work on the education paper, wrote this log, and went to bed.