Thursday, January 29, 2015

UW Update Thursday 1/19/15 (Brief)

1.     UW Update Thursday 1/19/15 (Brief)
a.     Physics tutorial on magnets and circuits, neat stuff.
b.     Cow class. Discussed Odyssey, Greek views of cattle, paradoxical balance between wanting to control animal world and yet celebrating Dionysian animal-like behavior symbolized by half-animal, half-human satyrs.
c.      Ate lunch at 8; listened to Serial and did reading
d.     Went to physics lab, did circuits.
e.     Went to Paccar and met with Walker and Maria about Cow presentation on Maasai. Interesting sidenote: turns out Maria has an interest in math education.
f.      Played Frisbee for a bit in the quad with a guy from Glee Club and a few of his friends.
g.     Went to Glee Club. I’m definitely on the beginners’ awesome steep learning curve with respect to both reading music and voice technique.
h.     Grabbed dinner at 8 with Xin.
i.       Returned to dorm, talked with Donovan in hall.
j.       Went to Film Club with Jamie. Watched cool movie called The Guest.
k.     Returned to dorm, did physics reading, then decided to go read in the lounge. This fateful decision had the usual consequences:
                                                 i.      I was called in to help with someone’s (in this case Sasha’s) physics hw.
                                               ii.     I was subsequently distracted by conversation (in this case, with Sasha and Xin and then with the new RA.) This is, in my current model, a feature, not a bug.
                                              iii.     I finally got some reading in, then decided I would collapse mentally if I read for any longer.

l.       Went up, wrote this log.

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