12/13/15

1. Math review.
2. Highlight: crazy tutoring trip over to Mercer for ACED. Turned out the Phys 123 student was grappling with relativity equations we'd barely covered in the Honors Phys crash course, so it was a crazy experience. Managed (barely) to salvage some helpfulness before leaving to do yet more math :) Ate dinner at the Kebab Hut which was great. 
3. Math final tomorrow at 8:30! Better wake up fast, O my brain!

12/12/15

1. Saturday before finals week!
2. Slept in. Xin heated up a few waffles and dumplings--the waffles got cold, but I ate a few dumplings before going down to get a second breakfast.
3. Math review was really fun. It's going to be a hard final, but the sample problems are neat.
4. Worked on probability sample problems. 
5. Dinner with Xin and Brandon at Korean tofu house!
6. Badminton with Xin :) He's a bit astounding at how crafty I can be in a game context vs. how naive I am in real life :D
7. More work, responded to a bunch of emails, looked up research papers by this prof I want to contact about research next quarter.

12/9/15

1. Highlight of the day: Glee concert! It started out stressful--I was practicing and practicing, trying to nail down a few tricky parts, throughout the day, and there was this one awful moment when I was in the restroom, putting on my tie, and failing miserably. All the stress of Dead Week killed my system 1 and rendered me unable to tie my own tie. But after that, things brightened considerably. Singing was great--I messed up a little bit, but mostly held my own on some tricky parts while other tenors were struggling, think I had a net positive impact on the sound. Then we went to Schultzy's; talked a lot with Elizabeth our accompanist and Mike "Danger"', and his wife Liz. Very relaxing.
2. Other things that happened today: Endodontist appt. Basically ended up with the same prognosis I had 2 weeks ago, still waiting on more info to decide what to do. This prompted Dad to unleash a hailstorm of questions that I should have asked while I was being rushed through the endodontic process, and now am attempting to ask via email.
Also, I filled in Sam's office hours today, and I did really well. Managed to helpfully answer some subtle questions. This homework was ideally suited for me--not computationally challenging, logically pretty simple, but not easy to do without a sound grasp of the logic involved (that is, nothing shook out just from symbolic manipulation, etc.) Forgive my long, terribly phrased sentences--it's time to rest this brain and blow this conscious popsicle stand!

12/7/15

1. Worked on presentation for most of the morning, math, more presentation. It was fun, although I messed up the delivery a bit. 
2. Dragged tent over to SPS :)
3. 2 hours of tutoring! Was really helpful for Julia to look at simpler exam problems--misunderstandings were easier to isolate. 
4. Ate dinner with Brandon and played some frisbee. 
5. Looked at some interview questions for Amazon interview tomorrow.
6. Let's do this! Goodnight all!

12/6/15

1. Highlight: jumped into the lake at 7am with Eloise and Tommy from the floor. Eloise is crazy--she stayed in for almost a minute! But it wasn't nearly as bad as I thought. 
2. Otherwise, relaxing day--did 312 hw and some other little things, managed to eat all 3 meals in company, got some exercise in the McMahon courts. 

Backlog: 12/3/15

1. Highlight: meeting with Leslie for Lavin! Talked about various things, Lavin contract, entre classes, the Lavin seed fund.
2. Other things: Dinner with John! Ate and chatted about math and crazy bugs in Python. +Glee, math hw

Backlog: 12/4/15

1. Was up from 4:30 am doing math hw. Didn't quite finish in time--I had an argument that was clearly wrong.
2. But then got picked up by Dad! Grabbed Which Wich on the way down and talked about various things; the gargantuan stuff-moving ecosystem and warehouses south of seattle, and the possibilities for a math IDE.
3. Homeschool Christmas Party was awesome. Sleigh rides and dodgeball were bomb. EH sounded awesome on the violin. And of course bouncy ball Flyers Up :)
4. Went to dinner with Joseph and Noah at Rudy's.
5. Returned home, did grading and other work, and crashed.

12/5/15

1. Went to bagels with family! Then picked out paint colors for our (sisters and my) rooms, which must be painted before the carpets go in. 
2. Took a nice walk with my older sister. Good discussion. 
3. Awesome dinner at Fiamma Burger. 
4. Left on Bolt Bus with tent, got into Haggett by 11pm. Took a run and a shower, then watched the end of White Christmas with floormates. Awesome day!
5. 'Night all, Spencer

12/2/15

1. Highlight of the day: solving crazy math problem with Peter and Andrew. We went back and forth a bunch of times questioning each other's reasoning until we finally converged on a clean solution. 
2. Other things: took lunch to the SPS just for fun, ran into Chris. Managed to grade a good 70 instances of HW 6 #4 in only 90 minutes once I got into my groove. Xin is currently having a good time studying with a bunch of Chinese-speaking students on the floor, which is neat. Oh! And did 90 minutes of tutoring with physics student. 
3. Oh!! And this should be the highlight. Man, five hours ago, when I got a text from my homeschool homie Henry B. feels like yesterday already. He said he's in town for interview with game design school, wanted to meet up. After his interview (he's accepted!!) Henry, his dad Jeff, and I met up in Haggett, checked out my room, went down to the turf fields for some soccer and frisbee, then got some bubble tea and dinner. 
4. Yeah, solid day. If you're reading this from Bham, chances are I'll see you soon at the homeschool christmas party! Peace and joy to y'all!

1/12/15

1. Highlight: dinner and badminton with Xin and a dude from Whatcom, Josh. Cool guy.
2. Other things that happened today: office hours, glee, lots of work on 332 project.

11/30/15

1. Gotta get something down here, but I'm busy as Tartarus (as my Greek-mythology loving sister would say :))
2. Highlight: great SPS meeting. Interest in a theory exploration spinoff club, plus Jannel was nice enough to lend me the mathematical physics textbook :)
3. Other things: lotsa work, classes, incredibly vexing problem to grade, had to send a long email to the 311 staff asking for clarifications :)
Smile,
Spencer