4/13/16 (plus highlights of yesterday)

1. 4/13/16 (plus highlights of yesterday)
1. Yesterday:
2. Mentor-connect lunch with Lavin was incredibly interesting. I was totally won over by the CEO of this new dating site: http://www.siren.mobi/blog/
3. Also got to talk with Ayush a bit.
4. Terrific Glee rehearsal.
5. Met Alex for bubble tea after the busy day. We actually started at the 8, then migrated over to Oasis on the ave. We spent like 4 hours(!) in Oasis talking. Alex had found these “36 Questions”
6. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/open-gently/201310/36-questions-bring-you-closer-together
7. Intended to draw out revealing conversation. And boy, did they. Things got real meta, real fast. It was kinda scary. Both Alex and I are extremely open, heart-on-sleeve types :)
8. I walked over to Mercer with Alex, then walked back to Haggett in a bit of a daze of thought. On the way back, stopped at the physics building to relieve myself, saw that the light in the SPS lounge was still on. Checked in with Bearded Jacob and others struggling with 226 homework, met a new physicist Sylvia.
9. Crashed solidly.
10. Today:
11. Woke up and worked on 333 exercise. Then off to Math. Complex analysis continues to be amazing. Really neat stuff just pops out of nowhere. To take an incomprehensible example, suppose that f(z) is an analytic (differentiable) function--you can approximate it locally as its value at a point f(z0) plus a complex value (the derivative) times the deviation from the point f’(z0)*(z-z0). But this is COMPLEX multiply--makes everything crazy. Not a tangent line/plane, but some kinda tangent rotation and scale.
12. Anyway, given f is analytic, you know that the real and imaginary parts of f have families of level curves that are orthogonal to each other--you can draw neat plots of these families. I think it’s cool.
13. Other classes, then went to basketball free agent meeting. Found out the teams that needed people.
14. SPS meeting for like 15 minutes, then to HVZ mission. It was fun, but our team didn’t get much action defending our agent.
15. Worked for an hour, then off to swing class! More connection exercises, lots of fun.
16. Said hi to Alex at the Team Food meetup, then split off with Trevor since I had (have!) lots of work to do. Did a bit of frisbee with Trevor since the evening was so nice. Ate at the 8, then up to Haggett to do work.
17. Chatted with Ashleigh and a new girl Bran on this floor this quarter, a CS student back from a study abroad in Germany!
18. Got a little bit of work in before getting involved in a fairly deep and reflective, but also logistical, conversation with Xin. A conversation that I could imagine us having if, in some incomprehensible twist, we were dating. A Taylor & Tami kind of conversation, about planning and time but also about the ineffable essence of friendship. Jeez, how much of this can I handle? :D
19. So my hash table did NOT get done. I’ma pay for that tomorrow morning. But for now, I will trap into the kernel and sleep for a few hours. May the internal negotiations that define you be honest; filibuster not on the floor of the Senate of the mind. Goodnight!
20. Spencer