1. UW
Update 1/25/15
a. Slept
in. Did some more brainstorming for teaching puzzle.
b. Went
to Jewel of India lunch buffet; met Rishabh from last quarter’s education
class. I had facebook-messaged the education class group, and he responded.
c. We
talked about a lot of different things, TV shows, class readings, schedules,
scholarships. Rishabh and a few friends had written an app to automate
ordering, communications with staff at restaurants, and was beta-testing it at
a family friend’s restaurant. He was also taking 23 credits and holding down a
part-time job as a credit analyst (which he described as a sinecure within a
fat and happy company).
d. Returned
to dorm and got picked up by family, who were visiting Seattle. We took a walk
along the water. I talked with Izzy about mythology, having just read a bit of
the Odyssey for my cow class.
e. Then
we went to visit our friend, who had moved from the Children’s Hospital to
another hospital downtown. She was doing very well today, and greeted us with
smiles and hugs. The room we visited her in had an awesome view across Seattle,
and lots of rolling chairs. We improvised a game of chair Ultimate/Basketball with
the chairs, which was pretty neat. I talked with another visitor, who was
studying at Western and had also applied to be a RA.
f. We
ate dinner afterwards at Pagliacci’s, which was a bit ironic, since I get
pagliacci’s frequently in our cafeteria, but it was good.
g. Family
dropped me off at the dorm with a new coat and some oatmeal; we said goodbye,
and I made a list of midterm topics for my teaching class. Then I grabbed some
ice cream at Rick’s and hung out with Brandon. He’d asked me to take a look at
some hw problems involving circuits, but as usual with Brandon, he was less
interested in solving the problems than with developing an intuitive
understanding of the phenomena, which is cool. We honed our understanding of
circuits with multiple batteries (Did you know, if you connect a battery in parallel
with another battery with a different voltage, you can heat and potentially
blow up both batteries since the current flows in a loop across the battery
with greater voltage through the battery with lesser voltage in the opposite direction?)
h.
Returned to dorm and researched for Cow class
paper. Wrote this log, took a short walk, and went to bed.
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