1. UW
Update Wednesday 4/8/15
a. Another
Leroy day! The past seven days have been among the most interesting and
exciting days of the entire UW journey.
b. Woke,
grabbed a banana and moved out. Physics: looked at quantum effects on
macroscopic effects, reviewed strange connections to relativity and
relativistic momentum (apparently reflects that matter and energy are but two
aspects of the same thing).
c. Linear:
Very boring lecture on vectors (just because I’d seen it all twice before, in
Calc 3 and Physics). All my exploring/broadening tricks to stay alert were to
no avail, and I went into a strange mode. Everything faded into the background
a bit. We had our first quiz—easy, but very little time. I made one mistake in
the calculation, didn’t have time to correct it, but asserted I knew I made it.
d. Returned
to the physics complex for lab. The lab was actually super cool. We had a
frequency generator and a string under tension from some weights, and basically
messed with all the parameters to see what would happen.
e. Signed
up for Humans vs. Zombies in the quad (finally!)
f. CSE311.
We talked about predicate logic, with objects within domains as variables.
Statements like There exists X for all Y such that X is prime and X is greater
than Y (a calculus-like expression of the idea that there are infinitely many
primes).
g. Ate
lunch with Johan and one of his buddies, Abusheik. Abusheik was planning a
startup in India with his fashion-designer sister to make customized dresses in
20 minutes. Order, get automatically fitted, and 20min later, out comes your
party dress! Pretty interesting. Talked about different aspects of the
business. Abusheik’s biggest technical problem was to program a sewing machine
that could deliver consistent, “seamless” work.
h. Returned
to dorm. Picked up my shin guards, put them on and my cleats. Got my stuff
together and headed to the IMA fields. Met the Free Agents, stretched a bit.
Actually volunteered to play keeper since nobody else felt up to it. The game
was a lot of fun, although we lost 1-3 (mostly due to strategy issues J). I think everybody
liked my aggressive keeper style, even though I missed a few shots.
i. Returned
to dorm, did a bunch of maintenance stuff.
j. Went
on a run with Johan to Laurelhurst. Got into a long discussion about inequality
that segued into a discussion of education through Johan’s tutoring job that
focused on wealthy students. Lost any hope of going to the HSAP Game Night,
which was fine. We both showered, then tried to get dinner at the 8, but Johan
didn’t realize only Pagliacci’s was open. So we went to the Ave. SomTamThai was
sadly closed, so we ended up eating at this crazy place called Hawaii BBQ. So
much (extravagantly fried) food, and well-priced!
k. I
sprinted along Johan’s bike to the CS labs, where Johan finished his homework.
I continued trying to set up Git, and got quite a shock when I messed up a
command line command and deleted the Mac’s Pictures directory! Fortunately
everything was backed up in OneDrive. Continued figuring out exactly what not to do with Git, and resolved to talk
to Issa to figure out how he did things.
l. Returned
to dorm. Johan had pitched this crazy idea of running a math/CS camp over part
of the summer, using his tutoring connections, which I liked, and we chatted
for a bit, wondering if there was any way to integrate the idea with my plans
to do homeschool classes over the summer.
m.
Bought my Bolt Bus ticket home for Friday, dealt
with email (sent Johan articles), wrote this log, and went to bed (way too
late!).
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