4/27/16

1. 4/27/16
1. Woke up, had a very pleasant and productive morning in part thanks to figuring out quickly what I had done wrong in the C++ exercise of the preceding night, and partly thanks to doing my 7 min exercises for the morning :D
2. Went to math. I’m starting to feel like that grad student sitting at the front of a QFT class, no notes, trying to imagine a universe described by a mattress of springs described by some arcane equations. I feel like I’ve lost my intuitive handle on what complex analytic functions are--everything is mediated by this layer of theorems that on paper are really simple and elegant, but feel as unintuitive as the axioms of quantum mechanics :P
3. Thermal Physics--STILL mostly review. I may have to start taking things somewhat seriously for the upcoming midterm though :D
4. Accounting--interesting but really slow. Spent half the time reading articles :D
5. Got some exercise in McMahon gyms, made lunchbox poster, went to SPS meeting. Turns out department is having a BBQ (yay!) which means we’ll have to plan our tentative barbeque around it (mrrh…). Basically worked on inverted index for systems. Took a quick break to sign a frisbee that Eleonore had bought for a Swing Kid.
6. Went to intermediate lessons! Worked on more fundamentals, actually felt very useful. Afterwards, went to Team Food at Mongolian Grill. Talked a long time with Alex, Trevor, and Eleonore--probably longer than was prudent :) Walked back to West Campus with Alex and Trevor, then to CSE for a few hours of work. Made it past a few tests with my index before hitting strange behavior, so pivoted to math. Struggled with lack of intuition on things which I thought ought to be intuitive. Hmm.
7. Wrote this journal entry and back to Haggett for sleep! Good night all!