X-Git-Url: https://codewiz.org/gitweb?p=wiki.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=blog%2F2009%2F09;h=f1f968893311049ac3738935aed0013d492acb83;hp=9c5e6436dcdf7d096e9b653778374c3d33decfa5;hb=3e95ffc6a408d0149535225a85d11c06740962e3;hpb=4fbb46c3658a62d71255ef6932027efbfe892076 diff --git a/blog/2009/09 b/blog/2009/09 index 9c5e643..f1f9688 100644 --- a/blog/2009/09 +++ b/blog/2009/09 @@ -1,8 +1,16 @@ == Bernie's brain dump as of September 2009 == +=== Sep 5th: Goodbye Aids === + +My housemate [[Adelaida]] (aka Aids for reasons we don't care to know) +is going back to Hampshire college tomorrow so we organized a great +party at the [[Acetarium]]. + +Photos here: [[pictures/party/Goodbye_Adelaida_2009]] + === Sep 3rd: Calculus === -{{HarvardHannenbergHall.jpg}} +{{HarvardHannenbergHall.jpg|maxwidth=640|Hannenberg Hall @ Harvard}} Ok, today it was precalculus. I arrived on time, but I still had no paper with me, so I had to ask to someone next to me for a bunch of sheets. Quickly filling up a dozen of pages with @@ -23,14 +31,14 @@ I have one week left to change my course plan without loosing any money. === Sep 1st: Back to school === -{{HarvardYard.jpg}} +{{HarvardYard.jpg|maxwidth=800|The Harvard Yard}} Today I attended my first class of **discrete matematics** (E-104). I was too optimistic in estimating the -time to bike from the FSF to the Harvard Science Center, and as a result I arrived 5 minutes +time it takes to bike from the FSF to the Harvard Science Center, and as a result I arrived 5 minutes too late. Next, I entered the wrong classroom, and it took me another 5 minutes to figure out that kinetic laws had nothing to do with my course. -When I finally got sited in the correct classroom, I realized I had no paper! So I started +When I finally got seated in the correct classroom, I realized I had no paper! So I started taking notes on my laptop, but I was really the only one doing so. Not much because it's not customary for Harvard, but mostly because ASCII is not very well suited for writing math. Luckily, the first class was about logic operations, whose notation is very easy to transcribe