| this morning: 13.1 miles 1:56.26 half dead - [insert random complaint about hills] |
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| "Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimenisions." -Oliver Wendell Holmes. So true. Ok, so back to the books. |
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| this morning: 13.1 miles 1:52.10 happy :) |
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| ...from my latest adventure this afternoon where I suggested to my Taiwanese house-mate Joey that we should go hike to the top of one of the nearby mountains instead of study for finals... and so we did. Apparently he thought that hiking to the top of a mountain meant he should bring two extra shirts, a fleece top, fleece lined hiking pants, and a thick outer jacket. I was wondering what he had put into his bulging backpack! Oh, and one can't forget the boiling hot water he poured into his insulated thermos just before we left in case he needed something hot to drink to stave off hypothermia. We were laughing about it the whole way down. I guess he momentarily forgot that we don't live in Russia... 
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| Ok. So this was weird. Last lecture of the quarter: my advanced dynamics of vibrations instructor derived Lagrange's equations yesterday in class. Don't worry, if you are way too curious and you Google that and none of it makes any sense, you're in the same boat as most of our class. I was actually so far gone that I tuned out and started making notes and sketches for some Master's research concepts in steel design... And then the prof said at the end of class, at the very end of lecture "I just made a mistake in the derivation, if any of you can find it and come to my office within the next two hours, you don't have to take my final." Those were the only words I heard the entire 80 minutes. Seriously. So I borrowed a friend's notes. Me and 2/3 of the class. We all camped outside his office for two hours trying to find his mistake, 20 of us. We all thought he'd done something majorly in error, but couldn't find anything wrong with his work at all... except one extremely minor missing negative sign in the very last step. It's like having your teacher spend all year teaching you trig, and then on the last day of class say "instant A to anyone who can find my mistake" and he added 2+2=0. Anyone else super excited about winter break!?! I can't wait, it's going to be a lot of fun. |
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