This paper was about the effect that the shape of a drug can have on its ability to deliver its 'payload' to its target. In this case, they were looking specifically at cell adhesion rates (and the effects of that adhesion on cell monolayer integrity) between a few different chemicals: tomato lectin polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) microspheres versus flat microdevices and regular old PMMA MS's versus MD's. The idea was that a sphere is going to have a lot of unused surface area, so the flat microdevices should be a more efficient way of delivering the drug. The tomato lectin was there to target the PMMA to the cells (free TL had been shown to do this, previously). So this idea is pretty logical, and the effects were pretty much what you'd expect.
I thought it was interesting that geometry had such a strong effect on adhesion, and therefore on drug delivery. It's an insightful concept, and it makes sense. I thought the sustained adhesion was particularly telling: the TL-PMMA microdevices showed a constant %-bound over two consecutive washes, whereas the TL-PMMA microspheres showed a fairly steep linear decline.
Cool stuff. Underscores the importance of intelligent drug design, rather than just saturation bombing and hoping for the best.
Monday, January 29, 2007
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Destressification
So apparently I've been accepted to UC Santa Barbara prior to the interview! This is completely unexpected, but I'm elated nonetheless. UCSB is not my top choice for grad school, but it's great to know that even if I completely bungle all the interviews and am roundly despised everywhere I go, I already have been accepted at this school.
Woo!
Stress...melting away...
This is really good; it will keep me from being so damn nervous at my UCSF interview. If I don't get into UCSF and don't get any other interview offers, I'm not sure whether I would pick UCSB over ASU. I guess I'll have to base it on the interview process. I think UCSB is ranked slightly better than ASU, but I know there's interesting research going on at both places.
Anyway...woo! Yet another reason to celebrate tomorrow at Utage with Lisa. Heh heh.
Woo!
Stress...melting away...
This is really good; it will keep me from being so damn nervous at my UCSF interview. If I don't get into UCSF and don't get any other interview offers, I'm not sure whether I would pick UCSB over ASU. I guess I'll have to base it on the interview process. I think UCSB is ranked slightly better than ASU, but I know there's interesting research going on at both places.
Anyway...woo! Yet another reason to celebrate tomorrow at Utage with Lisa. Heh heh.
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Interviews!
I just found out today that I got interviews at both UC Santa Barbara and Arizona State University! Hell yes! Even if I wasn't super excited about the prospect of going to either of those places, this rocks because it relieves a lot of the pressure on the UCSF interview coming up in a couple of weeks.
Woo!
Woo!
Sunday, January 21, 2007
Mages, cakewalks, etc.
Here are a couple of things I figured out yesterday:
1. There is, in fact, no way to make male blood elves look non-gay. (This is not, of course, intended as any disrespect towards actual gay people. However, if the choice is between playing a gay man or a woman in a virtual world, I'm afraid I must go with the woman.)
2. Mages are not fun to play.
This second thing is particularly disappointing to me, since I had high hopes for the class. But I (again) got to level 8, and realized...this isn't fun. I think the reason playing a mage-type characters in NWN and D2 was so much fun was because you could charge around while you were slinging spells, herding guys up and unleashing the fury on them. It was fun the way playing Quake with the rocket launcher was fun. But in WoW, you can't run faster than the enemies anyway, and you have to stand still while you're casting most of your spells, or they get interrupted! So there's no 'keep-moving-to-stay-alive' aspect of playing. In fact, there didn't seem to be a large 'stay-alive' aspect of playing at all, for that matter. My mage, an unfortunate blood elf named Trestle (yes, like a trestle table), died quite a lot.
So, I'm trying to decide what to do about this. I'm resolved to play this game at least for a month, or I will feel hardcore shafted by Blizzard. $55. Blah. I played my Paladin again for a while. She's alright. I've been trying to view her in the same light I did Reskar; I'm sort of hoping I can pull a story out of her. The real trouble is that the plot of WoW that you can participate in is so sparse that there's really nothing to fashion a character around; she's still just my awkwardly-female avatar. She's rather fetching, though, I suppose, and more pleasing to watch than the backside of an 8-foot-tall bipedal cow.
One thing that's been kind of disappointing is that I was going to play this game with my roommate, but it turns out he's been playing like 8 hours a day, every day, so of course his character is already level 20-something, and I'm not even 10 yet. So I think playing with him is not really going to be in the cards. A few of my friends at work play, too, but they're all also extremely high level.
I guess I'm going to cancel my subscription after 1 month. It's been a frustrating month for me, video-game-wise. First NWN2 was a massive disappointment, now this. Ah well, I guess there's always Three Towns, right? (And Civ 4 continues to rock.)
It's funny that I'm devoting so much thought to what video games to play, lately. I guess it's a testament to how much easier this semester is, so far, that I have time to think about stuff like this. I guess one thing about doing physics is that it makes everything else look pretty easy. (With the notable exception of Jake's insanely complicated quantitative genetics problems. Turns out I made some pretty serious errors in that analysis, and I need to get cracking on correcting them. Been waiting until I got over my infection, but I guess now that I'm feeling mostly better, I'm all out of excuses...) I figured my mathematical biology and bioinformatics classes would be pretty challenging, for example, and while they're interesting, so far it's a bit of a cakewalk. Quantum Mechanics II, though, is really difficult. (I guess that's not totally unexpected...) Since it's my only class, I'm able to spend adequate time on it that it's not such a huge deal, but still...my first homework assignment is due this Tuesday, and some of these problems are just ridiculous.
Well, I've got my Rockstar in hand (since Jittery Joe's isn't open until 1:00 on Sundays...what's up with that?), so I guess it's time to crank through another QM problem. Nothing like finding eigenvalues and eigenfunctions for coupled quantum oscillators to start off your day, particularly when followed by the promise of an impossible-to-understand quantitative genetics analysis!
1. There is, in fact, no way to make male blood elves look non-gay. (This is not, of course, intended as any disrespect towards actual gay people. However, if the choice is between playing a gay man or a woman in a virtual world, I'm afraid I must go with the woman.)
2. Mages are not fun to play.
This second thing is particularly disappointing to me, since I had high hopes for the class. But I (again) got to level 8, and realized...this isn't fun. I think the reason playing a mage-type characters in NWN and D2 was so much fun was because you could charge around while you were slinging spells, herding guys up and unleashing the fury on them. It was fun the way playing Quake with the rocket launcher was fun. But in WoW, you can't run faster than the enemies anyway, and you have to stand still while you're casting most of your spells, or they get interrupted! So there's no 'keep-moving-to-stay-alive' aspect of playing. In fact, there didn't seem to be a large 'stay-alive' aspect of playing at all, for that matter. My mage, an unfortunate blood elf named Trestle (yes, like a trestle table), died quite a lot.
So, I'm trying to decide what to do about this. I'm resolved to play this game at least for a month, or I will feel hardcore shafted by Blizzard. $55. Blah. I played my Paladin again for a while. She's alright. I've been trying to view her in the same light I did Reskar; I'm sort of hoping I can pull a story out of her. The real trouble is that the plot of WoW that you can participate in is so sparse that there's really nothing to fashion a character around; she's still just my awkwardly-female avatar. She's rather fetching, though, I suppose, and more pleasing to watch than the backside of an 8-foot-tall bipedal cow.
One thing that's been kind of disappointing is that I was going to play this game with my roommate, but it turns out he's been playing like 8 hours a day, every day, so of course his character is already level 20-something, and I'm not even 10 yet. So I think playing with him is not really going to be in the cards. A few of my friends at work play, too, but they're all also extremely high level.
I guess I'm going to cancel my subscription after 1 month. It's been a frustrating month for me, video-game-wise. First NWN2 was a massive disappointment, now this. Ah well, I guess there's always Three Towns, right? (And Civ 4 continues to rock.)
It's funny that I'm devoting so much thought to what video games to play, lately. I guess it's a testament to how much easier this semester is, so far, that I have time to think about stuff like this. I guess one thing about doing physics is that it makes everything else look pretty easy. (With the notable exception of Jake's insanely complicated quantitative genetics problems. Turns out I made some pretty serious errors in that analysis, and I need to get cracking on correcting them. Been waiting until I got over my infection, but I guess now that I'm feeling mostly better, I'm all out of excuses...) I figured my mathematical biology and bioinformatics classes would be pretty challenging, for example, and while they're interesting, so far it's a bit of a cakewalk. Quantum Mechanics II, though, is really difficult. (I guess that's not totally unexpected...) Since it's my only class, I'm able to spend adequate time on it that it's not such a huge deal, but still...my first homework assignment is due this Tuesday, and some of these problems are just ridiculous.
Well, I've got my Rockstar in hand (since Jittery Joe's isn't open until 1:00 on Sundays...what's up with that?), so I guess it's time to crank through another QM problem. Nothing like finding eigenvalues and eigenfunctions for coupled quantum oscillators to start off your day, particularly when followed by the promise of an impossible-to-understand quantitative genetics analysis!
Saturday, January 20, 2007
So, humans are cool
So, I'm at work again. Expect to see these five words quite a lot this semester; I managed to pick up 39 regular hours, so I'll be at the SLC almost all the time.
Saturdays are boring. I work on the Digital Media wing of the building on Saturdays, and while generally Saturdays are pretty empty, nobody comes to this wing of the building. I might see 10 people all day. During the beginning of the semester, it's particularly slow. But I suppose I don't mind boring. It means I can sit here and think, or read, or blog, or do homework, without interruption. As usual, can't complain about my job, although I am not shy about damning it with faint praise, of course.
I went out to Gamestop and picked up a copy of the World of Warcraft expansion, The Burning Crusade. I kept hearing about how wonderful it was from all and sundry (including one of my bosses at work, who, as I can testify to, is thoroughly obsessed with the game), so I figured, I must be missing out! Although I did quit the original game some time ago, primarily out of boredom. It was fun for about a month and a half, though, so that was something. I figured I'd get at least that much of a kick out of the new one. I was also interested to start a female blood elf character, and test out the 'Reskar-effect' that I rambled about at some length yesterday.
So, I created a male and female blood elf character, just to check out the new models. I want to know: who decided that the male blood elves would look the way they do? I mean, I'm just askin'. I ran away from these extremely flamboyant dudes faster than you can say 'sex change.' Colin mentioned that he had started a female character because he figured he'd prefer to play a woman than a gay man, and I see what he means. The female character, by contrast, had a willowy, almost waifish appearance, and I gave her the sternest of a set of soft faces. I made her a Paladin and set off. Her name is Raiel, a name I created for a story a long time ago, but never really used (pronounced rye-ELL).
The first thing I noticed was that, in spite of my good intentions, it makes me vaguely uncomfortable to play a female character in an online game like this. I know no one assumes that a woman is necessarily playing just because the avatar is female, but still, it felt odd. Much moreso in a game like this than in say, NWN's single-player OC, I really feel like my character represents me, and a petite blonde elf chick is, to say the least, a strange representative of me.
I leveled Raiel up to the modest perch of 8. I guess you can get a bit of a feel for a class in 8 levels. And I have to say...so far, I find playing a Paladin to be singularly uninteresting. To be fair, I've never really played a Paladin-type class in these sorts of games before (which was the main reason I wanted to try it, actually); I'm much more a fan of engine-of-destruction type builds. (My five (good God, I've done 5? I'm such a dork) reasonably high-level 3T characters right now, for example, are two katana-wielding brawlers, a greatsword weapon master, and two death-magic focused Sorcerers. In Diablo 2, I played a frost ball spamming Sorceress. And so on.) In my view, Paladins in WoW are basically warriors with some cool buffs, and with all of the nice combat feats removed. Or, another way of putting it: healers with some armor and a sword, but really very little affinity for swinging that sword. Plus there's about a gazillion newly-minted blood elf paladins.
So, I'm a little disappointed. Having dumped $55 on this game (expansion + subscription), however, I am certainly not going to give up yet. I think probably the last thing I will try is to make a blood elf mage. Probably a fire-mage-type build, and see how much I like a crazy-DPS character.
My quandary is this...what gender character do I use? The only other racial options for a Horde mage are troll and undead, and who the hell wants to be one of those things? Maybe if I really messed around with the limited character-appearance customization settings, I could make an acceptable blood elf guy. That'd be nice. There's at least one option I noticed for blood elf males that gives you some crazy Son Goku hair. A Goku-looking engine of destruction? Well...I guess I could do a lot worse. I'd name him Mojo, but $100 says that name isn't available! Maybe Gojo, after that awesome anti-grease handwashing stuff.
Saturdays are boring. I work on the Digital Media wing of the building on Saturdays, and while generally Saturdays are pretty empty, nobody comes to this wing of the building. I might see 10 people all day. During the beginning of the semester, it's particularly slow. But I suppose I don't mind boring. It means I can sit here and think, or read, or blog, or do homework, without interruption. As usual, can't complain about my job, although I am not shy about damning it with faint praise, of course.
I went out to Gamestop and picked up a copy of the World of Warcraft expansion, The Burning Crusade. I kept hearing about how wonderful it was from all and sundry (including one of my bosses at work, who, as I can testify to, is thoroughly obsessed with the game), so I figured, I must be missing out! Although I did quit the original game some time ago, primarily out of boredom. It was fun for about a month and a half, though, so that was something. I figured I'd get at least that much of a kick out of the new one. I was also interested to start a female blood elf character, and test out the 'Reskar-effect' that I rambled about at some length yesterday.
So, I created a male and female blood elf character, just to check out the new models. I want to know: who decided that the male blood elves would look the way they do? I mean, I'm just askin'. I ran away from these extremely flamboyant dudes faster than you can say 'sex change.' Colin mentioned that he had started a female character because he figured he'd prefer to play a woman than a gay man, and I see what he means. The female character, by contrast, had a willowy, almost waifish appearance, and I gave her the sternest of a set of soft faces. I made her a Paladin and set off. Her name is Raiel, a name I created for a story a long time ago, but never really used (pronounced rye-ELL).
The first thing I noticed was that, in spite of my good intentions, it makes me vaguely uncomfortable to play a female character in an online game like this. I know no one assumes that a woman is necessarily playing just because the avatar is female, but still, it felt odd. Much moreso in a game like this than in say, NWN's single-player OC, I really feel like my character represents me, and a petite blonde elf chick is, to say the least, a strange representative of me.
I leveled Raiel up to the modest perch of 8. I guess you can get a bit of a feel for a class in 8 levels. And I have to say...so far, I find playing a Paladin to be singularly uninteresting. To be fair, I've never really played a Paladin-type class in these sorts of games before (which was the main reason I wanted to try it, actually); I'm much more a fan of engine-of-destruction type builds. (My five (good God, I've done 5? I'm such a dork) reasonably high-level 3T characters right now, for example, are two katana-wielding brawlers, a greatsword weapon master, and two death-magic focused Sorcerers. In Diablo 2, I played a frost ball spamming Sorceress. And so on.) In my view, Paladins in WoW are basically warriors with some cool buffs, and with all of the nice combat feats removed. Or, another way of putting it: healers with some armor and a sword, but really very little affinity for swinging that sword. Plus there's about a gazillion newly-minted blood elf paladins.
So, I'm a little disappointed. Having dumped $55 on this game (expansion + subscription), however, I am certainly not going to give up yet. I think probably the last thing I will try is to make a blood elf mage. Probably a fire-mage-type build, and see how much I like a crazy-DPS character.
My quandary is this...what gender character do I use? The only other racial options for a Horde mage are troll and undead, and who the hell wants to be one of those things? Maybe if I really messed around with the limited character-appearance customization settings, I could make an acceptable blood elf guy. That'd be nice. There's at least one option I noticed for blood elf males that gives you some crazy Son Goku hair. A Goku-looking engine of destruction? Well...I guess I could do a lot worse. I'd name him Mojo, but $100 says that name isn't available! Maybe Gojo, after that awesome anti-grease handwashing stuff.
Friday, January 19, 2007
Sadly I can't actually throw fireballs
I am just getting over (with the aid of much penicillin) a nasty bout of some bacterial infection that was apparently not strep throat, but might as well have been. It's nice to finally be on the upswing again. I've been a mess for the past week!
So, here's something random I've been giving way too much thought. Colin bought the new World of Warcraft expansion pack, Burning Crusade, and started a female character. I spent some time making fun of him, naturally, and then got to thinking about it. While I've never tried playing a female character in an online game before, I remember I did once in the single-player Neverwinter Nights original campaign (OC). What's more, what I consider one of my better pieces of writing, a short story called Thirty-Eight Swords, was inspired more-or-less directly by this character, Reskar. What's unusual about this is that NWN's OC is not particularly inspiring or interesting, and it's very odd that it was that campaign, of all things, that sparked a story. But here's the thing: in every other game I've played, I've naturally enough played a male character, and have pretty much just thought of my character as an extension of myself - i.e., well, that's me, if I could throw fireballs, or whatever. But I think by playing Reskar, I removed that 'this is my avatar' aspect of the game, and she became a character unto herself: a person, a Barbarian woman, actually, with a potentially interesting backstory and personality. Her motivations and goals were something more than George with a sword writ large, and this is what enabled a tale to form, and the creation of a character who was, in my own opinion, probably the most interesting and well-developed personality that I've ever written down.
I've decided to pick up a copy of Burning Crusade -- I suppose Colin takes a bit of the blame for this, but essentially I'm just bored of the games I currently am playing, and haven't ever really exhibited the kind of, shall we say, fanatical devotion that causes some people to spend way too much time playing this game.
With this odd revelation in mind (and also because I'd really like to play one of the new Horde Paladins, and let's face it, the male Blood Elves are pretty much the epitome of uncool), I've made the odd choice to begin a female character in an online game.
Let the mockery commence! It's a small price to pay for inspiration. (The monthly fee, on the other hand...not such a small price to pay.)
So, here's something random I've been giving way too much thought. Colin bought the new World of Warcraft expansion pack, Burning Crusade, and started a female character. I spent some time making fun of him, naturally, and then got to thinking about it. While I've never tried playing a female character in an online game before, I remember I did once in the single-player Neverwinter Nights original campaign (OC). What's more, what I consider one of my better pieces of writing, a short story called Thirty-Eight Swords, was inspired more-or-less directly by this character, Reskar. What's unusual about this is that NWN's OC is not particularly inspiring or interesting, and it's very odd that it was that campaign, of all things, that sparked a story. But here's the thing: in every other game I've played, I've naturally enough played a male character, and have pretty much just thought of my character as an extension of myself - i.e., well, that's me, if I could throw fireballs, or whatever. But I think by playing Reskar, I removed that 'this is my avatar' aspect of the game, and she became a character unto herself: a person, a Barbarian woman, actually, with a potentially interesting backstory and personality. Her motivations and goals were something more than George with a sword writ large, and this is what enabled a tale to form, and the creation of a character who was, in my own opinion, probably the most interesting and well-developed personality that I've ever written down.
I've decided to pick up a copy of Burning Crusade -- I suppose Colin takes a bit of the blame for this, but essentially I'm just bored of the games I currently am playing, and haven't ever really exhibited the kind of, shall we say, fanatical devotion that causes some people to spend way too much time playing this game.
With this odd revelation in mind (and also because I'd really like to play one of the new Horde Paladins, and let's face it, the male Blood Elves are pretty much the epitome of uncool), I've made the odd choice to begin a female character in an online game.
Let the mockery commence! It's a small price to pay for inspiration. (The monthly fee, on the other hand...not such a small price to pay.)
Sunday, January 14, 2007
Pwned by QM
So apparently if you take 3 weeks off from doing quantum mechanics, all of your hard-won knowledge and skill goes into the toilet.
Either that, or Quantum II is taking things to a whole nother level.
Crap.
Either that, or Quantum II is taking things to a whole nother level.
Crap.
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Now just sitting...
So, I'm just sitting at work, hanging out. I really ought to crack a book or something. I've got some quantum HW I ought to get started on.
But instead...I'm just chillin.
Hm.
But instead...I'm just chillin.
Hm.
Sitting in
So I'm just taking the 1 class I need to graduate this semester (Quantum II), and sit in on the other two (Math Biology, Bioinformatics) that I've been signed up for. Actually got permission for this, believe it or not!
So this is good, on several fronts -- 1) I don't have to pay for these classes, and I'm mostly broke (and maybe my parents would pay for them, but they can't really afford it either, to be honest), 2) I get to learn the material in the classes, which I was definitely wanting to do, and 3) I don't have to stress over them, because I'm just trying to learn for my own benefit, and I can just use their exams as a way to genuinely measure how I'm doing. Crazy thought, that.
Still haven't heard back from any other graduate schools besides UCSF. I actually looked in the US News grad school rankings the other day when I was at Borders, and noticed that for the field I applied for (biophysics), UCSF is actually ranked #5 in the country, behind Stanford, Harvard, MIT, and Berkeley. So, of the schools of which I would say I have a realistic chance of getting in to, I guess UCSF would be my top choice.
More pressure for the interview! Whee.
In other news, Colin interviewed me last night with his fancy new camera...and I discovered that I look like an utter douche. I guess I like...need a haircut, or a shave, or something. Or possibly a new face.
Time for this meeting at work. Joy.
So this is good, on several fronts -- 1) I don't have to pay for these classes, and I'm mostly broke (and maybe my parents would pay for them, but they can't really afford it either, to be honest), 2) I get to learn the material in the classes, which I was definitely wanting to do, and 3) I don't have to stress over them, because I'm just trying to learn for my own benefit, and I can just use their exams as a way to genuinely measure how I'm doing. Crazy thought, that.
Still haven't heard back from any other graduate schools besides UCSF. I actually looked in the US News grad school rankings the other day when I was at Borders, and noticed that for the field I applied for (biophysics), UCSF is actually ranked #5 in the country, behind Stanford, Harvard, MIT, and Berkeley. So, of the schools of which I would say I have a realistic chance of getting in to, I guess UCSF would be my top choice.
More pressure for the interview! Whee.
In other news, Colin interviewed me last night with his fancy new camera...and I discovered that I look like an utter douche. I guess I like...need a haircut, or a shave, or something. Or possibly a new face.
Time for this meeting at work. Joy.
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
Blah
I have to work at 8 am tomorrow...
I am going to have trouble falling asleep.
I am going to have trouble getting up.
Argh.
I am going to have trouble falling asleep.
I am going to have trouble getting up.
Argh.
Sunday, January 07, 2007
Just fumbling along...
So Betsy kinda-sorta agreed to go on a date with me... It was a little roundabout; when I first asked her, she said no, because she said that she wasn't in a stable place in her life, didn't want to get involved in a relationship, etc. etc., but when I told her that I was just interested in sort of a casual date (hell, I'm probably moving across the country in six months anyway...not like I want anything serious!), she agreed.
So...not really sure how to approach this. I guess I'm just gonna take her out to dinner, or something, and see how that develops. It's good that we're both on the same wavelength about not wanting anything serious, though...
On another note, I finished up that report (Word's Equation Editor SUCKS, incidentally) and sent it in to Jake...so hopefully he will pronounce my methods to be wonderful, and I can commence with producing huge sets of vectors, and then hopefully getting another paper published. Woo!
So...not really sure how to approach this. I guess I'm just gonna take her out to dinner, or something, and see how that develops. It's good that we're both on the same wavelength about not wanting anything serious, though...
On another note, I finished up that report (Word's Equation Editor SUCKS, incidentally) and sent it in to Jake...so hopefully he will pronounce my methods to be wonderful, and I can commence with producing huge sets of vectors, and then hopefully getting another paper published. Woo!
Saturday, January 06, 2007
So far this year
Well...back at work again. Dang.
Turns out that while I did not precisely screw up the code I sent Jake, he has asked me to prepare a more extensive verbal explanation of what I did...which, reading between the lines, I think means that my code was so weird and opaque as to be completely indecipherable.
Ah well.
So I'm cranking through that now, hopefully I can have that done before Monday, when classes start again. I have to say...writing descriptions of stuff that's basically just piles and piles of math is not particularly fun. I mean, obviously I have to say something more profound then, So here I set the limits of integration to be 0 and infinity, and integrated over blah and blah..., but... Well maybe my understanding of the quantitative genetics is a bit lacking...which would make sense, since I've never had a course in quantitative genetics.
So, NWN2 sucks so far. I'm gonna shelve it until it's patched a few more times, and then probably give it one more shot.
And btw...I got an interview at UC San Francisco!! Hell YES! I'm super excited about this. UCSF probably isn't my top choice for grad school, but it's a good school in a good location, so I'd be 100% satisfied if I got accepted there. I've got my interview either February 9-10 or February 15-16, and they're paying for my flight out there, booking me in a hotel, etc. I'm really looking forward to it. I understand that getting the interview is like three fourths of the battle, too...so I have high hopes for getting in! Keeping my fingers crossed for this, and hopefully some more interview opportunities will present themselves soon...
Oh and this was pretty awesome...over New Years I went to see the peach drop in downtown Atlanta, and I met this incredibly pretty girl. She had this really great hot-without-trying-to-be thing going on...think like the hottest girl on your high school soccer team or something. Which is awesome. She was one of those girls where it's like...naw, she would never be into me, she's too fine. But she was! (And get this...she plays Starcraft! How wild is that?) So I've asked her on a date, even though she lives basically halfway across the state. Keeping my fingers crossed for that, too!
Turns out that while I did not precisely screw up the code I sent Jake, he has asked me to prepare a more extensive verbal explanation of what I did...which, reading between the lines, I think means that my code was so weird and opaque as to be completely indecipherable.
Ah well.
So I'm cranking through that now, hopefully I can have that done before Monday, when classes start again. I have to say...writing descriptions of stuff that's basically just piles and piles of math is not particularly fun. I mean, obviously I have to say something more profound then, So here I set the limits of integration to be 0 and infinity, and integrated over blah and blah..., but... Well maybe my understanding of the quantitative genetics is a bit lacking...which would make sense, since I've never had a course in quantitative genetics.
So, NWN2 sucks so far. I'm gonna shelve it until it's patched a few more times, and then probably give it one more shot.
And btw...I got an interview at UC San Francisco!! Hell YES! I'm super excited about this. UCSF probably isn't my top choice for grad school, but it's a good school in a good location, so I'd be 100% satisfied if I got accepted there. I've got my interview either February 9-10 or February 15-16, and they're paying for my flight out there, booking me in a hotel, etc. I'm really looking forward to it. I understand that getting the interview is like three fourths of the battle, too...so I have high hopes for getting in! Keeping my fingers crossed for this, and hopefully some more interview opportunities will present themselves soon...
Oh and this was pretty awesome...over New Years I went to see the peach drop in downtown Atlanta, and I met this incredibly pretty girl. She had this really great hot-without-trying-to-be thing going on...think like the hottest girl on your high school soccer team or something. Which is awesome. She was one of those girls where it's like...naw, she would never be into me, she's too fine. But she was! (And get this...she plays Starcraft! How wild is that?) So I've asked her on a date, even though she lives basically halfway across the state. Keeping my fingers crossed for that, too!
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