|
samkung
|
read my profile
sign my guestbook
Name: Sam
Country: United States
State: Virginia
Birthday: 5/22/1984
Gender: Male
Interests: I love music and photography, but have no time to pursue either.
Expertise: Not an expert on anything, yet.
Occupation: Student
Message: message me
Member Since:
4/28/2003
|
|
| This last semester has taught me something really important. I should forget about going into academia. It's not that I don't have the brain, which I'm a little lacking anyway; it's more about the mind-set and the personality. I'm not one of those people who gets excited reading journal papers on the applications of elliptic integrals of the third kind or obtains pleasure from experiments on finding the variation in spring constants of a microcantilever upon adsorption of some little particles. I do like physics and math, but I'm sure by the end of graduate school I'll study more than I'd like on the subjects. I've seen through the politics of research and academia. It's getting boring. I should just study computational physics at Duke and sell my soul to financial analysis afterwards. Yea, good plan! | | |
| The head of admission of the department of physics and astronomy at UNC gave me a call all of a sudden today and asked me if I were to accept their offer, and told me that if not, the offer would go to someone in China immediately. For the first time in...a long time, I felt like a useful person. | | |
| Ahhh...
The verdict...has been challenged. Rice University is offering good money with nominal work obligation. Plus, it's Houston, a big city! I've been living in this rural village for way too long, would really like to move to a city. However, it's in damn Texas...
Well, I will visit the Rice campus and the department of physics and astronomy this weekend, and see if I really like it or not. Hell yea, a free trip to Houston! I will have to change flights 3 times(!) just from Roanoke, VA to Houston, TX though, which makes it about 13 hours total travelling time. Anyway, I'm excited about the trip and seeing 2 long-lost highschool friends who go to Texas A&M.
So...let the previous verdict be suspended for now. Final decision coming up next week. | | |
| Not the best I could hope for, but I'll learn to like it:
| | |
| All I can say is HOLY FUCKING SHITTTTTT
I accidentially deleted everything in a partition of my hard drive!!
It's the partition that holds all my course documents, computer
programs for research work, research results, pictures, and music!
Fortunately I've backed up stuff here and there before, and part of the
partition can still be recovered. But no way in hell I will get
everything back in its place.
I was trying to install some software and to get some functions to work in linux.
It was so fucking annoying and frustrating to work in the terminal
command window when no expert was around. 4 hours passed and I started
going crazy and trying different random stuff with the codes. The next
thing I realized was that I just erased everything in my D drive.
No doubt I will lose some very important files, even though some others
will be recovered. It won't make a good story in front of the
professors. Whether the professors give a shit or not, I still have to
redo a lot of work. I'm in deeeeep shit! Goddman it! Haven't been so
upset for a long time!
| | |
|
