Recite π as a binary decimal, if you wish. This page is updated annually, subject to my current time zone. π day 2014 at about 15:9.26, I ate a chocolate pie (those small ones) during a Chinese literature class, got nearly choked, and had to leave the classroom to search for water... Thank you to … Continue reading π Day Memories
Category: Science Scholars 102
Directions
I am still attempting to fit every academic desire into the schedule for next semester — last one at Berkeley, second last one as an undergraduate student: Quantum, Introductory Cosmology, GR, advanced mechanics, Stats mech, topology, complex analysis, cellular biology, music theory, existentialism, and perhaps a language, documentary filmmaking and theatre (thanks). While writing this … Continue reading Directions
Here’s to the First Year of f-STEM
Not that I intend to celebrate the passage of time too 'often', as I do to myself when alone, but happy Anniversary to ftdsci. It's been good staying here. There are 17 days until school starts under an eclipsed sun, and, before that, 7 days until I leave for California, so maybe it's about time … Continue reading Here’s to the First Year of f-STEM
Three Anniversaries
It's noted on my passport, and, I guess, somewhere confidential where they keep track of things, that I, 16, entered Aotearoa for the first time on 13 July 2014, fresh out of my Grade 10 in continental Eurasia, as a visitor to a family member in this country, carrying from home some holiday homework, half-scribble … Continue reading Three Anniversaries
Fish Out of the Water
Well, to say the least, to fill a chemistry presentation with every midnight-made segments of animation but not my growing reservoir of chemical data -- an action discrediting my usual style -- defines the problem with myself throughout the past few months. Limitations -- my limitations -- to identify them, and to dance within them. … Continue reading Fish Out of the Water