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Sunday, July 12th, 2009
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7:07 pm - *big sigh*
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I'm sorry, but opposing someone who fights homophobia by calling out religious discrimination?
Doesn't work.
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2:20 pm - Eeeep
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So, um, that drill they're running what sounds like directly above my head?
Really disconcerting when your fan is going nuts as well.
Although, what this says about my computer fan is just as disturbing.
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1:15 am - GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRrr
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GAH ARGH AHH UGH OMG FAIL FAIL FAIL
I have two fucking math problems left. TWO. If I finish them, I can start the placement test, and then I can start bugging the math department to let me do a second term.
AND I'M STUCK UGH.
The problem is, I know the answer, but the evil way they approach it means I'm not sure how to solve it. Basically, they're asking me to find the derivative of y=sqrt(x) (in terms of slope of graph at x=3 - I've done multiple derivatives already, basically, but they won't tell me wtf a derivative is for another FOUR FRICKING PAGES).
So what I'm working with limit(h->0)(sqrt(3+h)-sqrt(3))/h and I know that the answer is 1/sqrt(12) but I don't know how to get that. The other problems didn't have square roots in them, and were instead things like x^2-3x, in which case you can just expand and cancel and it will work itself down nicely.
THIS ONE WON'T UGH. This is where having a class would come in handy.
Ugh. I really need to just get this done with - I'm probably ahead of where they expect me to be right now, but I need to be done with this because I want to fight for two terms.
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| Saturday, July 11th, 2009
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6:13 pm - Yay math.
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I know a lot of people were disappointed by WolframAlpha... but I sort of love it now.
It's definitely got some work needed, and I seriously need to send off an email to the programmers to tell them how to make it more intuitive (such as, you know, accepting WELL DEFINED MATHEMATIC EXPRESSIONS, or understanding what I mean when I type in v(k)=(1+i/40)^k when k=40, or the ever basic atan(x) in degrees, which it seems to understand but not output).
But it works, really, really well, if you take a little time to look up some of the (slightly obscure or impossible-to-guess) nomenclature and notation, and are trying to use it for math instead of information.
... of course, then the question becomes, why do they suggest you do basic informational searches when it's obvious that the structure of the engine was optimized for math?
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| Thursday, July 9th, 2009
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9:31 pm - How to make a very, very easy knitting pattern very, very hard.
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Note to self - next time, just give up on the lace detail, even though that was why you chose that pattern. Knitting half the shirt up and the other half down is really a bad idea.
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| Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
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1:52 am - *cringe*
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May have just friend fried my lovely alarm clock.
Note to self - plug adapters don't change the voltage (I don't think). And my alarm clock was not made to accept anything other than 120V.
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| Sunday, July 5th, 2009
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7:28 pm - failfailfail
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You know, moths coming into my room really annoys me, but I have yet to do anything about it.
Like closing my window.
Fail.
I didn't title or tag my last post. I need to do it, for my own sake of mind, but I can do it later.
Right now, I don't feel like it.
Also, the warning debate? 1. I am finally caught up. 2. Fail. In a lot of areas, in a lot of ways, in a lot of fractions of posts. Do not want.
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5:15 pm
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You know, you'd think that, someday, my mom would realize that:
a) refusing to let me do something I'm trying to do in favor of sitting me down and talking about college shit that I'm not interested in is going to make me automatically resistant to talking to you at all, let alone agreeing.
Context of a)
* I'm trying to do my fucking homework.
* I'm not interested in CUNY because I recognize that, as much as I agree with my reasoning that I should there for financial reasons, doing so would completely confirm multiple bad self-esteen issues I've been having for years. I'll still apply, but I am going to do everything I can to get the financial aid to go somewhere I want to go because I like the place, not because it would save my mom money.
* I don't care if those other colleges are automatically awesome because they are Dutch and/or have like, no, tuition, etc.; they still are liberal arts and sciences schools, not science schools with liberal arts. There's a huge difference.
* I am not going to fill out college applications while I'm in Austria learning German and teaching myself calculus. At the very least, I think I'll wait until I'm in the same time zone as my college counsellor.
* Audition tapes will be talked with my voice coach about. Have, in fact. Of course I'm being irrational when I respond to your duh question of having dad do the recordings (professionally) by pointing out (truthfully) that, regardless of what she thinks, the recording would not be done in a practice room with a cheap hand-held recorder, but would be done in the main music hall with professional equipment. I know I'm being irrational - of course taking a day trip out to dad would be the more obvious answer. But I do not care about my audition tapes right now, and you harping on them when I'm thinking about division of complex numbers is not appreciated.
* Thank you for flat out ignoring my knowledge of all the shit you are trying to look up right now. I know the admission rates of MIT already. I know they don't take the common app. I fucking know that MIT sends an interviewer to my school, not the other way around - and in fact, when you looked it up because you didn't believe me, you discovered that they flat out don't interview on campus. I goddamn don't care how stupid you think it sounds, it doesn't change the fact that I need to check whether four full years of high school english is a recommendation or a requirement because some schools require it which means I have scheduling problems that I need to know about asap.
* You have no idea, mom, just how much you are the reason for those self-esteems issues you hate me for having.
b) telling me how dumb I'm being is the worst way to make me act "smarter" in your opinion. Why? Because everything I ever could possibly do is dumb in your opinion. Because no matter what I do, I'm being "difficult", I'm "smirking", I'm "not being nice", I'm "laughing at [your] expense" - jeeze, don't you realize that possibly the only related thing you've actually taught me about these things is that it's impossible to act the "right" way, so why the fuck should I even try?
PS. A - sorry for not closing the door properly - twice - and thus letting the cat out - twice. I'll remember that the door doesn't latch without turning the handle from now on, I hope.
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| Friday, June 26th, 2009
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1:39 am - gah
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1. SATs. Was not expecting any of those scores, both the ones I did really well on and the one I did not (well actually, that one sorta maybe).
2. To those people who do not believe that an email chain, even sent to every single student in a 1000 student school, could overflow peoples' email boxes, our boxes are limited to a frustratingly small 80 or so MB (really frustrating when you like to save a copy of all of your notices... such as livejournal notices... I direct them through gmail for this reason), and with every single name re-listed in full each time a student hits reply all, the size of the most recent email was over 600KB. And that was all text.
3. Singing yay!
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| Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
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10:59 pm - Oh god I can't believe they're starting that email chain up again...
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Teenagers are so stupid sometimes.
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| Monday, June 22nd, 2009
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10:49 am - *sigh*
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So apparently I fucked up.
The passport was in a box of college mail my mom had given me a few weeks back.
I swear I looked through it, but it was right on top.
I just can't do anything right anymore. Sometimes I don't even know why I bother trying to help. Since obviously, if my parents had looked through it in the first place, they would have found it. It took barely even a cursory glance through.
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| Sunday, June 21st, 2009
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10:22 pm - For fuck's sake.
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You know, you would think my mom would be able to take care of the one thing I truly entrusted her to take care of.
The worst part is, it's this kind of thing that has led to my stupid, irrational internal lack of self-worth. After all, if my own mom doesn't seem to place any worth in my most important things (things that are, in our world, essentially as important as my own self), why the fuck should I? But instead, my mom can keep track of even the least important things from my sister. My mom can keep track of my sister's doodles and scraps, but she can't keep track of my passport?
I know that's stupid and irrational and just self-pitying or something else equally stupid, but that doesn't change the way it makes me feel.
(Especially when you throw in the fact that we're trying to search, and from the way she's talking screaming and cursing at me when I panic and ask her to clarify what she means by "I haven't seen it", you'd think she thinks it's entirely my fault. Which it's not. I haven't seen this new passport yet, even, since my thinking was that my mom had it somewhere safe and playing around with it before my trip to Austria this summer would just be opening me up to lose it.)
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5:34 pm - Maybe I'm predictable...
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but Sulu was so hot. And awesome.
I mean, seriously, dude - Kirk was all like, YOU SUCK when he was like, I know fencing!
And then he kicked butt! Yay!
Okay, I'm done.
If you couldn't tell, I saw the Star Trek Movie.
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12:54 am - *slump*
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I MISS MY BOYFRIEND!!!!!!!!!
*cries*
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| Friday, June 19th, 2009
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8:42 pm - Fun vs. Not Fun
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Fun: dissecting your laptop to the barest components (I was cleaning out the fan)
Not fun: reassembling it only to realize that the touch pad, the very last thing accessed and first thing replaced, wasn't connected properly.
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| Thursday, June 18th, 2009
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12:21 am - If math is of the bwah to you, feel free to keep on scrolling...
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Please be helping me! Just a touch of background - I want to take 400 level physics next year, but I’m short the math requirement, so I’m teaching myself entry-level calculus. So a quick question I’m not quite sure of:
Asked to evaluate lim(n→∞) (1 + 0.5/n)^n, Herbie quickly answered, “It’s simple; 1 to any power is just 1.” Avery disagreed, “It’s an indeterminate form; the answer is actually greater than 1.” Who is correct, and why?
So I decided that, because as n→∞, 0.5/n=0, and therefore 1^n=1, Herbie’s right.
But my answer sheet says both are right, and the answer is sqrt(e).
OH DUH I think, we have already determined that lim(n→∞) (1 + r/n)^n = e^r so it should be sqrt(e). But at the same time, sqrt(e) is definitely not the same as 1.
Bwah?
(And don’t worry - I’m totally allowed and in fact expected to get help while I’m working through the material, I just have to take the placement test alone.)
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| Friday, June 12th, 2009
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9:51 pm - *flailflailflail*
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Computer?
I really do not want to deal with you being a shit-face right now, okay?
No love,
Dunvi.
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1:08 pm - ...
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I really need to get started on my math homework. Whoops.
(Hey, hey hey, any math-y type people out there willing to answer questions if I ever go, "Wait, what? I think I only have 23 pages, but I was pretty lucky when I did the 18 pages over spring break that I didn't encounter any WW's until literally the last page, at which point I just went to my old teacher on campus and said, "Before classes start tomorrow, help me." If I do that on page 13 here, I won't get into two of my classes next year... Okay, okay, time to shut up.)
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| Thursday, June 11th, 2009
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11:17 pm - Oops
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I lost my cellphone in Dave and Busters.
There's a chance it got shredded. We're hoping not, but then again my chances of actually getting it back are close to nil. It was a 10 dollar track phone. I'll call Virgin in the morning and be like, "plz be cancelling this phone, sending me a new one, and letting me keep my old number and minutes, k thanx bai."
This is pretty typical of me, though.
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| Thursday, June 4th, 2009
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4:11 pm - On the one hand, today sucked...
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So, um, I woke up, discovered my jeans have decided to disintegrate in the butt, of course. Realized I completely had blanked out as to my computer's password, decided that, sure, I would remember it by tomorrow (I have, finally) but I needed to check my email and so basically did a repair installation (there's a way to secretly get in and change the administrator password that way), and then had to go to every single one of my classes for all of 25 minutes to do... absolutely nothing.
But on the other hand...
I may have a boyfriend.
I dunno how to do this!!!!!!! *FLAILS*
IT'S THE FUCKING SUMMER. WHY NOW!??
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