Category: on my mind

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This should be interesting

Despite only taking two classes right now, life seems really chaotic. Certain lines of thought are slowly connecting together, which means if I’m articulate enough I might actually have some post soon.

  • It’ll be nice when this job search finally ends. I didn’t apply to many companies, so it’s been a slow process. But it sounds like everything will be wrapping up soon.
  • Ski trip this weekend. I’m looking forward to seeing all these people, but I don’t particularly want to snowboard. My body is in a little bit of pain. Also…
  • Midterm on Monday and a problem set due Tuesday after this weekend, so if I get snowed in in Tahoe, life will suck.
  • So the SFB trainees are doing some performance on campus this Thursday, and supposedly they’re going to take class with us beforehand. The result of which will be something in between humbling and mortifying. I’m not sure we even have enough barres.
  • I think I have like a jr-high level ballet crush on tp girl. The way she moves is just so elegant and unaffected. Her dancing is like sunshine on a cloudy day.
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Classes for a new quarter

So I think I’ve settled upon classes for the quarter:

  • Stat 217 – Intro Stochastic Processes (required)
  • Stat 329 – Large-Scale Simultaneous Inference, taught by Efron.  This should be pretty good material, and since he’s going to publish the material, it’s all typed up neatly, which is awesome.
  • BMI 217 – Translational Bioinformatics. I still have no idea what that adjective means, but it seems like it’ll be a great applied bioinformatics class.

Tougher than any of those, though, is back-to-back ballet classes (beginning and then intermediate). I think I might die with that schedule, but I wouldn’t be motivated any other way to build the requisite endurance. Plus, tp girl is in the intermediate class.

I also just realized that I took AP Bio (10 years ago!?) before the human genome was sequenced, so all this genomics stuff is rather foreign to me. I’m trying to refresh myself on the very basics of molecular biology, of which I knew little in the first place. Like, there are now two new amino acids: selenocysteine and pyrrolysine? Craziness.

It is kind of funny to me that the lecture hall in the medical school has hand sanitizer and clorox wipes for the professor, though.

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Things on my mind

  • To alleviate that gaping sadness in my soul, I caved in and bought a netbook: the Asus EEE 1005HA-V. It’s pretty small and light, and kind of dumb because the processor is slow, but it surfs the web just fine. One doesn’t realize how much of a resource hog stattracker is until you try to load it on a netbook. Installed Moblin on it, but the linux wireless drivers are kind of crap, since my wireless keeps disconnecting every few minutes in Moblin but not in Windows XP.
  • Fantasy basketball team is imploding. Makes life a little sad.
  • The outer sheath of the wires on the Shure e2c earphones are cracking. Is it time to try the Etymotic Research er6i’s, or maybe better to get something cheaper? The old Sony ones weren’t that bad for the price. Other suggestions?
  • Stanford football beat Notre Dame, barely. But it was an exciting game. Toby Gerhart’s in the thick of the Heisman race, but something tells me his chances are slim.
  • Stanford women’s volleyball is amazing, pulling out a Pac-10 title from the clutches of Washington. Although I guess it was really Washington losing to Oregon in the final game. I’m assuming the Pac-10 title is what propelled the team up to a #4 seed, and so Stanford has home-court advantage until the Final Four round, all played at Maples. It should be fun to watch, and hopefully tickets aren’t too expensive. Here’s to another shot at Penn State (though PSU is probably unstoppable this year, again)!