Mr.Wannabe-Elite CS Guy

So today since I have a ridiculous amount of homework due tomorrow, I went to office hours to get some clarifications and help with it. While doing some work during office hours, I met two guys a pretty cool grad student and a guy who looked like he hadn't showered in a few days with a godawful sense of style.

Anywho, as I was talking and getting help I noticed the elitist manner of speaking this kid was using. As much as I wanted to tell him to shut up, since the GSI wanted us to work on a problem together, I shut up and sucked it up.

I continued getting help from the grad student who knew matlab pretty well and the grad student talks about how he's worried about the midterm and what not. I asked the guy why he was taking so many math classes since he talked about taking Linear Algebra. He went on about how his research had something to do with numerical analysis but he was an engineering type. Then the elistist kid goes "I'm a CS major, blahblahblah" as though that's suppose to awe us and as continues to go on and talk about how he programmed his assignment in java instead of in Matlab.

Eventually I ended up ignoring the kid and just talking to the grad student, but those wannabe elitist CS types annoy the shit out of me. They're always the kid in the CS class that scores average but tries to act like they know everything.

I wanted to but decided not to tell the kid that Java isn't a language that's good for mathematical programming. Especially if you have to do plotting, you're just adding an extra 10 hours of work to something that can take about 10 minutes to do. But I figure I'll let him learn a lesson in humility the hard way :).


Never assume that just because someone doesn't bring up their background or talk about it 24/7 means that they don't have it.

One more midday break

Hahaha between me and my bestest friend Alex,

(6:36:36 PM) etacarinae2174: life is so short
(6:36:48 PM) etacarinae2174: a lot of the time i feel like im not ready to hand my life over to math
(6:36:52 PM) etacarinae2174: like, i want to *live*
(6:36:56 PM) Me: lol
(6:37:00 PM) Me: im going into business haha
(6:37:32 PM) etacarinae2174: wtf
(6:37:51 PM) etacarinae2174: you didnt tell me you sold your soul to the devil

I <3 u~!

Yum Suit.

In the midst of my Saturday homeworking I have to make this statement. I believe that all guys should dress like this, or perhaps just own one of these. I suppose this comes along with my love of men in suits, but I'm not really a big fan of the whole tie dealio.

So I feel that an a suit without the tie, and a slightly unbuttoned dress shirt does me in.

I could elaborate but I really don't think you want to hear that. YUM!

Now back to homework :).

男人

我真的不明白男人.

Blah De Blah

Sometimes, I ask myself why, and I don't understand it but I do it anyways.

I would think, but the only thinking I can do concerns math problems.

Sorry for all the curt posting, I just have nothing interesting or insightful to say.

Tickled.

I am dumb but tickled.

Assumptions

Assumptions make the world go round, and they also make life harder sometimes. I have begun to learn the value of always giving the benefit of the doubt. I say this because I used to always assume the worst, I won't say that I don't it now but I generally always sit down think about it and give a benefit of the doubt or try to.

I've never believed that it's wrong to assume something about someone, but it's not the fact that you assume that matters, it's the fact that you leave room for the benefit of the doubt. It's human to assume, but to be able to give people a chance to prove themselves to you, or to just be able to forgive, is something I believe that sounds so simple, but is truly one of the hardest things in this world to do.

I don't know I think I'm just in a very forgiving mood today.