#ph214

[walfas]

Dream - Assignment (May 26 / morning)

dream

semester (the one that just ended) was nearly over but still had to do some kind of research paper for physics, for some reason

did not know what to do.

The end

[walfas]

May 3 - 2858 steps

physics

farewell party for professor who is possibly not going to be a professor at our college after this semester due to issues

free ice cream on 4th floor

got physics exam#2 back

went home

did homework

it is now

bye

[walfas]

April 28, 2011 - 4929 steps

Physics "quiz" at 11:30. It was a 15-question multiple choice thing where your score doesn't actually matter. That is, if you were on time and actually took it, you get a free homework grade. I felt it was pretty easy considering I did not prepare for it at all; it was mostly qualitative stuff like understanding the concepts, which I am better at than actually doing problems.

Then actual physics lecture at noon, some stuff about the a- and a+ operator stuff and something

Data structures at 1pm, more on binary search trees, some different types (went over AVL trees). I drew a binary tree inside a rectangle. It went all the way to the edge of the rectangle. Anyway, some very brief overview of B+ trees at the end, then got our third assignment.

Solid state at 3pm. Uhh... yeah. I don't remember. I drew a lot of boxes and perspective things. Got our assignment at the end, due on Tuesday.

Walked home at 5pm, 4929 steps

Oh yeah also they turned the exit corresponding to the most convenient staircase (the one I use all the time) into an emergency exit a few days ago, and it's just like "ergh why would you do that" because now I have to exit on the third floor, walk all the way across the third floor and then down the main staircase to the main entrance/exit. I often hear the sound of the emergency exit alarm when near the staircase anyway, kinda like how no one cares that exits in subway stations are emergency exits and use them anyway and it just causes unnecessary noise. Okay yeah, just a rant because that was my favorite staircase and exit and it was just so convenient and now I can't use it.

[walfas]

April 27, 2011 - 6554 steps

Physics at 10am, what did we learn today, uhh... well my homework wasn't collected

Hour break at 11am, went to library

Comp Arch at noon, except really 1pm because etc. Went over more about what the final project will be, programming the PAL for the ALU involves writing a program to write the logic, and also writing an assembler for the instructions, that generates a binary file to be put on the ROM for prog mem. At first I was like "aw man" but now I am kinda like "yeah awesome" because I like writing programs that parse formatted text. I don't know why.

Hour break at 3pm, ate lunch, looked up some sorting algorithms, and found this article which I thought was kinda funny. (" It uses true quantum randomness to randomly permute the list. The list is then inspected, and if it is not in order, the universe is destroyed.")

Signals review at 4pm, went over several problems from the 2009 exam, half of which we have not learned yet. It involves SSS and WSS whatnot things etc stuff

HSS at 6pm, we got bagels with cream cheese, yeahh. Then people presented their papers and at the end we got our papers back except not mine and one other person who also handed it in on time because she is not done grading them yet

walked home at about 8:45pm, 6554 steps

[walfas]

April 26, 2011 - 3803 steps

took subway to school, played pokemon

solid state at 4pm, learned something or other. Exam is on the 10th

physics recitation at 5pm, had a quiz about a thing related to physics

walked home at 6pm

3803 steps

[walfas]

April 24, 2011 - 3443 steps

Took subway to school at noon

Physics at 1pm, finished the example of step function and finite square pulse (or whatever it is called) and started finite square well example

went to financial aid office at 2pm

took subway home, played Pokemon, beat the ice gym

3443 steps

[walfas]

April 21, 2011 - 6615 steps

(This was yesterday)

Physics at noon, learned something or other

Data structures at 1pm, discussion about the second programming assignment, and then trees (i.e. binary trees)

Solid State at 3pm, learned something or other also

Computer center at 5pm, worked on matlab portions of signals homework with friend

went home at about 6:15pm, then went to a restaurant at about 7:30, until 9pm.

Rest of the day spent doing signals homework

6615 steps

[walfas]

April 20, 2011 - 6868 steps

Physics at 10am, homework was collected, learned more stuff about energies and potentials (specifically, sketching wave functions given potentials and energies) and tunneling of particles

Hour break at 11am, went to EE lab, put some stuff together for comp arch

Comp arch at noon, except more like 1:15pm (aside from the fact that the class is supposed to be at noon, we were told it was going to be at 1pm today, and he arrives 15 mins later than that of course). Went over some of the assignment and how to use an o-scope. Also ceramic resonators and how to wire up the P16F877.

Rant: We were then given an absurd assignment to design a 4-bit processor using a PAL (which we have learned nothing about), some memory chips (which we have also not learned how to use) with a PIC involved somehow, written up in extremely vague language ("You will have to figure it out on your own" is a thing that was said) and assigned to us on the spot (as always) in a huge indecipherable mess on the whiteboard. With a schematic due by Sunday. I'm sorry but this class is just ridiculous. Sure, it's nice going 90% of the semester without any real work to do and having the first hour of every three-hour class being free time while he's late, but we don't really learn what we're supposed to learn, and get this crazy final project without even a printout telling us what is expected from it. But anyway.

Two hour break at 3pm, ate some food, printed out HSS essay and annotated bibliography, then worked on Signals stuff in MATLAB in the computer center.

MATLAB seminar at 5pm, learned about simulink

HSS at 6pm, presentations on peoples' papers, and discussion about our visit to the Empire State Building two weeks ago. Ended up going 15 minutes late (until 9:15). Also I cannot speak for more than two minutes at a time without completely messing up and having no idea what I am saying, but that is another story.

Walked home at 9:15pm, 6868 steps.