Tag: Student life

  • Life and its lemons

    My code is handing me a lot of lemons today. In the form of error messages and ridiculously unreasonable results. I debug and solve some problems, just to have new ones crop up. This was supposed to be a very simple piece of programming. My supervisors are disappointed, and I…

  • More New Zealand yayness

    I like dreaming. And I do it a lot. About realistic things, unrealistic things, and things that are completely bonkers. Going to New Zealand was one of my dreams for so very long, so realistic that it bordered on a plan. And now here I am. It seems to be…

  • A good day

    And so the good mood returns, with a vengeance. Today was a splendid day. The seeing was fantastic well into the afternoon, and we observed a group of sunspot in an active region where flare after flare was going off before our eyes. The data set from today alone might…

  • Learning to live

    September is here. Today the term starts at the university back home. It feels overwhelmingly strange to not be responsible for and stressing over and being excited about a dozen things. September is usually one of the busiest months for me, what with new courses to study for, an astronomy…

  • Update of unupdatedness

    AAAAAA GENERAL RELATIVITY MADNESS AAAAARGH In case you wondered about my absence in the blogosphere recently (like, the last couple of months or so). Will return when this insanity is at an end. Expect me when you see me, Winterdragon

  • Sunday, bloody Sunday

    That feeling when you’ve been coding all day and your program is fucked up but you just can’t see what you did wrong and then there turns out to be a friggin’ minus sign missing in one of the equations which in some magical way solves everything when you put…

  • LinCon and the awesomeness of reality

    Another gaming convention come and gone. Another weekend of feeling utterly at home and enjoying every second of good company and board games and general geekiness. Even the signature social panic managed to stay away this time. Might be a one-time lucky accident, or I might have leveled up on…

  • How to keep sane in times of stress

    “It hadn’t been a good day; sanity was a distant memory.” — Terry Pratchett (Pyramids) Another weekend past. As usual I didn’t finish a third of the things I set out to do. Ye gods, remind me to never study more than 100 % at the same time ever again.…