It's been so fucking long since i've done this I just had explain.
I've never worked harder in my life 12 hours a day one break to eat, one break to walk home then eat then work till the drugs wear off.
It's both envigorating and exhausting. I'm giv'n er. Really giv'n er.
One story from this all the echos with me everyday. I'm taking a course called CSCI 3110 Algorithms. It's the most failed course in our Computer Science Department. On the last assignment one half the class failed one quarter of whom got ZERO on their assignment, to which he commented the marks are still higher than he would have liked.
zero. No 'E' for effort here. FUCK!! it's terrifies me.
Last class he was writing a 'rigorous' proof of the 'master theorem' on the board (which solves recurance relations the "easy way" please note the irony when I say that) and NOT ONLY did he RUN OUT of lowercase roman letters and had to resort lower case greek alphabet to continue, but he got it wrong... HE got it wrong. SO will start again from the top next class.
One big problem for me is I don't know what lower case ALPHA, lower case THETA and OMEGA so when he points to the mysterious mess of symbols on the board and says in a feint german accent:
HIM: "the important thing to notice here is alpha.."
IN MY HEAD: "WHICH ONE! which one- where is he looking- what's he point at is that "L" looking one? Maybe maybe it's the "w" looking one. maybe the half-infinity-thing? WHICH ONE!"
HIM: "As our geometric series approaches infinity our q goes to 2 and we know can drop constants..."
IN MY HEAD: "YAAAAAH I understood that! WHERE THE FUCK IS ALPHA?!"
HIM: "So theta of n log a minus small omega to the base of b minus 1 over n to the i log q to the base b..."
IN MY HEAD: "...don't let them see you cry..."
BTW Happy post-wedding bliss Dennis and Antje. I'm a self-involved turd for not saying congratulations till now. Dennis, does this mean you are officially a German?
Today's Song of the Day is "99 Red Balloons" by Nena off her 1984 album "99 Luftballons." (I couldn't find the German one.)
Crazy Fact: In 2005, her album 'Willst Du Mit Mir Gehn', went platinum. She is still... it's 20 years later! crazy!
njoy
4 comments:
try google - I'm sure you could get a cheat-sheet of the greek alphabet.
Or make one yourself using the symbol font...
DUDE - don't fail!!
I am not a German. Really. But I might be able to more easily work here now, I dunno, I gotta call the Alien Affairs Office (otherwise known as the Ausländerbehörde, ha ha ha ha eek.)
No, to be a German I think I'd have to give up my Canadian passport... and that would simply be a lie.
Thanks for the congratulations! It was a fantastic wedding, a fabulous party, followed by an out-of-this-world honeymoon in Mallorca, I can't take it all in. All I can say is: I saw a live wild octopus, and that was really cool.
What do you mean that your prof said that the marks are still higher than he would have liked? What kind of an S&M attitude is that? Shouldn't he want his students to get high marks?
At our wedding party Antje sung a song to me, Karaoke style. It was called Er Gehört zu Mir by Marianne Rosenberg. She's insanely cool.
I had to sing Stevie Wonder's "I just called to say I love you..." yeah well the songs were picked by her band's bassist...
Dude I can't process how amazing everything is. How pleasant. Ahm, good luck with all that school stuff. You put the "chool" in "School".
wait until you see the present that i brought you from europe... it will live it up the hype.
i'll be in town on thursday (probably).
make an hour for me, eh?
c
COME BACK PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post a Comment