From misery to happiness today...

Well for those whom I haven't bragged to yet. I got my best uni marks ever last semester. It's also the last semester of my degree technically. It seems I have completed my Bachelor of Science Degree and I now commence my Honours Degree of Bachelor of Science. About time to finally pull my head in. Had I got 1 other mark in 3rd year in the same range as the 3 subjects I did last semester I would be on a $2000 scholarship. Mum's been bragging to everybody heaps and I've been telling her to stop it because its embarrassing. She pointed out though that I'm the only person in her side of the family to ever get a degree. I'm the second person from the other side of the family. It was an average of 87. (which is a freaking good uni mark)

For perspective:

(year-semester: average)

2004-1: 76
2004-2: 79
2005-1: 46
2005-2: 61
2006-1: 75
2006-2: 64
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2007-1: 87


So there ya go. I'm happy.

707

Upon researching universities I came across this:

N.B.
You have to be a yank and pronounce z as 'zee'


The integral z-squared dz
From one to the cube root of three
Times the cosine
Of three pi over nine
Equals log of the cube root of e

After Grog Blog

Dear Diary,
This is not about emotion...

Last night I got drunk.

Was one of those nights. Been a long time since I've stayed out 'til close. Was so much fun. Except that I forgot my atm card so when I tried to get cash out for my taxi, I was in a bit of strife. But lets rewind...

First entertaining thing of the evening was Daz. Darren was pretty darn smashed. I was impressed. We order drinks by colour. Jason had a yellow and I had a purple. Then I started singing I could be hurtful, I could be purple. Jason ate a shnitzel sandwhich at 3am. I was trying to moonwalk all night. I beleive I succeeded at some point. I played guitar in primary school with EJ. Some weird chick kept trying to talk to me. She even grabbed me on the way past and had a photo taken with the photo guy. She wasn't even attractive. I can "dance" lower to the ground than lennice. My feet hurt. Even Sean and Nat came out. That's about as much entertaining stuff as I can remember.

So back to the getting home.

I tried calling mum, then meg, then even amy like the good old days, but nobody answered their phone. So I started walking home... Actually the funny part of this story is the fact I forgot my bank card. In the end I managed to wake up mum and she picked me up from just past JB and that... I made it pretty far pretty fast cos it was bloody cold...

In other news: this is an inappropriate place for a colon. And my colon has been alcohol poisoned.

It's like bold and italic :

Yeh so as I was trying to say, I just had my take-home exam for the 'hard maths' I have come to realise there is only 4 of us actually enrolled. So I hope he doesn't try to get a good spread of marks. I think I did reasonably well. I'd be surprised if I don't get higher than 75 for the subject. And annoyed if I don't get a HD (80+). So while I was there I had a talk to some people about my honours and actually lodged my application. It's a maths honours for those who I haven't told or forgot. I googled the topic that my project may be on so people can have a read of something about it and the first thing that came up was THIS. In the second last paragraph it mentions two people. Bartnik and Mckinnon. I'm pretty sure that Bartnik is Robert Bartnik who would be my supervisor. He did mention that not many people had looked at these equations in the last 20 years other than him. He was talking about having me solve the Einstein-Yang/Mills equations with a non-zero electric field. N.B. I Also don't know what this really means or involves. Sounds fun though. I hope nothing goes totally foul and I don't end up getting into honours. I'll be so dissapointed.

I could be violet sky

Since it's becoming the latest craze, I might have to partake in this "random thought process"

I am Stephen, though only my mum doesn't shorten it these days
I have weird nipples
I complain too much
Nobody listens
I feel better about myself this month than I have in the past 4 years
I have mild dyslexic characteristics
I have a natural ability to learn quickly when I set my mind to it
I often don't
I am compulsed to capitolise all my I's and place apostrophe's where required
I wish I could sing
I can't
I have very good cognitive skills
I have no co-ordination
I am a serial monogamist
I am not a cereal monogamist
I often think of word origins
I don't beleive there is a God nor a god
If keyboards had mathematical symbols, I would type with them
The grass is greener on the other side
Is that because the other side is a vacant block and nobody cuts it?
I get paranoid alone at night
I hold my stomache muscles tense far too often
I like to feel smart so I often make other people feel stupid
Cold water tastes better than warm water
Warm water has more calories

And time can do so much...

At least since my first year at uni there has been graffiti in one of the computer labs. A lab which must have well over 100 students passing through it every day.

On the wall there is a sign which reads:

No... Eating
No... Drinking
No... Smoking

Now somebody decided to add below it on the sign

No... Juggling

In what appears to be permanent marker. Keep in mind this sign is quite obviously placed.

Sometime in my first year (2004), I was bored and checked if it was permanent marker. It isn't. I removed the "No..." with a quick wipe, so the sign just had the word "Juggling" written on it.

To this day the sign appears unchanged.

Watching the clock...

Does anybody still read this?

Exams coming up soon. Havent really thought about them yet though. Just used a 6 months membership to the gym mum won in a raffle a while back, so hopefully i can continue to go. I havent drank anything other water in teh last week except 1 glass of OJ. I haven't had take-away in the last week either.

Blogging doesnt have the same pleasure as it used to... I think i must have finally found something better to do with myself

By now you shoulda somehow realised what you gotta do...

So... It's been a really long time... Seems this blog is getting quite neglected as of late.

Still haven't decided on a car. Those options are long gone too i think. I want a manual I've decided too. Only i'm too scared to test drive manuals while people are watching cos i'll probably fuck it up royally.


I've decided on a maths honours.. not physics. Gonna do some physics subjects so I can still learn good old QFT if they offer it next year... Must learn that. But will be doing mostly maths... math is fun anyways.

Gonna have another take home exam for the 'hard maths' i'm doing too soon... Another day or two of being confined to a room with books.