Just got back from a short trip to Boston. Went visiting with a couple of old college acquaintances. I had lunch with the professor who more or less mentored me during my undergraduate career, which was interesting. It's strange to go back to a school you've graduated from and be on even terms with someone who used to, for lack of a better term, "outrank" you. But it's pleasant, you know? He brought me up to date on what's been going on in the CS department and the projects that we worked on together. Actually, said projects were eventually sacrificed on the alter of university politics, but what can you do? He's changed academic focuses since then anyway, having concluded that the previous one was too impractical. The new study is applying CS math to models of cellular processes, using something called the Pi Calculus. I have an old textbook on it, so maybe I'll go back and review that so I can keep up with any articles he publishes.
I also spent some time with Cristy, whom I hadn't seen for almost exactly 3 years. She just started grad school and moved back to Boston after a couple years' hiatus to sort of get her shit together. Cristy's a clever girl, but during undergraduate she was poorly organized and often irresponsible, as well as the victim of a crappy high school. She's grown up a lot in terms of work habits, though, and taught herself everything needed to fill in the gaps in her education, and got into a pretty good school, which I won't mention in order to keep people from finding her referred to on a porn site. So, kudos to her. I've always aimlessly coasted on talent, frankly, and I really look up to people who can pick a goal and really work for it. But work aside, we had a good time playing with her Wii. She also taught me some cooking tricks, so my ability to trick girls into thinking I can cook is that much more powerful now. It may someday even cross the line and become actual ability to cook! Probably not, though.
On an unrelated note:
This set is driving me insane. Mneylu looks exactly like someone I've met, but I cannot put a name to that face... That's going to bug the hell out of me.
I also spent some time with Cristy, whom I hadn't seen for almost exactly 3 years. She just started grad school and moved back to Boston after a couple years' hiatus to sort of get her shit together. Cristy's a clever girl, but during undergraduate she was poorly organized and often irresponsible, as well as the victim of a crappy high school. She's grown up a lot in terms of work habits, though, and taught herself everything needed to fill in the gaps in her education, and got into a pretty good school, which I won't mention in order to keep people from finding her referred to on a porn site. So, kudos to her. I've always aimlessly coasted on talent, frankly, and I really look up to people who can pick a goal and really work for it. But work aside, we had a good time playing with her Wii. She also taught me some cooking tricks, so my ability to trick girls into thinking I can cook is that much more powerful now. It may someday even cross the line and become actual ability to cook! Probably not, though.
On an unrelated note:
This set is driving me insane. Mneylu looks exactly like someone I've met, but I cannot put a name to that face... That's going to bug the hell out of me.