"It's nine o'clock on a [Tuesday]"

Tuesdays are always kind of crazy. It got back by one and only midterm today and found out I did as well as I thought I had (which is quite well). Why is it that professors always say "you did quite well on the midterm" the next time you talk to them? I could understand saying "congratulations on how you did on the midterm", but you did quite well is just a random statement of fact.

The help desk session also went quite well today, although I found it hard to explain the order of diffraction interference patterns (related to the number of multiples of the wavelength that are in the path length - see, does make sense to you?). I feel sorry for the kids in this class, they're trying to learn material they just don't have the mathematical background to grasp properly. I'm suppose to encourage good physics problem solving skills and physical modeling techniques, but normally end up just pointing them to the equation they should use (which is exactly what I'm not supposed to be doing). Seriously, just finding an equation that relates the necessary quantities seems to be an issue for them, so how do they possibly understand models that are based on integrals of trig functions?

So, then I ran home, ate food and ran to German class. It's going so much better than the French class I tried to take a few years ago. I'm actually one of the people in the class who understands the concepts (although applying them is still a very different matter). I think the major difference is that my French class was full of people who really already knew elementary French (i.e only had three years of core French), and the instructor catered to them. I'm also finding German much easier to pronounce (just pronounce every letter according to the rules). The fact that almost all verbs are regular and there's only one regular verb form (they all end in "en") also help.

May parents are gone to Calgary till the weekend. I should really get out and do something.

Magical Awesomeness

Cows

Pigeon

Brilliance

I have to stop talking to girls instead of catching my bus

But then I wouldn't have time to blog, would I? Google has forced me (literally forced me) to get the new blogger (*grumble*).

The great design project is progressing reasonably well. The work distribution hasn't been very equitable (I've done almost nothing while one of my group members has been in the lab virtually every day for two weeks). However, there's more stuff for me to do right now. I did some spacial resolution testing today, and hopefully by the end of the weekend I'll have the box for the target setup (essentially it's a Tupperware container I'm going to cut a slit in). The most important development is that the signal strength off of tissue is actually quite high (this means the thing just might work).

I had my one and only midterm yesterday (*gleeful happiness*). It went fairly well.

I should probably go if I don't want to miss another bus.

Dear Lord I'm Old

Which Doctor Who are you ?

you are the third doctor: (played by Jon Pertwee) you are gallant, eccentric and sometimes arrogant. You are highly intelligent and a brilliant strategist. You can easily manipulate others and know allot of what will happen before it does. Although you may have many set backs, and people who arent intelligent enough to see your way, they are usually overcome, and you will win out in the end.
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As a Doctor Who novice I really have no idea what this means. But it sounds impressive, doesn't it?

The Follow-Up Question

If you had the abilities of your chosen character in the real world (or maybe technology if your doing the TV sci-fi thing), what would you do with them? How would you deal with the way people would actually react to you (i.e. the fear, idol worship, governments trying to dissect you)?