Tomorrow’s the Career Fair, and I just realized I own not a single stitch of business casual clothing. Damn.

… you sit through a fifty minute lecture, and at the end find yourself saying, “Why aren’t there any squares in our least-squares method?” A board full of matrices and transposed matrices and n-dimensional vectors and a distinct lack of squared numbers and somehow we come out with a least-squares curve fit… It’s magic, I tell ya, magic.

I never finished my abbreviated thoughts on the Intellectual Whores website. Yes, it is still floating around in my brain. I’m afraid it will for quite some time. I still don’t have much to say about the site and its content other than two brief things before I resume the almighty homework. First, I was and am much more interested in the “intellectual whore” idea than I am the Ladder Theory proper. The latter (haha, a pun) is understandable in some world views and holds only a vague interest to me, as it wasn’t particularly shocking or new to me. This could be, admittedly, due to the strength of my…

Homemade granola… There are definite benefits to befriending a family of cooks.