the ravings of the questioning
This Microsoft redesigns the iPod box video parody is amusing, but really, my favorite part of the video is the music. It’s just perfect. Makes me wonder what the song is so that I can go out and snag a copy for myself.
To balance things out, though, let’s revisit my old favorite: the Apple switch commercial parody.
Just got off the phone with the professor at Cornell that I’m most interested in working with. He sent me an e-mail last week expressing excitement over my upcoming visit and welcoming me to join his research group. (”Gold may start falling from the sky…” one friend told me when I said that I’d gotten an offer from my top school to work with the person I’m most interested in working with) I decided to give him a call today not so much to ask any particular question but to let him know that I was very interested in learning more about his research group when I visit. He’s British–extremely British, judging from my chat with him–and he was so happy that I called. Apparently he’s sent me a package with more information (and pretty pictures) and he figured that was why I was calling. The whole discussion was a bit off-the-wall as he’s frantically writing a big proposal and hasn’t had much sleep. Visions of Quinn anyone?
He was “quite chuffed” to hear that his group’s website was my main motivation in applying to Cornell, and it turns out that he’s done a bit of background work on my current advisor, Dr. White. He finds him “jolly good” and thinks I’m lucky to have had him, doubly so because Dr. White is encouraging me to leave Case for the sake of improving my career chances. He gave me a bit of background on the set-up of Cornell’s graduate program, since he’s the graduate director as well. And somewhere in the conversation he informed me that there’s a good chance that I’ll get to meet Bill Nye while I’m there as he’s giving a lecture. Yes, that’s Bill Nye the Science Guy. I have to admit a certain amount of geekish delight at this because I was most certainly one of those kids who watched that show on Saturday mornings. I hadn’t realized that Nye was, in fact, a mechanical engineer from Cornell. How cool.
How I’m going to motivate myself to actually do work today is beyond me.
Last part, I promise. This post covers Saturday and the trip home on Sunday.
This entry, like the last one, is a mish-mash of different writing times. Except in this case, I wrote the first section the night of and the later portions were fleshed out this morning. It’s quite a bit longer than the previous one, not least because Friday, the day this describes, was a busy, busy day.
This entry may be a bit odd. The first part is something I’m writing now, whereas the later portions were written in my hotel room the day that I arrived. If tenses start going wonky, that’s probably the reason.
Being at UVa at the moment, I didn’t see this post about Google bringing girls in to shadow people on “Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day” until today, but I think that’s awesome. We need more women in math, science, and engineering, and my feeling on the matter is that if some women don’t just go out and do it, girls aren’t going to be inspired to follow those role models and we won’t see any change. This may explain why I’m willing to consider working in a lab where I would be the sole female.
It’s no bloody wonder my suitemates are dying to work for Google. Take a look at the Googleplex! (Thanks to Michael Heilemann for the link.)
I’m having WordPress troubles. This entry marks the second time that I’ve written a full entry, posted it, verified that it was whole and intact, and then come back later to find it truncated randomly in the middle. I have no idea what is causing this. If it were hackers, I’d expect something more showy, so I’m guessing it’s a bug someplace, but where, I don’t know. When I try to edit the entry through the Dashboard, only the truncated text shows up, so I can’t seem to retrieve the original post that way either. Any suggestions?
(And, in the meantime, please bear with me and my poor disappearing entries.)
When I said that I was getting wooed by graduate schools, I had no clue how true that statement was. In the past twenty-four hours, I have received no less than three e-mails from professors at graduate schools who are trying to woo me. Currently, the University of Virginia has their “We
On days when I’m not feeling great about myself and about life (like today), I take solace in this song. As Mic says before he starts playing, “It’s about every day being your best day.” There’s comfort in living like that, and I wish that could more often. But even if I can’t, “Heyday” brings me that much closer to managing. Should the song catch your fancy, there’s more where it came from.
Rave on, Mic Christopher.
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