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ad_exiaZOMG it's DONE. o.o; YAY Actually, the proposal wasn't as bad as the previous project, which was a relief. But it still took most of a week of not-sleeping, though we did manage to finish at 3am this morning (except I had to get up for class at 9am, grr). Ah well, that's over and done. Now there's just one more Cosmology project, but that's not due for almost three weeks. Whew! Lined up for the rest of the semester (read: next three weeks) is:
- Second Year Project (read: Master's thesis, consisting of a paper and a talk and I'm not quite done with the photometry yet because she just found me an X-ray catalog today that I can cross-match as well, though running PHOT on that shouldn't be too bad)
- Cosmology project (poster/paper-quality research on... somethingorother)
- Galaxies homework (icky-looking, but not due 'till the 28th)
- One more Solar Systems test
- Possible extra credit Cosmology project (depending on how well our proposal does...Why yes, we'd love to just take Gemini South off your hands, thanks for offering!)
Two finals the first week of May, though one is "optional," I think. And then there's the qual on May 19th, but that's not even in the picture yeteven if it should be. And OMG I have two costumes to finish, one of which I haven't even started. I need to buy wigs this week, which means no Chronicles of Narnia for me, because it's $35 and I can't afford that AND two good-quality wigs in the same month. Ah well.
Um. So yeah, there really hasn't been much going on. Spend all day at school, come home at 5 or 6, leave again for school at 8, work until four am, go home, sleep for a few hours, repeat. But hey, I'm used to that. Except my cat isn't exactly thrilled with it, so I'm going to stay home on Sunday to work on my Second Year Project paper so I can spend time with her. ^^;
Oh! But. OMG. YOU MUST GO DOWNLOAD THIS. It is the coolest thing EVER. It's a movie (it works best in quicktime, if you have it) compiled from real data that starts out in our own galaxy, in the direction of Orion, and keeps zooming out/around until you end up in the Virgo Cluser, the nearest large cluster of galaxes. It's AMAZING. Vicki put it up during class yesterday, and all of us went "Ooooh~" :D;; So I figured I would share, because it was really damn cool. And while I'm on a stupid astronomy kick, the Big Bang theory? Is amazing. I mean, really, it's predicted some amazing things, that then people have gone out and observed and found. I mean, so you always hear about the big bang, and hell, I even took a class on it, but it's just kind of mind-boggling to sit back every once in a while and realize that someone came up with this totally whacked theory and said "if this is right, then these values should be this" and then people went and looked and they were. I mean, there are still tons of holes (i.e. never mind that 97% of the universe is made up of stuff that we can't see or measure), but still. Stuff. :D
Quote of the week:
Sun: "We really should stop talking in terms of variables and percentages in an attempt to reintegrate us into normal society."
Me: [insert laughter here]
Sun: "What?"
Me: "Well, that was a really good point. Until you used the word 'reintegrate.'"
(Yes. It was five in the morning. Everything was funny.)
- Second Year Project (read: Master's thesis, consisting of a paper and a talk and I'm not quite done with the photometry yet because she just found me an X-ray catalog today that I can cross-match as well, though running PHOT on that shouldn't be too bad)
- Cosmology project (poster/paper-quality research on... somethingorother)
- Galaxies homework (icky-looking, but not due 'till the 28th)
- One more Solar Systems test
- Possible extra credit Cosmology project (depending on how well our proposal does...
Two finals the first week of May, though one is "optional," I think. And then there's the qual on May 19th, but that's not even in the picture yet
Um. So yeah, there really hasn't been much going on. Spend all day at school, come home at 5 or 6, leave again for school at 8, work until four am, go home, sleep for a few hours, repeat. But hey, I'm used to that. Except my cat isn't exactly thrilled with it, so I'm going to stay home on Sunday to work on my Second Year Project paper so I can spend time with her. ^^;
Oh! But. OMG. YOU MUST GO DOWNLOAD THIS. It is the coolest thing EVER. It's a movie (it works best in quicktime, if you have it) compiled from real data that starts out in our own galaxy, in the direction of Orion, and keeps zooming out/around until you end up in the Virgo Cluser, the nearest large cluster of galaxes. It's AMAZING. Vicki put it up during class yesterday, and all of us went "Ooooh~" :D;; So I figured I would share, because it was really damn cool. And while I'm on a stupid astronomy kick, the Big Bang theory? Is amazing. I mean, really, it's predicted some amazing things, that then people have gone out and observed and found. I mean, so you always hear about the big bang, and hell, I even took a class on it, but it's just kind of mind-boggling to sit back every once in a while and realize that someone came up with this totally whacked theory and said "if this is right, then these values should be this" and then people went and looked and they were. I mean, there are still tons of holes (i.e. never mind that 97% of the universe is made up of stuff that we can't see or measure), but still. Stuff. :D
Quote of the week:
Sun: "We really should stop talking in terms of variables and percentages in an attempt to reintegrate us into normal society."
Me: [insert laughter here]
Sun: "What?"
Me: "Well, that was a really good point. Until you used the word 'reintegrate.'"
(Yes. It was five in the morning. Everything was funny.)
