All my thoughts that are fit to blog. Which mostly consists of stuff about programming.
Jun 01 2009
[Meta-note: Yes, I realize this is a bit dated and definitely out of chronological order; So sue me.] Earlier this quarter, I, in partnership with Nick, participated in a programming contest put on by the CSE Department. It used a Java framework called “CodeRally” and involved programming an AI for a car on a virtual [...]
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Apr 04 2009
A public service announcement to anyone taking the Math 20 series at UCSD: I would strongly advise you to take Math 20F (Linear Algebra) before Math 20D (Differential Equations), despite how that seems alphabetically out of order. Why? Because a few classes into 20D last quarter, my Prof basically said that the current order is weird [...]
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Jan 18 2009
I thought I’d chronicle this just because of the sheer weirdness factor. As I took the elevator up and back, to and from the math homework boxes so I could turn in my MATLAB homework, both times two students got on the elevator wearing gloves and moving a large, wheeled trash bin with biohazard warnings [...]
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Jan 18 2009
Ok, so I recently experienced significant problems trying to enroll in CSE 15L (Debugging Lab), but finally got them resolved and am now in the class. Summary Let me give you a rundown of what happened: When my enrollment time came around, all the seats for 15L were full, so I put myself on the [...]
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Nov 09 2008
This is quite a bit belated, but about a month ago, on the way back to ERC from the Computer Science Engineering (CSE) building, I ran into a guy wearing the same shirt as me, specifically, the one based on this comic. He was talking on a phone as we walked each other. We looked [...]
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Nov 09 2008
Apparently UCSD is located near a military base. I’ve seen and heard military jets and a group of Apache helicopters fly by a few times now. It’s kinda surreal, not to mention noisy. Not exactly something they mention in the promotional pamphlet :)
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Nov 08 2008
[Last updated: March 2010; Hi, College Confidential folks!] A friend of mine who’s currently applying to college recently asked me about which college of UCSD to apply to, not knowing that you don’t choose one but rather rank them. Anyway, in the interests of helping him and other future UCSD applicants, I’m writing this guide [...]
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