Archive for April, 2006

Fall 2006

April 29th, 2006

Below is my schedule for the Fall 2006 semester. ORF 309 is Probability and Stochastic Systems, and a requirement for the Engineering and Management Systems and Finance certificates. Art 210 covers Italian Painting and Sculpture. PHY 209 is a Pass/Fail seminar on Computational Physics, so it should be a very relaxed, fun [...]

Classes

April 22nd, 2006

My tentative classe schedule for my next four years here is now up. I am signing up to major in Computer Science in the B.S.E. program here, while keeping the option to switch to Operations Research and Financial Engineering by taking those required courses simultaneously. I’m also looking at a mathematics, computing, robotics, [...]

Google

April 21st, 2006

Google went up today due to a favorable earnings report which exceeded investor expectations. I had once again bought Google right before this stock jump, netting a cool five percent very quickly, though I’ll be holding on for one more week.
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Calendar

April 16th, 2006

Google Calendar is now open to the public! GCal is an amazing application of the new style of the web programmed in AJAX. Everything is draggable, making an unsurpassable online user interface. Also, according to my Google Calendar, today is Easter, so Happy Easter everybody! Now, I’m going to gorge myself [...]

Putnam

April 15th, 2006

The William Lowell Putnam Math Competition is an incredibly difficult 6-hour mathematics examination for college students. Last December, over 3500 undergraduates from across the country, most of them majoring in math, sat for the test. Of them, most receive 0 points of a possible 120. Nobody has ever achieved a perfect score.
I [...]