winter break (pt.1)

today was the official first day of no school;

technically, if started from about thursday afternoon for me.


much like the last couple of days,
today was another unproductively lazy day;


it's not that i have nothing better to do during this break.

on the contrary, there is a full list of things for me to study.


also, it's not that i enjoy being in denial of my responsibilities, since i'm riddled with a fair amount of guilt in acting like a teenager while grown ups in the real world are working hard earning their keep.


hence to fight/break this unproductivity streak, this blog entry;

honestly, the plan tomorrow is to start being productive,
which reminds me i have to do laundry...

(maybe i'll get some studying in as well, by God's grace...)


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winter break (pt. 2) what do i have to show?

although i maybe above average in doing math,
the rubik's cube has always baffled me.


when i owned one back in grade school, i could "solve it" by dismantling the puzzle, and assembling the cube according to the color patterns.

the best i could do without cheating was get one side solved, which was next to nothing; i just didn't care for it.


so did i somehow become smarter all of a sudden?

the obvious answer is no.


this time, i cheated in a different way, via using the class notes of a professor that taught a course on the cube.


for those of you that are interested, the useful part of the link is the pdf file called "newcube", starting at chapter 4, page 19; it would be good to also read chapter 2.

enjoy.


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some kinda crazy juice...

on fridays, the math department provides free refreshments; usually, they have guava juice and what not, but today, the pictured item caught my fancy.

"my juice" with the tag line, "living healthy"

apple orange juice with tomato.


the apple and the orange sounds normal, but adding the tomato ingredient completely changes its normalcy. (although it's totally blurred) at the top of the can, it boasts, made in hawaii; the company is itoen, which is well known in japan for making green tea.


so how is it, you might ask?

i would say you're not missing out on much. i'm glad i'm living healthy, but at the price of drinking apple orange juice with tomato, i'm feeling there's a better alternative at doing such.


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yay, i passed the exam

(to my surprise)
the professor told me that i did better in the second exam than i did on the first:

(for those of you interested in details...)
they wrote up the comments on my first exam:

the required number of problems were 4 problems, and i attempted 5; the scores they gave me on the problems were 8/10, 9/10, 8/10, 3/10, and 3/10.

all in all, my performance was beyond borderline, and i don't have to do any re-writing of the problems; yay.


for all of you who threw up prayers on my behalf, thanks so much.
yay God.


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the big exam was the 21st...

i totally forgot to say anything here on the blog,
but the exam happened about 10 days ago.


i still don't know the results, but for those of you
that might not know how (i feel) i did:

the first part of the exam went ok;
the second part of the exam was more difficult.


the other students mentioned that the borderline cases of pass/fail gets to re-write the entire exam, and they are given several days to do it to obtain passing status.

from how i feel i did on the exam, i imagine i should be at least in the borderline case, and thus everything should be fine.


when i find out more, i will make sure to post.


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