ThePanda

So it is the 5th, as I sit here in a sunlit hotel room, still at Park City, sitting here on the table, typing as I see my roommate still asleep. I already attended one of the lectures, and half slept through a description of mitosis, and it finally helps that I remember most of what happened through that entire thing. For those who are interested, and there can’t be many out there, no, I finally did not attend the parade or the fireworks display, the parade because it looked far too crowded, and the fireworks because they were at night, were fireworks, and didn’t inspire me to go. I did watch some part of Law and Order instead, so I guess it works out :). It is funny, 9 days , well 8 days of lectures/stuff (nearly half a day has passed for today, next Wednesday is a half day), give or take a few and I’d be done with this, and I am actually not annoyed by that knowledge, don’t get me wrong, frequenting some of the trails over the past few days, creating my own “adventures” (getting lost on a trail for instance), seeing some of the off road places this place has, has led me to appreciate some of the beauty of this place, and it’s really quite fun exploring it, but this is no Providence, I probably spend more of my “downtime” in the computer lab than anywhere else, if only because that’s one of the nicer places to sit and use the wireless connectivity, and my keyboards beginning to irritate me, darn place sans Apple stores I know of (oh wait that was Delhi at one time :P), it’d be good to eventually get this thing set right.

It is the second week of stuff here, and while I know we get more notes for the only undergrad course I have been attending. the grad courses still seem to be proceeding uniformly, perhaps something which is to be expected seeing as at least one of them comes to an end tomorrow, I wonder who will take over for that, I hope it’s not another foray into cardiac rhythms, I am sure ending unusual/bad cardiac rhythms is a good thing, and I am sure the mathematic modeling helps, but I don’t want to see another chick “embryo’s” heart and hear about how the electrodes were arranged inside it, like ugh, too much biology, need fresh unadulterated math or CS. Oh well, I know now why I don’t take courses with the AM department, though I am told some of their courses are cool, might take Topics in Chaos, which JKD was taking earlier this year, it seemed umm interesting, and ya, I kind of already own the book :P.

Have to admit a day rolled over here, else a lot of this would not make sense. I went to this really cool, and cheap (which seems rare for Park City) mexican place yesterday, or more precisely someone took me there and that was fun, I finally know why people tend to like some of Mexican food, it really is that good :). Day rolls over, I had a mildly better start to the day today, reaching Breakfast at a time such that I could actually get a good seat, with people, not alone, and could go online later. Ever so often during lunch they people here try “social engineering”, or basically to give us assigned seats so we can “get to know” other people attending this thing. The last two times we had any such attempts at social engineering, the way group dynamics worked were that we had big conversations, I zone out, and am subsequently lucky to remember even the names of most people, umm wait I must admit, I don’t remember too many names from today. However I did meet someone from the Research Program today who was interested in talking to me, while the school teacher program people discussed things amongst themselves. That was fun, and I found at least one thing which sounded coolish in math biology. And I played soccer at night, yup I did play soccer, it was fun (apart from ball on face at one time), and ya, it really was worse than playing soccer at lower altitudes, so I guess I am not automatically acclimatized to high altitudes :P. I meant to write more, but I slept, and hence didn’t.

Note to world: Stop blowing yourself up, it’s really not fun to check on news every morning and find news of things blowing up instead of fun things. Oh and to mirror something mentioned on Plastic, what’s with sucky/little news coverage outside of the obvious online, like so far the only good news stories I have seen on today’s London stuff has been from the BBC (duh), which also spends a lot of time putting out announcements for people in London.

They have new stuff starting up today, including a series of lectures on something close to neuroscience I am told, that might be a whole lot more fun than things have been so far, hence am looking forward to that, hence am going to go away for now.

OK so the neuroscience lectures are interesting, and it is kind of funky, and I knew some of what he was talking about (OK, there were parts which I knew nothing about, but which still looked pretty), and umm ya. And I am sitting at a thing about Math in Africa, parts of which are sort of funny, but sound generally like a lot of the things you don’t attend at school :).

OK, so I am going to stop this, so I can shutdown the computer, and eventually go for eating stuff.

Ze Panda

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