Just picked up the brand new NTNU study catalog (don't ask me why they would print it up right now, with school starting a mere month ago) and reading the description of their computer science course, I caught onto an interesting statement. "This program will affect your entire professional life." After giving 5 years of my life to it, I sure would hope so.

Also, the catalog looks very nice in terms of layout, but the content is fairly mediocre. Why is it that whenever the layout is good, the content is not and vice versa? There must be a strong force of inertia at play..

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[23:44:03] iAlex: btw I get depressed at how I suck at math
[23:44:09] iAlex: cant beat it
[23:44:16] Erik: hm join the club
[23:44:22] Erik: at least I dont meet it anymore at this education
[23:44:32] iAlex: watching this MIT lecture and I get everything, then he gives a real world math problem and Im out
[23:44:33] iAlex: f annoying
[23:44:58] iAlex: I get the principles, I just dont understand the math formulation of things
[23:45:07] iAlex: I suppose that makes me a moron
[23:45:11] iAlex: which is a bit of a shame
[23:45:24] iAlex: sorta feels like the silver medal

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I love people who are religious about saving the environment, who also have a mansion consuming enough electricity to power a small car factory.

Just thought I'd share.

Even if you have every excuse not to know the answer. Like if I'm talking to a person I just met who is from Sudan, I won't know the most basic things about their country or culture or anything. And frankly, I have ever reason not to know, because I've never met anyone from Sudan, I've never taken a class on Sudan, I've never read a book about Sudan. But if I meet a person from Sudan, I'll feel like an idiot asking what language they speak or what religion they have. Because if someone asked me that about my country, I would look at them funny. You're supposed to know those things. Yet sometimes you have no way of knowing.

Have you ever noticed that standing in line for a long time is a lot like going to school? Remember when you went to school as a kid, you saw all these people who were older than you, you never knew them, never spoke to them, but you knew who they were. Because the younger ones always look up to the older ones. You would see them on the bus or in the supermarket and you would know they went to your school. On the contrary, they didn't care about you. So you got a little older and suddenly you were the age they were back then. And you see all these younger kids around the school, but you never pay much attention to them, do you? When you were their age, you knew the older ones, but now you don't bother with the younger kids.

It's like that with standing in line for something. You notice the people in front of you (granted, not surprisingly, given that you are oriented toward them) and you wish you could be where they are. But you don't care to see the people behind you, do you? What the hell for?