it looks like my career at ucla will last for a total of 5 quarters--10 weeks each. well, today is wednesday of the 5th week of my 3rd quarter here. that's exactly half-way over. i just realized that today. i find this really hard to believe, and i find it incredibly easy to opt out of doing events, meeting people, or getting involved on-campus due to the thought that i'll be gone from here in only 25 weeks from. i'm trying not to do this, though.
during the last week, i attended ucla's/LA times' annual festival of books. it has 140,000 attendees, 6 stages of entertainment, enough food to feed a small country, and tons of book signings. i got the autograph and picture of kareem abdul-jabbar and winnie cooper. today, i attended an on-campus event, too--bj novak (ryan from the office) spoke and had Q&A. afterwards, he had 1-1 time, allowing select students to individually come up and speak w/ and photograph him. i left, did some math proof(s), then went back upstairs, hoping that he'll be done with everyone and maybe i could see him. somehow, my timing could not have been more perfect. i was very lucky: i walked up into the empty 4,000-person-capacity room and saw him and the ucla CAB-rep walking toward me. i casually went up to him and said, 'hey bj, ah, i hoped you might still be here.' i then asked for his autograph and said that i really enjoy the show and that he does good work. we gave head nods, i walked off, and then joined the remaining circle of 5 other ucla CAB students and his manager. sweet.
anyway, yea, it's sobering to think that my time here in LA is half-way over. i don't think i've done nearly as many arsty or culturally-based events as i planned to do. i've seen more celebrities than i imagined (flava flav, pharrell, kevin smith, steve balmer, creators of google, etc), but that was never my interest or goal.
i guess my time in california can be divided into 4 distinct periods:
(1) summer at google: much fun w/ interns; basic touristy exploration
(2) 1st quarter at UCLA: pretty disciplined, yet hung out w/ brian tons of times. we had a blast, but he's pretty much an alcoholic. jk. but seriously, he's infertile.
(3) 2nd quarter at UCLA: did almost no school work. flew out of town 4 times during the quarter, and interviewed w/ tons of places--most didn't want me
(4) 3rd quarter at UCLA: finally getting a decent balance and trying to be healthy.
during the last week, i attended ucla's/LA times' annual festival of books. it has 140,000 attendees, 6 stages of entertainment, enough food to feed a small country, and tons of book signings. i got the autograph and picture of kareem abdul-jabbar and winnie cooper. today, i attended an on-campus event, too--bj novak (ryan from the office) spoke and had Q&A. afterwards, he had 1-1 time, allowing select students to individually come up and speak w/ and photograph him. i left, did some math proof(s), then went back upstairs, hoping that he'll be done with everyone and maybe i could see him. somehow, my timing could not have been more perfect. i was very lucky: i walked up into the empty 4,000-person-capacity room and saw him and the ucla CAB-rep walking toward me. i casually went up to him and said, 'hey bj, ah, i hoped you might still be here.' i then asked for his autograph and said that i really enjoy the show and that he does good work. we gave head nods, i walked off, and then joined the remaining circle of 5 other ucla CAB students and his manager. sweet.
anyway, yea, it's sobering to think that my time here in LA is half-way over. i don't think i've done nearly as many arsty or culturally-based events as i planned to do. i've seen more celebrities than i imagined (flava flav, pharrell, kevin smith, steve balmer, creators of google, etc), but that was never my interest or goal.
i guess my time in california can be divided into 4 distinct periods:
(1) summer at google: much fun w/ interns; basic touristy exploration
(2) 1st quarter at UCLA: pretty disciplined, yet hung out w/ brian tons of times. we had a blast, but he's pretty much an alcoholic. jk. but seriously, he's infertile.
(3) 2nd quarter at UCLA: did almost no school work. flew out of town 4 times during the quarter, and interviewed w/ tons of places--most didn't want me
(4) 3rd quarter at UCLA: finally getting a decent balance and trying to be healthy.
What did you prove?
ReplyDeletejust some cs181 (FLAT) hw:
ReplyDelete(1) used closure properties of finite-state languages to prove that if L is finite-state, then SANDWICH(L) is finite-state, where SANDWICH(L) = {wyz | y E L and x,z E {0,1}*}
(2) used inverse-homomorphism and closure properties of FSL to show that {11(01)^i (10)^i 00 | i>=0} is not finite-state
YOU BASTARD!
ReplyDeletebut really, i like the last part of your post. we all shape our own narratives.
... I wanted you...
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