Last Day at PGSS

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*Sigh* It’s that time again: time for departures and good byes.

I hate that. I spend 5 weeks getting used to my peers and the environment. Then all of a sudden, just when I become comfortable with this new lifestyle, time comes in and flips the bed that you are sleeping on over in the middle of the night.

To be truthful however, I am also relieved that I am going back to my good ol’ home. I can only handle a certain threshold of 2-3 hour sleep nights and college food. I need to eat rice and chinese cooking. It’s built into my genes.

In a semi-good way, I haven’t particularly become attached to anyone here. I became decent friends with a few people here, but nothing really more. I will certainly miss their help and company, but my friends back at home are just as cool–in different ways of course.

Leaving this year was a lot easier than last year. Besides the awesome classes here, I have really nothing else to miss. I was packing today for the grueling 9ish hour train ride back home, and I was feeling quite good until my roommate started playing sad, leaving-type music. It made me sentimental and caused me to think about life here. I made it through PGSS. I am now an alumnus of this prestegious program. It’s kind of like a feeling of graduation, I suppose. Everyone was in this together. Everyone worked through long nights and difficult days. Now, I can’t believe that this is the end. Never again, will the exact same thing happen again. The people here are awesome. I wish I could continue courses here instead of going back to school.

So, I hate saying goodbyes.

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Goal for today: Download and Upload to Gnutella

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My goal for today is to construct a method to download and upload to the gnutella network using Java.

Lone Wolf and Cub 6 and 7!

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Yay, I went with Jongjin to the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh today and checked out Lone Wolf and Cub vols 6 and 7. Yay! I love that series of manga. It’s simply amazing! The library is amazing too!

George Wang

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George Wang is well, George Wang. He’s going to be the evil dictation of the world in a couple of years. He has strange but awesome rhetoric that everyone copies. He has the coolest evil laugh too! I’m not kidding, people just randomly quote George Wang….even I do! It’s so natural and addicting, and thus I bring you the George Wang quotes:

  • *slowing while evily twiddling thumbs* “Plunder and Raaavage…”
  • *in a really evil tone* “Murrrderr……Muhahahahahaha!”
  • *drawing out the phrase while stroking the chin* “Ahhhh, yessssssss”
  • “[insert something really bad or evil]…Brandon”
  • *Evil dictator laugh* “Muhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!”
  • “I will be the evil dictation of the world…mwohahaha!”
  • As George Wang would say, “I found that mildly huuuuuuuuuumorous.â€?
  • “Ah yes? Ah yes.â€?
  • “We will go to Armenia, and ravage her, like Candiiiiiiiiiiiiiiide.â€?
  • “Yatrik boy! Bombay kid!â€?
  • “What will happen when your brain is merged with Eugene’s?â€?
  • “I will…â€? *violent motions of stabbing and goring*
  • “Call me George W.â€?
  • *threateningly* “DAAAAAAAAAAAAVE.â€?
  • “Adulturererers.â€?
  • *menacingly* “Tuuuuuuuubuuuuuuuuuuules!â€?
  • “In the future, when I begin the massively derived PARP campaign of warfare and conquest, Europe, with its attractive Caucasian females, will be annexed. Digression: there are two females implied. I’m sure you know who I’m referring to. (contributed by George Wang himself)
  • “The military loves it’s privates.â€?
  • “The lowest rank in the navy is semen.â€?

Oh man, anyone want to add more? Post in the comments!

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Brandon quotes

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Brandon D. is such a funny kid. He makes all sorts of noises…

  • “Oh, I know you didn’t!”
  • Ohh shi*!”
  • “Umm…hm!” (out of the blue)
  • “Plunder and raaavage” (imitating George W.)
  • “That’s tinnintabulous!â€?
  • “George Wang, I love you, not the way a man loves a man, but the way a man loves a woman.â€?

Anyone care to add more? Just post in comments.

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Last night’s No-talent show

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The no-talent show yesterday was filled with fun and inside jokes. Among the many quotes…

Some girl: “…It won’t go in! It’s too long!” (Referring to special relativity)
Some kid behind me (now identified as Puru): “Yeah, that’s what she said.”
Everyone: *laff*

Liz: “Um….um….ummmm…uum”

Kyle: *high pitched voice* “Oh?”

and many, many, many more. Since Puru found my journal, perhaps other PGSS students may have ventured here. If so, does anyone care to add a quote or two? It’ll help me a lot :).

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Met ESM developers group

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Had lunch with the ESM developers group today. Dr. Hui Zhang is pretty cool! In the group discussion, he was joking about using HDTV streams for “educational purposes.” Then there was a codec discussion and the evil microsoft usual stuff :). In computer science lab now.

Biology Chime work and procrastination

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Well, I’m currently procrastinating, and after I type this, I think I shall go work on my biology homework. Hopefully, I’ll be able to get some chem work done too!

Properties of Various Intermetallics (Pr-Co, Sm-Co, Pr-Cu, Tm-Fe, Ni-Gd, Tm-Ni, La-Ni, and Tb-Fe)

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For the PGSS Material Science elective, I was part of a team that authored a paper on properties of various intermetallics. The cool part is that I managed to convince members of the group to write it in LaTeX. It came out fairly well too even though it was the result of last minute work (6:30PM -10:30PM).

Access paper:
Properties of Various Intermetallics (Pr-Co, Sm-Co, Pr-Cu, Tm-Fe, Ni-Gd, Tm-Ni, La-Ni, and Tb-Fe) (pdf format: 123KB)
by Mike Coolbaugh, Michael Huynh, Jongjin Kim, Kyle Lawton, Reid Van Lehn, Andrew McGuier, Nathan Mendendez, Louis Wang, and Yiying Xu
for the Pennsylvania Governor’s School
at the Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University

Ghettos in M-town

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Penguin: “[People try to act all ghetto in Merrimack.] They walk up to me and say: ‘Yo, What’s up in the m-town?’ and I’m just like: ‘no.’”

Just no :).

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