Another exciting day... Some highlights:
- Signed up for classes. I'm taking Readings in World List for Hum, Classics of Social and Political Thought for Soc, calulus, and 3D Graphics (which might be kinda silly because I've written a 3D graphics engine, and the course seems to be on OpenGL, not the theory of 3D graphics).
- Went on tour of The Regg (the biggest library on campus, with over 4.5 of the 7 million items U of C has) and saw Enrico Fermi's Nobel prize, and a letter CC'd to Fermi (with a hand written note) dating back to 1939, which discusses the possibility of using nuclear energy as a weapon.
- Had job interview with USITE. I won't know for sure until next week, but I think it went really well. The opening is for one of the two major labs that they have, and it sounds like a pretty good job. Starts at $10/hour, and they have very flexible hours (the labs are open until 1am).
- Over dinner, decided with a bunch of friends to go on a crusade to turn Squirrel Fishing into an inter-house sport (or some form of tradition) at U of C. I've written a draft of the ground rules, and we're planning on doing a trial run sometime in the next couple of days. So far, there are 4 people involved (and another person has shown interest), which means we just need 1 or 2 people to start an RSO (an official student organization).
- We then went to Doc films (the nation's oldest film society) to watch a bunch of short films made by Fire Escape Productions (a student film-production group), which ranged from entertaining to extremely bizzarre...
- Party at Reynolds... not too much there. All the food was gone by the time we got there. Except, I got to watch Peter work on his new writing system. In the process, he described a binary system that might act as a high-density barcode replacement. Basically, each character would be capable of representing 16-bits (i.e. 2 bytes).
- Oatmeal at Nicky's. I started the day with oatmeal, ended it with oatmeal... Yay for oatmeal.
Posted Thu, September 25, 2003 05:18 by dirvish
There definately needs to be an Official University of Chicago Squirrel Fishing Team Website. Let me know when you have it up... :)
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