bruce, my host-dad - the ridiculous picture of the day 

the end is near

Two more days and I am done! Tomorrow I have a statistics test and on Monday at 9 a Kinetics take home is due. A's are assured in every class but kinetics, where I'll have to make sure that I pay close attention to details. I need a high A on this final take home. Today I found out that I don't have to take the final on Numerical Linear Algebra. I guess it was worth it to work on the open ended take home problem. I didn't do too hot on it, but it was enough to give me an overall A in the class. Also on Monday I am taking a math test that will assess how good the UofA math department is. I want do my best, so maybe I will open the Cal book to refresh my memory a little bit but I won't have to study or anything like that. Now back to statistics, thankyouverymuch.

freshman days 

Savor the Flavor

I just came back from the above named event that took place here in Fayetteville. AYL (some university program) gave out free tickets - worth $30 - so I couldn't miss free food. The idea was to give a sample of the dining scene here in town. 30 restaurants participated and we toured 15 of them. I had a great time and it seemed like a great idea to have the opportunity to restaurant-hop. Because my parents are coming to visit for graduation in a week I have to note down some impressions for the new restaurants that I stopped by tonight:

Ozark Mountain Smokehouse - I voted it the BEST

• incredible atmosphere, cute patio, great Sangria, and delicious meat pastry

1936 Cafe/Bistro

• great shrimp cakes, cool place

Bordino's

• yummy lasagna, weird setup in the diamond store (Why do people by diamonds anyway?I'll never be able to get married. I am so screwd.)
  
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• upscale pretentious food, tasty I should add. Not the place where I would go if I was hungry.

Gelateria Scarpino

• cute edgy place, tiramisu gelatto was da bomb

Hog Haus Brewing Place

• all they had was schrimp and grits, and I don't like either. We left without trying it and the chef was offended by it. I felt bad. I wanted to try it, for courtesy, but Sarah and Jason decided to leave. And now how do I know if maybe that was the food that would have turned me into a sea-food lover, huh?

Hugo's

• they had a margarita, but the place looked very American

Jammin Java

• it looked like the place with the best atmosphere, plus they had the best coffee I've had in town

Loafin Joe's

• we go there all the time, so nothing new, except the fact that I tried a spicy chicken sandwich that I was hesitant to order before. Very gooooood.

North Korea at night

An article in Slate argues that North Korea is a big labor camp, where the standards of 1984 have long been surpassed. Here is the most compelling evidence.


North Korea at night

more files

I just finished updating my website with some more papers. Today I worked on finishing my honors thesis for good. Tomorrow I will turn it in at the Honors Office and I will submit it for the undergraduate research journal on campus. The top 3 research projects will receive $1000 each. I doubt that mine has a chance at being that high on the list, but I need the money so bad that the slightest possibility of winning the prize convinced me to submit it. I also put up some old Pchem lab reports. Some of them are weak, some are OK ... eh, they equally remind me of good sophomore times. I'll have more goodies soon.

To see what I have posted so far go to My Homepage and then Writing.