renovatio.wordpress.com vs. renovatio.freepgs.com

Well, it seems I made the move to wordpress.com from my own webspace. Logically, it makes sense. Here I have 3 gigs of space, all the themes that I could ever want, and no hassles with upgrading and worrying about security. Great. My pride, though, doesn’t like being dependent on a blogging service. Oh well.

What I am going to use my web space for is something a little different. An actual website. I think I’m going to set up an online community for me, my family, my friends, friends of my friends, etc. Something where we can all keep in touch. I know facebook is already out, I’m not behind the times. The point of this is, how well can you really carry out a conversation on facebook? It’s impossible! Maybe on a forum it won’t be so tough…

Anyway, this migration is eating up my time. I have two midterms after my break ends, and both of which will require at least a couple days of studying. On top of that, I need to actually finish my resume, send it to my uncle, and see if I can find something to do over the summer. Oh, and I need to finish the switch from MAT 204 to MAT 202…<br/>

Yes, I did switch down. Why? Because I got a C on my midterm. And I can’t afford to have another bad final grade in a class, especially because Princeton doesn’t let you retake classes to get a better grade. Weird policy if you ask me. Then again, I’m in the position where I want to retake a class. Hmm..

A Princeton math professor

Throughout the course of my first semester, my math professor, Alex, said a few memorable quotes. I wrote them down, and now I feel like sharing them.

“If you can parametrize this equation you can prove that all of 20th century mathematics is bullshit.”

“It’s like saying God exists, saying that a particle goes to its lowest energy.”

“I don’t know much about screws; I screw something once every three years.”

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Student: “After we take the midterm, do we still have classes?”

Alex cocks head: “I suspect so.”

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Alex: “How will this one [problem] look?”

Student: “The same way…?”

Alex: “Are you sure? Are you really sure?”

Student: “Yea…”

Alex: “Yeah okay, you’re right.”

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Alex: “Just put your surveys here, I actually have to run away today.”

Student: “Run away!”

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Student: “Hey Alex, where are you going for fall break?”

Alex: “Boston and then Chicago.”

Student: “How come?”

Alex: “I’m going to give talks on string theory.”

Student: “Oh that’s cool! So you think strings exist?”

Alex: “I don’t really care.”

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“Aristotle once said everything goes to its natural position; a stone falls and for man his natural position is his grave.”

“It’s called z simple, but they should say z not so simple.” (When talking about triple integration)