I Will Derive

I was checking out this math blog (wild about math) when I found this funny video about calculus. It is the song that says ”I will survive” modified so that it talks of calculus. If you don’t understand the calculus references, read my previous post about calculus.

Oh, and if you are a math fan, you should go and try to solve the Monday Math Madness.

Breathe Vacuum…

…if you can. I was reading badastronomy, and I got across this gem. Basically, it is a questionnaire, and based on the answers, it tells you how long you could survive in the vacuum. I am kind of skeptical about it, but hey, it is fun. This is what I got:

Dying in the vacuum must be really unpleasant. Your eardrum pops, moisture from your body dehydrates, your cappillaries burst, you bleed and other stuffs leak through orifices, pressure in veins and arteries build up until the blood boils, you can’t breathe, and I don’t know what else. Imagine the unpleasantness of that! And you would be conscious for about 15 seconds. That is a lot, considering how unpleasant this is, and no, you won’t explode. If I am wrong in any of these assertions (except the exploding one, since I know I am right in that one), correct me, k?

School is Almost Back!! NOOOOO…

…NOOOOOO!!!! Woo! I feel relaxed now that I vented it all out. I got my schedule (school didn’t start yet). They screwed up. I tried also getting a study hall, but they eliminated it!! Instead, it is a stupid pass fail class called reading and research. Sounds stupid. I got 4 AP classes. It is not going to be a relaxing year. I think I can take it, though. The two AP classes I had last year wasn’t too hard. The work part, though, is on the heavy side. Also, they didn’t have me on calculus because *mocking tone* “it is too much for me.” I self taught myself some calculus. Take that, suckers! Also, they didn’t have AP physics. BOO!! They don’t have a strong science department. Science, my favourite subject, is being trampled at, and spit at (metaphorically). *sigh*

Then there are other problems. Those include: bad teachers, bad science teacher (that is a separate problem, k?), sucky cafeteria food (even I can cook better! what kind of chiefs are they?), boring lunch time, boring classes, math class with no historical context or teaching of proofing or intuitive grasping of stuffs, uneducated masses wandering around the hallway uttering stupid stuffs, stupid testing in courtesy of All Child Left Behind* and Collegeboard, and other academic blunders that make want to extend this complain to thousands of pages. I can’t wait to get out of this hellhole. Though, if I get out of this hellhole, I would miss the people I know.

*Actually, it is No Child Left Behind, but I disagree.

Reading Marathon (day 4)

I finished One Hundred Years of Solitude! My, what a depressing story. In part because a lot of people die since the story is in the long time frame of 100 years. In part because it ends with the absolute anhililation, and it has been predicted by this one man. The best part of the book is probably the end. It is strangely fantastic. Basically, he reads a bunch of parchments that a guy wrote a hundred years ago, and he translated it. It records everything that has happened in the family, and as he reaches to the end, he is reading about himself reading it, while a gust that will destroy the town is approaching. This makes me think that he is actually reading the book One Hundred Years of Solitude himself. It is almost as if this book is written because the town existed. (I know it is fictional, K? Just use your imagination ) There is something fantastic about the realization of it. I don’t know what makes this part make me think it is so brilliant. It was basically a self fulfilling prophecy. It happened because he wanted to check the parchments, and it happened because certain characters knew the future. The very act of reading that parchment sealed the character’s destiny. If he would have just left like most of all other people…

Judgement: The book is large in scope, very epic and imaginative, but I found it boring for many parts, unfortunately.

Now, on to the House of the Spirits and essay!! *groan*