Randomness
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lyoreJust finished evil exam. Actually, not as evil as I was expecting. That doesn't mean it was good, just that I was expecting it to be really bad. Still, given that I have had no time to study and an increasing lack of sleep for the last week, it could have been worse. Anyway, over now, so all I have to stress over is the thing-which-must-not-be-named.
And speaking of exams, what's up with the invigilators? You know, when they come round at the end, and pick up all the papers? All we want to do is get the hell out of there, but they insist on walking up and down the rows s o v e r y s l o w l y. And they wander to the back of the room, then start picking up the papers on one side of the aisle, put them down the front, stop for a chat, wander back to the end of the room, turn around and walk back down the aisle they were just in, collecting the papers on the other side.
Has it not occurred to ANY of them that they could pick the papers from BOTH SIDES of the aisle on one trip? Arrgghh.
And another similarly random thought, which some of you may or may not appreciate. Went to a talk on bioterrorism and scary diseases, and have come to the conclusion that Physicists are far more secure in their intellectuality (is that a word?) than Biologists.
Why? Because when biologists have to name something new, they give it an indescipherable twenty-syllable word name, full of y's and z's and unthinkable combinations of letters. This is an obviously an attempt to impress non-biologists with their superior intellect (or possibly just their superior pronounciation skills).
However, when Physicists have something new to name, they call it something nice and short, like "quark", which anyone can say. Or "string theory". Short and sweet. Or something whimsical and amusing (to other physicist's, at least). "Strange" and "charm", "truth" and "beauty" spring to mind here. They have no need to invoke massive vocabularies full of twenty-syllable words to demonstrate their overwhelming "smartness".
It occurs to me now that I really need some sleep.
Random Observation of the Day - Pagination is a very cool word. But I always think it sounds like some kind of bad smell...
Thesis Update - It's still here. *sigh*
And speaking of exams, what's up with the invigilators? You know, when they come round at the end, and pick up all the papers? All we want to do is get the hell out of there, but they insist on walking up and down the rows s o v e r y s l o w l y. And they wander to the back of the room, then start picking up the papers on one side of the aisle, put them down the front, stop for a chat, wander back to the end of the room, turn around and walk back down the aisle they were just in, collecting the papers on the other side.
Has it not occurred to ANY of them that they could pick the papers from BOTH SIDES of the aisle on one trip? Arrgghh.
And another similarly random thought, which some of you may or may not appreciate. Went to a talk on bioterrorism and scary diseases, and have come to the conclusion that Physicists are far more secure in their intellectuality (is that a word?) than Biologists.
Why? Because when biologists have to name something new, they give it an indescipherable twenty-syllable word name, full of y's and z's and unthinkable combinations of letters. This is an obviously an attempt to impress non-biologists with their superior intellect (or possibly just their superior pronounciation skills).
However, when Physicists have something new to name, they call it something nice and short, like "quark", which anyone can say. Or "string theory". Short and sweet. Or something whimsical and amusing (to other physicist's, at least). "Strange" and "charm", "truth" and "beauty" spring to mind here. They have no need to invoke massive vocabularies full of twenty-syllable words to demonstrate their overwhelming "smartness".
It occurs to me now that I really need some sleep.
Random Observation of the Day - Pagination is a very cool word. But I always think it sounds like some kind of bad smell...
Thesis Update - It's still here. *sigh*
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Good luck!
Date: 2005-09-02 05:45 am (UTC)Cheers,
Pharaoh
Re: Good luck!
Date: 2005-09-02 07:50 am (UTC)