I skipped class today to sleep in and get well. Both of my classes, actually. The sleep was good, but this cold is stubborn.
Mid-afternoon I’m walking to work when I run into my friend and classmate Matt:
Me: Hey Matt, how was religion class today?
Matt: I wasn’t there, were you?
Me: No, I skipped and [...]

Posted on February 23rd, 2005 by Lee
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I was doing so well this term.
I stayed up till 4:30 in the morning talking to my housemates and didn’t get sick. My friends, housemates, roommates, girlfriend all got sick, and I didn’t get sick. I went to New Orleans, danced like crazy, basically didn’t sleep for 3 days, and didn’t get sick.
But [...]

Posted on February 23rd, 2005 by Lee
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I have entered the blogging doldrums.
It had to happen sometime. Sooner or later, you realize that you’re not just making occasional excuses for not writing enough. At some point, you know that you’re consistently not holding yourself to the standard you want out of yourself.
I’m not ready to give up on this little [...]

Posted on February 21st, 2005 by Lee
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It’s been a rough couple of days.
As you set out for Ithaka
hope your road is a long one,
full of adventure, full of discovery.
Laistrygonians, Cyclops,
angry Poseidon-don’t be afraid of them:
you’ll never find things like that on your way
as long as you keep your thoughts raised high,
as long as a rare excitement
stirs your spirit [...]

Posted on February 15th, 2005 by Lee
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The Lagrange multiplier: Work of the devil, or opiate of the masses?
If you haven’t had enough calculus to know what I’m talking about… be thankful. Roughly speaking, imagine taking a function of three or more variables and finding its extreme values with respect to a constraint represented by another function of three or more [...]

Posted on February 13th, 2005 by Lee
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