Yeah, that's pretty much what this part of the world thinks about that particular season. Seriously now, it's supposed to be the season of so much cold that we're all supposes to be cursing it on Eminem scales. But over here it's more like the weather just doesn't have that sadistic quality that I've become all to familiar with while living in Delhi. Invariably, when I go outside the dorm, the sun's either out already or it comes out in five minutes or so. This place just mocks Winter. It's brilliant. The second funny thing I've discovered is that no one closes doors here. The Age of Closing Doors™ has passed. Doors are just expected to do the closing bit on their own. In fact, all the doors are electronically hooked up, so that, in the case of a fire, they close automatically, even if they've been kept open.
Things get even rosier though. Not only do I have almost perpetual sunshine and doors that close on their own but I'm writing this on the prettiest and fastest computer that I have ever used. Yes sirree, the iMac has arrived. Perhaps I'll write a long treatise about the iMac and about Rosetta performance either here or on Impulsive Highlighters quite soon. It'll either be tomorrow or next week, because I can take out time to blog only on the weekends. As far as Rosetta goes, should it be enough to say that Warcraft III runs smooth as butter with every option maxed out and screen resolution set to 1680x1050x32? Well, the answer is no, and I guess you'll find out more when I write about it in more detail.
In other news, the agonizing march of the midterm exams has begun. Like true mathematicians, the math midterm doesn't take place in the middle of the term - oh no! How simplistic that would be, I shudder to think. Instead, we have two midterms, aptly named Midterm I and Midterm II, one that's already taken place and one that'll take place probably early next month such that the average of the two exams will look somewhat like the 'middle' of a term. While I was thinking about midterms, I also realized precisely how short the terms here at Stanford are. Let's see - the term began on the 10th of January - that's about a month ago. And the term will finish in about a month from now. Measely. Time really does aviate here.
Abrupt as always.
Things get even rosier though. Not only do I have almost perpetual sunshine and doors that close on their own but I'm writing this on the prettiest and fastest computer that I have ever used. Yes sirree, the iMac has arrived. Perhaps I'll write a long treatise about the iMac and about Rosetta performance either here or on Impulsive Highlighters quite soon. It'll either be tomorrow or next week, because I can take out time to blog only on the weekends. As far as Rosetta goes, should it be enough to say that Warcraft III runs smooth as butter with every option maxed out and screen resolution set to 1680x1050x32? Well, the answer is no, and I guess you'll find out more when I write about it in more detail.
In other news, the agonizing march of the midterm exams has begun. Like true mathematicians, the math midterm doesn't take place in the middle of the term - oh no! How simplistic that would be, I shudder to think. Instead, we have two midterms, aptly named Midterm I and Midterm II, one that's already taken place and one that'll take place probably early next month such that the average of the two exams will look somewhat like the 'middle' of a term. While I was thinking about midterms, I also realized precisely how short the terms here at Stanford are. Let's see - the term began on the 10th of January - that's about a month ago. And the term will finish in about a month from now. Measely. Time really does aviate here.
Abrupt as always.
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