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Liquid Nitrogen Physics Lab

That was fun. For our last physics lab, we played with liquid nitrogen to predict what the absolute zero of temperature is. I think we got -275 degreees Celsius. That’s less than 2 degrees off from the real value, I think. Since we were playing with liquid nitrogen, students were throwing all kinds of things…Continue Reading…

Mark Study Adventure

Instead of Mark Study tonight, we had to go and do something to love other people. We thought long and hard, and finally decided to go out and talk with people, and then pray for them. We assigned into random pairs, but there were no mixed gender pairs. I wonder what the chances of that…Continue Reading…

UCLA’s harder to get into?

Someone on CollegeConfidential (thread) thought UCLA is harder to get into than USC. Based on the facts, that idea appears to be wrong. Copying from my post – They’re equally hard to get into. USC might be even a little harder to get into than UCLA. In 2005: UCLA had a 26.90% admit rate. USC…Continue Reading…

Disney Imagineering and Geoffrey Fox

Midnight Message time. I wonder what people who find my blog via search engines think of these. One thing that really amazes me is that a post I wrote about 2 weeks ago, Chuck Norris Jokes, now ranks #4 in Google for the search “Chuck Norris Jokes”, and people are leaving comments with more jokes….Continue Reading…

Google Presentation at USC

It’s 12:04. Time for a Midnight Message. Overview of the day. Awoke, had breakfast at EVK, took my last Econ Quiz, had lunch with Sam, went to Physics, went to Minors Workshop, went to Google presentation, and then went to Mark Study. Mostly a full day. What I’m going to write about in this post…Continue Reading…

Monday report

I think it has been awhile since I wrote about my life, so here’s something. Yesterday was Monday. I woke up in time for breakfast and then went to tennis at 11. We’re going to have our performance exam next week. I’m not too worried because I’m only taking the class pass/fail. I do need…Continue Reading…