The weekend is here, unfortunately it doesn't seem to bring with it the joy and harmony of having spare time to do as I please with. On the contrary I need to read, study and work with several things which I ain't too keen on working on. My last week at the first summer job is coming, and it is for the moment hard to see whether I have some good results to hand in from it or not. At least this week has given more results, and discussion with Melvyn, as any other....including the time on my Bachelor project.
Next week I will have to concentrate on finishing the last final calculations, which the project really was aiming at attaining the results from, and nicely organize all my plots and comments for him to understand it well.
I hope I won't run into too many difficulties the first days of next week, as I have no supervisor available to aid me until wednesday when Daniel returns. But I sure as hell am going to give my best!
Otherwise I have to read, read and read on the book which works as course literature for the researcher summer camp in Lithuania. Especially I have to concentrate on the questions we have to answer before we travel there. Seven of them, but all of them not so easy as the ones I've already managed to answer. It will probably be a difficult two weeks, but I will gain lots of experience, knowledge and maybe hopefully also some new friends.
But I must say that it feels really good now to be able to title yourself Bachelor of physics with special degree in astronomy. Try to say that three times quickly! I'm on the hunt for the love of my life now again, you could think it was due time for me to find a new girlfriend really. Well let's hope fate is on my side, and a bit of luck I guess.
Hopefully we will have another evening of board games on monday, and me and Fredrik sure are hoping for another round of Descent then. Playing Dragon quest sure made me thirsty for more monster blood at least.
I have set my mind on mp3-player now, a Creative Zen 8gb and on Monday I will send away my order and hopefully get it soon to play with. Then I will give myself another week to decide on a new mobile. Then I'm fully pimped and ready to meet the end of the summer and crash and burn into the new term.
lördag 19 juli 2008
tisdag 15 juli 2008
Hi, ho, and a bottle of rom!
Okey I wasn't totally butchered, I am actually more or less unharmed, honestly. Although the meeting I had which resulted in the examination of myself, didn't go so well anyhow. It will take some weeks more before all the people have had their likewise meeting, and hopefully I at least will find out what grade I finally got in start of august. Until then I'll be worried as hell, although of course most of the days my mind will be busy with the summer project I am doing for Melvyn. I am currently working on reproducing a plot done in a previous article, but somehow I can't get it right. I can't get it through my head, the questions keeps stalking me...the wondering, that puzzling feeling. Today I've at least tried setting my mind off it by composing some music, unfortunately it doesn't seem to be a very good day for creativity. Should try to find something to do which isn't too dependent on my mood, whatever that could be now.
Unfortunately not much has happened lately, not anything worth mentioning at least. Right now it's all about making the hours fly, and get ready for the next day. I guess I should try finding something better to do....
Unfortunately not much has happened lately, not anything worth mentioning at least. Right now it's all about making the hours fly, and get ready for the next day. I guess I should try finding something better to do....
tisdag 8 juli 2008
To the slaughterhouse
Although things have improved a little since last time, the worst is still ahead of me. On thursday comes the day of evaluation of my bachelor thesis, and after reading through my report yesterday I am expecting a slaughter of wide proportions. Maybe it won't be that bad, but I rather go in there expecting the worst and get positively surprised, than getting worse than I expected. And after the evaluation meeting, I am meeting up with Daniel, and maybe Melvyn as well, to present my results so far.
A quick review of what I am doing might be in place. I am constructing a catalogue of clusters within our Galaxy, with all parameters computed so far such as age, size and mass. Sounds easy maybe but its harder than it may seem, first finding the bigger catalogues so far out there and then cross-reference them to see how much overlap they have. Well it is a valuable experience, and I hope to learn a lot from working on this. During the weekend I had my birthday party for my Lund-friends, and the gifts I had was.....well diverging greatly in nature. A rolling pin was the first gift, useful and practical. The second was a little card game named Condottiere, which I hope to be able to test someday soon. But the third was a kitchen apron, in pink with angels and glistening on. Very cute indeed, maybe I will post a picture of it later, haven't decided if the shame is worth it yet.
During the weekend I have come to a decision on what mp3-player to buy finally; a Creative Zen 8gb. I've had it with cheaper players of unknown manufacturers, my last player was from Adamond and it went crazy on me after new year's eve. Well they didn't have it in stock where I wanted to buy it so I will hold a while more before I order, the most important thing is that I have it before the end of July when I possibly am going home again for a week.
And I've kinda put my mind on to what mobile I am gonna buy as well, Nokia N82. Despite Nokia's bad battery-time, it has the best camera as far as I can see. And with that GPS and WLAN, but it's a hard choice between Nokia N82 and Sony-ericsson C902 really. C902 has chromatic aberration, meaning that the light is dispersed differently depending on its wavelength. This causes effects like rainbow patterns especially visible in areas with large contrasts, a rooftop against the sky for example. I won't rush my decision, I am gonna use this mobile for a while still so.
Too bad though that it seems I can't use either of Tele2 or Telia's student offer when buying my mobile, but have to order them separately. I can hope something better is introduced before I decide to buy a new mobile (which I at least hope will be before my Lithuania trip, or at least before start of the new term).
A quick review of what I am doing might be in place. I am constructing a catalogue of clusters within our Galaxy, with all parameters computed so far such as age, size and mass. Sounds easy maybe but its harder than it may seem, first finding the bigger catalogues so far out there and then cross-reference them to see how much overlap they have. Well it is a valuable experience, and I hope to learn a lot from working on this. During the weekend I had my birthday party for my Lund-friends, and the gifts I had was.....well diverging greatly in nature. A rolling pin was the first gift, useful and practical. The second was a little card game named Condottiere, which I hope to be able to test someday soon. But the third was a kitchen apron, in pink with angels and glistening on. Very cute indeed, maybe I will post a picture of it later, haven't decided if the shame is worth it yet.
During the weekend I have come to a decision on what mp3-player to buy finally; a Creative Zen 8gb. I've had it with cheaper players of unknown manufacturers, my last player was from Adamond and it went crazy on me after new year's eve. Well they didn't have it in stock where I wanted to buy it so I will hold a while more before I order, the most important thing is that I have it before the end of July when I possibly am going home again for a week.
And I've kinda put my mind on to what mobile I am gonna buy as well, Nokia N82. Despite Nokia's bad battery-time, it has the best camera as far as I can see. And with that GPS and WLAN, but it's a hard choice between Nokia N82 and Sony-ericsson C902 really. C902 has chromatic aberration, meaning that the light is dispersed differently depending on its wavelength. This causes effects like rainbow patterns especially visible in areas with large contrasts, a rooftop against the sky for example. I won't rush my decision, I am gonna use this mobile for a while still so.
Too bad though that it seems I can't use either of Tele2 or Telia's student offer when buying my mobile, but have to order them separately. I can hope something better is introduced before I decide to buy a new mobile (which I at least hope will be before my Lithuania trip, or at least before start of the new term).
tisdag 1 juli 2008
Keep moving forward
Oh, how time flies! The bachelor exam ended with nothing but stress, stress, stress! In the end I did hand in a report, but with too many flaws. Nothing is perfect in the eyes of the maker I guess..... Let's hope it won't ruin my changes of a higher grade than passed. As I understand I will know it for sure by the end of next week when I will have an evaluation meeting. I'll keep my hopes up until then.
On the 28th of June I became more of a man than I had been before, I turned 23 and got older. My brother Markus, along with his girlfriend and a work companion from my summer job celebrated me the day before. It was beer, chips, new and old stories from work and...yeah a 50euro bottle of "fake" champagne also. Nice way to end my 22nd year, but I am still disappointed with the start of my 23rd year, although I hope it will improve. After that ending of my 22nd year, I went along with my brothers and Emmeli to our parents' summer cottage and spent some time. Relatives came to celebrate me and it ended with a nice barbeque on the evening with the family. The day after I headed back to Lund, where I am sitting now after my 2nd day on my summer job for this year.
Mostly this day has been devastating. My meeting with Melvyn, which I am working for the past 4 weeks, and Daniel went horribly. I felt like a moron walking out from it, completely made a fool of myself as my head wasn't working with me at all when Melvyn asked me his questions. Life might be cruel but this was a massacre. Maybe this about being a researcher is to aim too high for me anyway? I'll make it through this summer, and the coming two years and I'll make up my mind then. Need to find more to do except studying though, luckily there will be some board gaming this summer which hopefully will set my mind of Melvyn, galaxies and the universe's dynamics.
I hope to buy a new mobile soon now, one with a decent camera, so that I can have some pictures posted here soon enough also. Then this blog will be filled with colorfol pictures from my daily life...or gray I don't know yet. Well well, times flies but unfortunately the dirt on the dishes doesn't. Back to reality.
On the 28th of June I became more of a man than I had been before, I turned 23 and got older. My brother Markus, along with his girlfriend and a work companion from my summer job celebrated me the day before. It was beer, chips, new and old stories from work and...yeah a 50euro bottle of "fake" champagne also. Nice way to end my 22nd year, but I am still disappointed with the start of my 23rd year, although I hope it will improve. After that ending of my 22nd year, I went along with my brothers and Emmeli to our parents' summer cottage and spent some time. Relatives came to celebrate me and it ended with a nice barbeque on the evening with the family. The day after I headed back to Lund, where I am sitting now after my 2nd day on my summer job for this year.
Mostly this day has been devastating. My meeting with Melvyn, which I am working for the past 4 weeks, and Daniel went horribly. I felt like a moron walking out from it, completely made a fool of myself as my head wasn't working with me at all when Melvyn asked me his questions. Life might be cruel but this was a massacre. Maybe this about being a researcher is to aim too high for me anyway? I'll make it through this summer, and the coming two years and I'll make up my mind then. Need to find more to do except studying though, luckily there will be some board gaming this summer which hopefully will set my mind of Melvyn, galaxies and the universe's dynamics.
I hope to buy a new mobile soon now, one with a decent camera, so that I can have some pictures posted here soon enough also. Then this blog will be filled with colorfol pictures from my daily life...or gray I don't know yet. Well well, times flies but unfortunately the dirt on the dishes doesn't. Back to reality.
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