Archive for October, 2008

I got Babakued!

Friday, October 31st, 2008

It was EE20N quiz today!
It was alright, cause a short survey showed that quite a lot of people in the whole class didn’t quite get the entire problem in page 2 as well, which is basically the same fate as mine.
22/45. (mean unknown at point of writing)
UPDATE:  Mean was 19.4269/45 and the standard deviation was [...]

Nothing

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

So I guess that “Guest” is right.
Ern Sheong is one heck of a self-centered person. (Sorry I deleted your message from my Shoutbox cause I was not in a right mood when I read it. Coupled with the fact that it was anonymous and I was not having the best of days.)
I guess no one [...]

What a week

Saturday, October 18th, 2008

It was a week of sorts. I realise that my body has grown accustomed to only 5 hours (and less) of sleep on weekdays. Haha.
I learned a new term in Berkeley:
“bombed”
Usage is as follows:
“I bombed my midterm yesterday.”
Meaning: You totally screwed up that midterm.
Usage in personal context in a sentence:
“I bombed my Comp Sci. 61A [...]

An Analysis of UC Berkeley’s rankings in the latest THE – QS World University Rankings 2008

Sunday, October 12th, 2008

THE – QS World University Rankings 2008
2005 Rankings:

Harvard University, United States
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Stanford University, United States
University of California, Berkeley, United States

2008/2007 Rankings:
2008/2007 Rankings
1/1 HARVARD University United States
2/2= YALE University United States
3/2= University of CAMBRIDGE United Kingdom
4/2= University of OXFORD United Kingdom
5/7= CALIFORNIA Institute of Technology (Calt… United States
6/5 [...]

A quick one

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

It was Computer Science 61A Office Hours.
My TA (Teaching Assistant) was illustrating data-directed programming, so he came up with an example of a grade-scores list.
First representation: (list of pairs)
((Sarah, -10) (Barack, 100) (John, 0))
Second representation: (list of two lists)
(Sarah, Barack, John)
(-10, 100, 0)
If you follow American politics you would know what I am talking about. [...]

My fingers are itchy, so I am gonna scratch it with my keyboard

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

Yesterday I did something which I had always wanted to do.
Walk out of an exam early.
Despite not studying much for the Physics 7A Midterm due to the many other midterms jammed together (I started the night before the exam), I did pretty well.
Ironically, it was the day when I thought that I was pretty stupid. [...]

Hmmm I don’t know what to put in the “Title” bar

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

Just had my Physics 7B midterm just now.
The thing is, I did many past midterm papers.
I was comfortable with their level of difficulty.
I felt really ready.
But.
Then I have this Professor named Andrew Charman who killed us all in an absurdly tough exam.
I was laughing in the exam (yes, literally laughing!) because the questions were like [...]