Waves & Electrostatics

Poooweeeeee!
Next tuesday I'll have my oral exam for Engineering of Complex Systems I. Exciting exciting!
Until now I've written summaries for regular wave theories and how to derive the wave equation. We will be treating at least one specific problem, "grandma's clothes line." I almost managed to solve it a second time but there's one thing I am missing somewhere which results in a -sign error.

Next semester will be prrrrretty cramped study experience I think.

Improperly impractical

How the hell did I manage to forget my glasses AND my contact case?!

Impractical sleep deprivation

I don't quite understand how the thing that's supposed to be the easiest thing ever, doing nothing, is supposed to be so hard. Is it because of something I did in my waking life for too long? Cause I couldn't stop thinking about emulsions ... >.<. It sucks. I had exactly the same thing last week, on sunday night as well. And I have ECS presentations on monday which are quite complicated. It's not practical.

I feel blah now.

Here we go!

Tomorrow it's back to school, I don't really mind anymore. I haven't done much useful in the holidays (my journal contains a lot of empty pages), but tomorrow I'm gonna meet school head on! Tum tada dum tada dum tada dum tada dum dum dummmmmm. Doink!

Happy New Year!

*Taken outside my aunt n uncle's house*

Automatitering

Do you people love those electronic boards at the busstop as well? You know, the ones that tell when the next buses are coming? It looks a bit like this (except then more Dutch of course)

Well, let me tell you a fun little story. Once upon an indeterminate time, namely approximately an hour ago, me and my sis were walking to the busstop. They had one of them new electronic timetable-board machine unit device apparatusses. While we walked to the busstop, the board said "+10 min." Great, so we had to wait 10 min longer. A minute later it said +11. Another minute later it said +12. Well you might've guessed by now that it said +15 after 5 minutes. So we figured out that the bus must've been standing still somewhere. My sis and I decided that we'd walk to the trainstation, where another bus leaves, since the apparently standing still one was the last one that would leave because it was late. So we walked towards the station. The thought of not having to wait in the cold for 15 minutes because of the awesome new electronic boards raced through my mind, and that's about the time that I hear a faint cry behind me. I turn around and see my sis pointing towards the bus passing the busstop and driving on.

Yeah.
Great.
Electronic timetables.

Jobs jobs jobs

Remembral: http://www.hansaone.com/ushome.php

These guys contacted me today on italki and are offering me a job for 20 euros an hour as a native Dutch-teacher. TWENTY!! Omg! Their website looks pretty professional and so did the mail they sent me.

I have to work tonight and I'm gonna talk to my boss and tell him that I want to quit. Then after the yearswitch, I'm going to change my week-OV into a weekend-OV. That'll save me some 40 euros a month. That brings me down to a netto 80 euros a month. Pouring juice and all the work I do there is fun, it really is ... but the stressing in order to get there is getting on my nerves. This quarter I should be in college till 17:30, and I have to leave for work at 18:05, considering I have to walk home which takes about 20 minutes, and I also want to eat something, since I won't be able to do so before 23:30, it's not really feasible. So I have to leave from college earlier.

Last year it was much better, they weren't being so shitty with dumb rules about everything back then. Then again ... I didn't spend a whole lot of time on studying last year ...

I want to do good, for a change.

Oh, by the way, I got your letter Stéph! =] I really liked it, especially the Queen of England comic hahaha xD. Thank you. =]

OYEAH!

I found out I passed the Quantum Phenomena course today! :-D This means that until now I've passed 4 of the 5 tests that I've took! I haven't had the results from Engineering I yet, so I'm anxiously waiting to hear that I've passed them all (I so hope so ... I've attempted to pass it 5 times now o_O)

Oh man, I'm so happy!

A familiar smell

Strange ... something smells nostalgious in my room.

Is it my detergent?

Damn CBR

"Dear CBR,

If you're so damn critic that you flunk people over making one silly mistake, then PLEASE don't make the driving exam 200 euros.

Thank you."

A book!

I bought a book without pages!

... wait, let me rephrase that.

I bought a book with empty pages! I dedicate it to every day of my life, not as a diary, but rather as a reminder that everyone learns something every day.

Een dag niks geleerd is een dag niet geleefd toch?

What's over the shoulder?

Uh-oh, I ran into my mentor today, and when he left we had made an appointment for tomorrow =/. Not good. Now I gotta tell what I (especially haven't) been doing last two years again, I already told everything to the study-advisor a while ago :(.

Mèèèèèh!

Woah! I sound like a sheep!

Ever felt nostalgious? I guess high school wasn't so bad after all, we had fun in high school didn't we? And now we are more free. Aren't we?

Project Icarus

Haha, I just read the first post

"I'm not planning to burn my wings and drop into the sea"

well that failed :P

"When I grow up ...

... I want to be the mayor of town!"

Haha yeah, that's what I said when I was small. The thought of being an important penguinman under a big Abraham hat was fascinating to me. Little did I know about rules, about procedures. I didn't even know the word 'politics' back then, let alone what was involved with politics. Now I'm 20, and I still know near nothing regarding politics. What I do know is that it doesn't fit in my field of interests.

I don't wanna be a mayor. ... maybe I should also say that I don't wanna be under an Abraham hat.

I've started my third year of studying now, and haven't created a lot of useful results haha. Yeah, bad me. But! I'm doing my best now to finish my major, and get my bachelor degree. I really hope I can score some EC soon tho, cause I failed the last three finals I took, even the most basic one ... and that was really depressing, not to mention frustrating.

Anyways, I walked into Thijs reading the AT-guide a few days ago, he was checking out all the masters available for AT. There's some pretty neat-sounding masters in between. I should go read them, maybe it'll make me more enthousiastic about later. After all, it's about getting a nice job isn't it? Or make something nifty that'll help mankind do more stuff while keeping their asses in the couch. In any case, I don't want to get stuck in some weird lab doing tests on a microscale chip, blegh.

Boring #1

Ik verveel me. Ben nu bij m'n pa thuis in m'n eentje. We gingen de wasmachine een paar dagen geleden uitproberen, en na een poosje spoot al het water wat door een slang afgevoerd moest worden door de hele badkamer heen. Dus toen mocht ik weer wachten totdat Kees Antiwatervrees langskwam om de boel te repareren.

Verder is't wel relaxed hier. Lekker panfluitmuziek luisteren. EVE spelen, films downloaden, tv kijken. A.K.A NIKS doen. Nja daar komt natuurlijk niks van maar dat snappen de meeste mensen niet helemaal.

Have I seen this later?

Yeah, ik heb de kamer :). Kamer 107 welliswaar, niet 136 waar ik een solicitatiebrief (ofzo) naar toe had gestuurd, maar dat is niet zo erg. Ik zit nu op het inhamhoekje, naast het dakterras blijkbaar. 't Leuke is dat Stephan kamer 106 heeft, en ik kan nu waarschijnlijk zo z'n kamer inkijken als ik mijn hoofd uit het raam steek haha.

O dat herrinert me er weer aan dat Thijs mij vandaag een postzegel had gegeven, en dat ik mijn inschrijvingsformulier eindelijk op de bus kan doen.
Vandaag waren we met een select groepje vroeg op school, om van Delden een cadeau te geven. (Dit had die lieve Tessa allemaal geregeld eigenlijk, anyway) iedereen zei hoogvluchtig doei en reed allerdaags weg. Alsof we elkaar morgen weer zien. Das niet helemaal waar natuurlijk, want zonder feestjes was dit waarschijnlijk de laatste keer dat we ons zagen.

Dit verhaal gaat natuurlijk nergens over ... maarja ik heb dan ook nog niks nuttigs te posten op het moment :/. Niet veel nuttigers dan dat ik vrij moe ben (heeft iets te maken met de gemiddelde bedtijd van 2 uur), en dat ik me wel vermaak qua vriendschappen rond me heen :-). Ik hoop dat alles goed blijft gaan voor de verandering

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"You know I'm gonna do something exciting in a while"
"What then?"
"I'm gonna do the dishes"
"Haha"
"It's so strange, nothing to run to, nothing going on"
"Don't worry, I'm sure tomorrow something will go wrong again"

Launch

Welkom op allucorsym. Een nieuwe blog voor een nieuwe gedeelte in mijn leven. Binnenkort, nu over ongeveer twee maanden, ga ik op kamers. Op appartement hoop ik, maar daar hoor ik morgen waarschijnlijk meer over.

Vandaag was mooi. Een hoop papier scheppen schept een hoop papieren herinneringen omhoog. Hoe lager de stapel wordt, hoe verder terug in de tijd. Van het mondeling letterkunde tot de start van het profielwerkstuk, tot aan de PO van wiskunde A. Erg grappig hoe snel zo'n jaar voorbij gaat. Maak daar zes jaar van, en dan is het erg humoristisch hoe snel je een VWO diploma kunt halen. Haal daar vervolgens weer drie jaar van af, want veel herinner ik me niet van de eerste drie jaar.

Iets meer over deze blog:
Ik vroeg me een paar dagen geleden af hoe die gast ookalsweer heette die met vleugels ontsnapte, te dicht bij de zon kwam waardoor zijn vleugels verbrande, en vervolgens de zee in storte. Die heette Icarus, waarna ik mijn blog ook naar heb vernoemd. Ik vlieg zelf ook uit, maar ben niet van plan om de zee in te storten.

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Tomorrow a new day, and without delay I have to say
I'm looking out for you
Sweet tomorrow, because of you I grew
To today
Too far away to regret things too few