Today I noticed a thing I have not noticed before. Up on the wall next to my CS professor’s office are all the awards my schools teams won this year at various CS and math contests. One of them was a modeling competition, and there was a certificate or something in the middle that listed a bunch of information about the event. It said that 798 team were in the competition, and only 12 won the top award. The schools that won this award were, Harvard, MIT, UC Davis, Univeristy of Colorado Bolder, Duke, some Polytechnic, two Chinese Schools, and Carroll College of Montana. 😛
Carroll doesn’t really fit in with the rest of the bunch. I wonder if Adam knows anything about it. Adam is my friend from back in high school, but he’s bad at responding to e-mail, and I’m sure he doesn’t read this blog… so I’ll probably not know for a while if he knows anything about the c competition. He should though, apparently there are some math/programming geniuses at his school.
I also got the second highest grade in the class on my last math tests. I woulda had the highest but the professor took of 4 of 5 points on one question where I did a more complicated task than the one he asked for. Whatever. I dunno exactly what my grade will be, since he hasn’t announced the curve, but hopefully it’ll be about %110 :P.
In cognitive neuroscience news, the record for most foreign objects in a surviving brain was broken recently by a local Oregonian meth head. Edit: I found an article… it made it up on digg. 🙂 Here. He apparently tried to kill himself with a nail gun while on meth. He shot himself 8 times, reloaded the nail gun, and got 4 more nails in before he stopped. He arrived at the hospital complaining of a headache and with no knowledge of the event. All the nails were removed, only one was near anything fatal, and apparently he’s going to make a full recovery. The previous record was held by a Japanese man who attempted suicide with a nail gun. He only got 9 nails in his brain. I wish I could link the article, but I’m not finding it quickly enough.
Oh well, that’s all the news for now. There’s no internet at 8’s, so that sucks. I’ll not be able to finish up the London stuff… or post from there if I wanna.