By: Andrew P
It’s kinda crazy how it feels like just yesterday the legendary Dr. Bauer was still showing us pictures of penguins and leopard seals. Now I’m sitting here writing my blog post on a day intentionally chosen in the last week of SSP so I wouldn’t have to worry about it for a while. Well, I guess I have to worry about it now. I can already tell this blog post is going to have zero structure, just a conglomeration of random thoughts, memories, and uhm
Well, this last week is definitely not it, so much to do and just a few days left. Good thing my team, excluding myself, is literally the best team in ONL and perhaps the entirety of astrophysics (I’m not even saying that to be nice I’m being deadass, I don’t care what the other teams say, y’all are wrong). I have never in my life been carried so hard. I’m pretty sure Sanjana has done more OD code than any other astro participant, she whipped out some big-brain vpython visualization of our asteroid and Monte Carlo histograms yesterday and I’m over here content with finishing the required OD outputs. Grant (feel bad for the man) did basically all the data reduction because AIJ refuses to work on my potato computer.
Speaking of my potato computer:
Exhibit A
Exhibit B
Exhibit C
I rest my case. I actually didn’t know how bad it was until Grant just died laughing when I showed him the first picture the first week of SSP. Also when I ran my SWRI code overnight and woke up to 17% completion?!?!?! At this rate it’s still gonna be chugging along at my funeral, istg. Why can’t my test particles just throw themselves into the sun already. SSP head honcho if you’re reading this, I seem to recall that SSP was sending computers to participants? Hit me up.
During the first SWRI lecture block, I got absolutely thrashed by Jeremy at bullet (don’t mind the scoreboard). But since this is my blog post, I get to show a game I won 🙂
“I Miss the Rage” – Jeremy Y
The funniest thing was when Kim forgot to put Jeremy on the superlatives form on the same day as his birthday. I guess Kim thinks he’s “Most Forgettable.”
I’d like to take a quick moment to give a shoutout to my chair. It’s really comfy, 10/10, highly-recommended. Makes sitting everyday for hours quite enjoyable, not that I didn’t do that before SSP anyways. Sadly the pleather is starting to crack, please send your prayers.
Here’s a pretty picture from the guest lecture today.
Other than that I have no clue what’s happening because I’m writing this post right now so I can play Rocket League tonight and get carried by Grant (I have yet to make contact with the ball). Also Grant was too shy to submit his act for the talent show, but I’d like to share what he had in mind so everyone would at least know he’s exceptionally talented at what he does.
My biggest regret in life was not signing him up.
I’ll leave you with some of my burning questions:
- What’s behind Dr. H’s new bookshelf?
- Does Dr. Bauer just get paid for a week’s worth of work?
- Can I still be rescinded from SSP at this stage?
- Does anyone enjoy the Purdue surveys? Who identifies as a “researcher”?
- Am I a bad person for thinking it would’ve been funnier if Kim actually got fired?
- Who is the best Andrew? Is it the asian one?
- Apart from Sanjana, does there exist a sane person who actually enjoys pure math?
- Would it be bad etiquette in 20 years when I’m inevitably broke to send emails to every SSP alum asking for their financial support? Would you respond to my cries for help?
Update: It’s been 8 more hours and my SWRI is at 60%. sigh
About Me
Hi! I’m Andrew P, a rising senior at Beckman High School from Tustin, California. I enjoy playing the electric guitar and taking advantage of my older sister’s Prime Video account.