I seem to be quickly settling in to this whole Research Student thing; I've got my own desk, and my own computer and everything. Since this is an engineering environment, my professor asked me to install Linux on my PC. A simple enough task given a few simple prerequisites; one of which is an installation CD. Everyone that I asked for a CD from responded with, "Which Linux are you looking for?". Apparently there are now 7 million distributions, and our lab used about 3.8 million of those. I still haven't installed any but that's due to other issues.
I instead spent most of the afternoon trying to review some of the umpteen thousand things that I've forgotten since I left school. Today was linear algebra, a subject I did pretty well in back in the day, but between eigenfunctions and linear mappings, characteristic equations and rank-nullity theory, I was a little overwhelmed. Let's see what fun tomorrow brings. :)
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
What a week?!
It's been a pretty busy week this week for me, and I don't expect them to be too much easier from here on in.. So far I've: moved from Fukuoka to Tokyo, discovered that all "Tokyo" airports are actually nowhere near Tokyo and require at least an hour train ride, got lost about a half dozen times, dealt with super-shady real estate agents trying to pawn apartments that nobody wants off onto me, lost my bank card, started school, and discovered that my favourite beef-on-rice fast food chain has changed their menu and removed my favourite dish. In short, it's been busy. But it's been fun. Mostly. Well different at least. Here's to the next phase of life in Japan.
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