Every once in awhile I get a chance to take a break from my busy schedule and have lunch with my girlfriend. Each one of these experiences is absolutely wonderful. Today was an exceptionally joyous occasion. I'm not really sure why. I was walking around The Hub, looking for my girlfriend, feeling a bit lonely, and a bit impatient with the giant crowds of freshmen who just stand around and don't let you walk past, when I saw her standing by a table, looking up expectantly at me. Something in her face or just the fact that she was there made me really happy! Lunch was filled with wonderful pre-packaged "italian" food and conversation. Romance ensued :)
This emotion was definitely pleasant. I would say the highlight of my day in fact! Of course the rest of my day wasn't that wonderful -_-
This emotion was of really high intensity but lasted for a very short moment. An acute joyous emotion you may say. It also left me in a better mood for a few hours afterwards (until the boredom of work overtook me).
You could attribute the cause of my emotion to my girlfriend. Perhaps in the way she was looking at me, or the way she was dressed and standing waiting for me. I would not consider it spontaneous.
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Thrilled
Today I had the absolute joy of doing something right! Yes, another blog post related to my academic pursuits...but that is what 75% of my life is at the moment :) Being in a relatively new undergraduate major (bioinformatics) I get all of the pleasantries that come with that...include never actually being able to take the classes that I need! One of my core classes (bcbio 401) was cancelled this semester because there were only two of us signed up for it. Luckily, the bioinformatics department thought it would be okay for us to just take the graduate leveled course (bcb 567). I actually have no problem with this since I love being challenged. The first homework is due this week and after racking my brain for hours on problem #1 out of 4 I figured it out! Actually my girlfriend contributed to the final solution a great deal, but it still felt great to be able to hammer out a solution.
This experience was totally pleasant, 8 out of 10 I would say (I reserve 9s and 10s for especially fabulous experiences). I love putting in a lot of work and have it be fruitful. Nothing I hate more then wasting my time.
Completing the problem left me pretty elated for the rest of the evening. I had a surge of increased confidence and I felt like I was ready to tackle the rest of the problems. So the duration was rather long although not the highest intensity.
I guess the source of my happiness was from completing the problem, so I would not consider it spontaneous.
This experience was totally pleasant, 8 out of 10 I would say (I reserve 9s and 10s for especially fabulous experiences). I love putting in a lot of work and have it be fruitful. Nothing I hate more then wasting my time.
Completing the problem left me pretty elated for the rest of the evening. I had a surge of increased confidence and I felt like I was ready to tackle the rest of the problems. So the duration was rather long although not the highest intensity.
I guess the source of my happiness was from completing the problem, so I would not consider it spontaneous.
Monday, August 29, 2011
Chagrin
When I take a class at a university that is considered a "higher leveled" course, I have certain expectations for that course. It does not need to be the most difficult course nor the most interesting...but ATLEAST a "higher level" course should be more challenging then a basic high school course! Consider this quote from the back of Geometry for College Students, the textbook for the aforementioned course (Math 435): "An important difference of this book from the majority of modern college geometry texts is that it avoids axiomatics. The students using this book have had very little experience with formal mathematics...This makes the book suitable to second or third year mathematics majors" Little experience with formal mathematics??? What do you call the 3 years of proof based mathematics that I have been studying!? Ridiculous. After class, I go up to the Professor to ask him a question about homework and he whisks me away telling me to go to his office hours (which are during another one of my class times).
This ended up being a rather unpleasant start to my morning. I would say most of the unpleasantness I would say is due to simple ennui; sitting in class going over the first 8 pages of a simple text for two weeks is painful. So mostly it was a very long feeling of boredom while I was in the class, and some slight anger every once in awhile when I realize I could be doing something better with my time. I feel like the source of my upsetness and anger was whoever structured this course. I wasn't particular upset or angry AT them since I do not know who they are. It was also more of something that built up inside of me instead of spontaneous.
This ended up being a rather unpleasant start to my morning. I would say most of the unpleasantness I would say is due to simple ennui; sitting in class going over the first 8 pages of a simple text for two weeks is painful. So mostly it was a very long feeling of boredom while I was in the class, and some slight anger every once in awhile when I realize I could be doing something better with my time. I feel like the source of my upsetness and anger was whoever structured this course. I wasn't particular upset or angry AT them since I do not know who they are. It was also more of something that built up inside of me instead of spontaneous.
Sunday, August 28, 2011
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