It is Sunday night here in Toronto, and I’m trying my hardest to avoid schoolwork. I’ve a thesis meeting tomorrow morning and a midterm (in Aeroelasticity) on Tuesday. Since theses are due (I believe) on April 11^th, this leaves me about a month to work on it. In that time I need to

1. Pick a trial function (a.k.a. the Armitage function)
2. Create a function to return the point stencil for any given ordered approximation
3. Modify my B-matrix initialization script to allow the order of the approximation to vary across rows
4. Plot trial results against the Armitage function
5. Analyze the stability of the approximation for time-varying solutions (i.e. check to see if my eigenvalues are all in the left-hand plane)
6. Perform a literature review of the state of research
7. Prepare a ~50 page thesis report

Oy.

Last night was Gradball 0T7+PEY and 0T8; I wasn’t originally planning to go, but it turns out a lot of my friends were going to be there so I decided I would show up as well. Not only was I the last name on the guest list, I had to ask Nini on Friday to call Stores and tell them to sell me a ticket when I came by, since sales were technically finished already.

I’m glad I went, it was a lot of fun. The food was good, the drinks were expensive, the DJ picked a predictable set (with not-so-great transitions), and there was one girl that left storming down the hallway balling her eyes out. All in all, a typical formal school event.

There was an address from our valedictorian, Tahir. I was surprised by this because I hadn’t heard that he had won; last I heard, people were sill voting. I felt kind of bad for Sara, as see seemed pretty honoured to have been nominated, and I think she would have served well as our valedictorian. Oh well.

Links

I have created a links page to keep track of the various blogs, comics, and news sites that I frequent. The initial population of this list is as follows:

Update

I have just realized that the ordered list I used above (regarding my thesis tasks) looks terrible; after our study party tonight I’ll touch it up to not look so gross.