Flowering

Keeping busy with non-academic stuff.. Gives me good excuses to break from thinking about my essay, an essay which I should really start writing something.

Paradigm paralysis
A paradigm is a model or a pattern. It's a shared set of assumptions that have to do with how we perceive the world. Paradigms are very helpful because they allow us to develop expectations about what will probably occur based on these assumptions. But when data falls outside our paradigm, we find it hard to see and accept. This is called the PARADIGM EFFECT. And when the paradigm effect is so strong that we are prevented from actually seeing what is under our very noses,we are said to be suffering from paradigm paralysis.

Which is what I said in my previous post about expectations imposed by society, people around me, myself. Do I need to look and ask if I am trapped by these expectations and "logical steps to take next"? Lots of questions with no answers sort of defines me now. The spontaneous meeting with the bunch of seniors today helped a lot..

Honours banquet. Socialising. Pretty fun actually. I still don't know how they assign the seatings. I was talking to this Singaporean guy who told me he is taking 2 yrs off school in June cos he has to go back for NS. I sat at table with Perrin! And he actually remembered me, even though I've only went to his OH once. He knows my name, my grade and that I went to his OH before.. Impressive. He made my day actually by sticking around and talking to me. Haha. Dinner conversation was on environment, hybrid cars, "fossil" fuels (Dr Penner was arguing that fuels are not made from organic matter but from CO2 and H2O and my ochem prof obviously didn't buy that), weather.. yeah that sort of stuff. That's what happens at a Revelle intellectual social gathering.

That bubble in the Muir parking lot houses a spectrometer. It was supposed to go into NSB but there was something wrong with the measurement or sth, so it can't go in. So it's going to be temporarily placed in the parking lot, taking up precious parking space, for 10 years.
Oh and of course, Perrin told me I should take 140C.