Studying in bed...

Yesterday I was taking one of my online classes and I decided to watch the video of it on my bed since I was a little tired of being on my chair. It was like 10:00 pm and at first it was pretty comfortable, but after a few minutes I couldn't stop closing my eyes like I was falling sleep... after the video ended (it was like 25 minutes) I couldn't recall anything from it. It sucked, I thought that I was tired so I decided to go to sleep, but I couldn't, so I decided to watch an episode of a series I am watching and 4 episodes later I realized that I still wasn't sleepy, so I tried to watch my class again before writing my blog... and I fell sleep... with my laptop still on. I woke up at 3:00 am and still I can't recall anything from that class, studying while in bed sucks.

Honor Code

Yesterday I had my last exam for one of the courses I have in coursera, it was a closed book exam and like I said in another post I had to study to learn the terms used during the class. The teacher said that it might have multiple choice and fill the blank questions like it had in some quizzes.

Before starting each course you have to agree to the honor code, in which you make the compromise of not giving the answers to other students and not cheating.

It really isn't easy, I thought of opening my notebook a few times, specially when the question had answers in which you had to select the best one, but in the end I was able to finish without checking my notes, and it was harder that I thought, I never liked cheating in school, and I don't see me doing it right now, but the notion that if I do it no one will know is so different than getting caught by a teacher and can make me doubt myself.

Doing a system restore...

Here I am, it's past 1 am and I am trying to repair a laptop from my sisters friend, I thought that I would do it quickly since she told me that it only had a problem while booting, well, it has been already like 2 hours since I started and I haven't had any real progress.

I don't even know what happened to it, after the laptop finishes with the loading screen it will just stay with a black screen and the cursor and I can't do anything, I already tried doing a system restore and nothing, it tells me that it had errors. After reading several websites I read that the best I can do either restore it with a backup or reinstall it, and since it doesn't have a backup, I'll have to do a clean install.

So, yeah, pretty shitty night right now, but work is work.

Taking notes...

One of the things that I hated most when I was in school was taking notes, it was tedious, boring, and most of the times I could find better information in a book or anywhere else.

A few months ago I enrolled in Coursera.org to take some classes, and for the first time in my life I have been taking notes even though the classes are through videos and I can download the slides. This time I felt that I really needed since the classes are in English and I don't have the technical vocabulary for it, and the final exam of one of the courses will require filling some blank spaces with specific words that the teacher used, and since it will a closed book exam I need to remember the exact word :/

The classes that I am taking are Smart Growth for Private Businesses and Introduction to Finance, and they are pretty good.

I suck at titles...

So, here I am, trying to start my new post in the 365 project and I got stuck at the title, I suppose some things never change, though, I must admit that over this past months I have continued with many things that I was doing.

One of my biggest achievements over the last year is that I am working at least 5 days a week, and I don't want to stop doing it, so far I have dropped a little more than 17Kg, I am at the point where it isn't painful anymore, at least not as when I started, today I ran more than 2 Km without stopping, although, I usually run more than that, between 3 and 4 Km each day, but in 3 sessions.

June 2012

December 2012

Science is so fucking awesome

So, I have been reading a lot today about the Higgs boson or the Goddamn Particle (or God Particle) and trying to write about it (for another blog I have :P), so far, I still need to understand it a little more, though, it isn't supposed to be a technical post, more like an informative one.

Thanks to the efforts of scientist the explanation of the standard model of particle physics is near complete, this thing was explained back in the 60's with mathematical models and just today (4th of july 2012) was enough evidence to say that it might be right (a 99.999999% probability that the data is correct).

So, I wont get into details right now, I need to finish writing the other post and I'll share it on facebook.

Weird measures to make people vote

So, today was the election day for our next president, something I didn't know was going out in the city was that some franchises decided to offer things to people that voted, for example OXXO, a 7/11 like store offered free coffee to the people that voted and Las Alitas offered an order (or half, I don't remember) of free wings to every voter, I didn't go since we went to buy some food after voting (all the family went together), but we sure went for our free coffees, I was still pretty tired and sleepy after yesterday.

It really surprised me hearing that they were doing this, I was even more surprised with the people that was in the store, there was many people, mostly young and I even saw an old lady (like 70 or older), maybe this is wrong since people should go to vote because they want to, but lets be real here, most of the people in  Mexico don't even care, so I think this is a pretty damn good way of doing it.

And the coffee was actually good, not cafe good (or tenampa's good :P), but good non the less.