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I’ve converted… TI-89!

Robert Ying — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 01:26:39 +0000

Due to Multivariable Calculus, I’ve finally converted to a TI-89 Titanium… the TI-84+ just can’t cut it anymore. It’s served me well (since 7th grade!) but I feel it’s time to move on.

The TI-84+ and the TI-89 Titanium

Water Rockets

Robert Ying — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 00:21:49 +0000

So we just finished up our unit in Engineering Tech on water rocketry, and I figured I’d post some pictures of our rockets. They all beat the required 150 foot height by a decent amount—our highest was about 260 feet from the ground, as measured by the rather inaccurate triangulation based altimeters.

The Bee Bomb

The Bee Bomb—close up

Bumblebee One

Bumblebee One, again

International Business HR Video Project

Robert Ying — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 00:25:22 +0000

We’ve got a video project in Int’lBiz due tomorrow:

Take a look?

(P)SAT(2)

Robert Ying — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 17:20:28 +0000

My next two weekends will be filled with SATs of some sort… the SAT2 Chemistry next week, and the PSAT the week after. Hopefully after these are done I can relax… until school catches up with me.

Surprisingly, this weekend I’m not that busy. I watched Law & Order for the first time last night… and spent another half hour or so playing Team Fortress 2. I doubt this homework load will continue; it would not be totally unexpected to have the karmic opposite next week… just when I don’t want it.

FlexLab

Robert Ying — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:57:37 +0000

I’m playing with the FlexLab right now… it could use a decent amount of improvement. It appears to be some version of a reshelled VNC client-server paradigm. It has the same, annoying lag – maybe 100ms, minimum. Seems totally overrated – horrible interface and latency problems. It also doesn’t have any resolution to speak of: 800x600px – I don’t know what they’re doing.

Life.

Robert Ying — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:38:30 +0000

As things go, this week could have been better. I had my tests (of which there were too many), I wrote our essays, and I did my homework. Unfortunately, at least for some of the tests, I didn’t do all that great… Hopefully I can make it back up later.

As regards to West Valley: Yesterday I went to WVC and went to my first Math 004A class… it was pretty fun, but today I’m going to take a look at Physics 004A as well. Learning some new things would be a nice change… rather than just stressing over history and whatnot.

Also, I’ll be switching servers soon, so some stuff will change.

Tentative Class Schedule

Robert Ying — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 01:00:24 +0000

Tentative Schedule for next year:

AP Statistics
International Business
AP US History
AP Chemistry
AP Language and Composition
No Class
No Class

I wonder if I’m sharing classes with anyone…

West Valley College

Robert Ying — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:43:37 +0000

Today I was able to go to WVC to register for concurrent enrollment in the fall. My two possible courses are Math 4A and Physics 4A, both of which are useful classes. Luckily, I get to skip the assessment test because of AP scores (Calc BC is Math 3A, Compsci is CS 4A)

I also received my Lamy Safari in the mail – its a nice pen, albeit not as fountainy as I expected.

Spanish Video Project Final

Robert Ying — Mon, 31 May 2010 22:00:15 +0000

This is the version we’re submitting, pretty much (unless i messed something up?), complete with music. Members of group, please edit script to fit this version =)

Musica is intentionally left blank, to show that we didn’t create the music (=))

Any Comments?

Spanish Video Final Preliminary

Robert Ying — Mon, 31 May 2010 02:11:23 +0000

This is the preliminary edit of our Spanish final project, without music and such. If you’re in my group, please proofread/check the order of events – I may have things wrong. This thing took forever to edit, and longer to render… I hate making videos.

Comments?