Food that you’re meant to play with: hard candy in the shape of Legos. Yes, they work. And yes, they are delicious.
Finished the cake pops! Got roosters, chicks, and coal balls from Spirited Away.
We used lemon cake for the inside, vanilla candy melt in white and yellow for the chickens, and chocolate mint candy melt for the coal balls. Which was surprisingly tasty with the lemon cake.
Whoops I forgot to post this picture! It’s the card I made for my mom and my gift for her on Mother’s Day
Hung out with my bff from high school and we made these cake pops! We used lemon cake and vanilla candy melt with fun sprinkles and candies from Michael’s
Maybe someday I can work in his lab?
Since it’s been a while since I’ve posted anything about what’s going on in my life, I figured I’d talk about the major life choice I recently made. Well, okay maybe not major life choice, but the realizations I came to in order to make this choice certainly make it feel that way.
It’s taken a while, but I think I’ve finally figured out what it is that I really want to be studying at Columbia. It has essentially changed once a semester, depending on the classes that I am (or am not) taking. I first took intro to electrical engineering, and the next semester my first computer science class, and my interests changed accordingly. Last semester I happily declared as a computer engineering major, which I thought would perfectly join the two subjects that I was the most interested in.
But, that turned out to not be the case. I took seven classes this semester, three of which were to catch up on computer engineering requirements (two out of the seven are only one credit though, which is how I rationalized the choice). It’s sort of manageable, though I can’t wait until next semester to deal with a more reasonable amount of work. And it was thinking about next semester that made me realize I had declared the wrong major.
It’s a bad sign if thinking about taking all the required classes for my major makes me depressed. Especially if I feel like I’m missing out on so many other classes I want to take, which conveniently fit into a different major.
Which made me think about why I had chosen computer engineering in the first place.
I like to think that as long as I work really hard at something, I will understand it. End of story. Electrical engineering, at least in the beginning, was fun, challenging, and interesting. But as time passed, it became much more challenging and much less fun, and though I wanted to prove to myself that I was capable of learning it (and maybe I am, or at least I want to believe so), I had to decide that my desire to prove I could learn anything as long as I tried maybe wasn’t worth how unhappy I was going to be taking many of the required EE courses.
Unfortunately that means that I didn’t have to take 3 of my classes this semester, which is sort of a bummer but at least I’m learning some useful subjects, and I may be able to use one class from this semester to get out of a required class for next semester. And it means that I at least hope I’m not taking anything to prove something to myself, but because I actually want to learn the material.
Good news is next semester I am taking only classes that I am really looking forward to. (Artificial Intelligence, Computer Graphics, and maybe a dance class, to name a few). But I’ve got to finish up this semester with my seven (maybe six) finals and a chamber music performance before I really start to think about that…
Oh and before I forget, the guy teaching the computer graphics class? He’s the one who, along with his lab, figured out how to animate the hair in Tangled. Yeah, most Columbia people know this already and are sort of over it, but considering how that’s pretty much what I want to do when I graduate, I am super psyched.
#FYI these are cats that had just been sedated at the vet
HOW DO LEGS WORK!?!
im gonna piss my fucking pants omg
[ I CAN’T BREATH]
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I can’t stop laughing.
Water Drop Pillars by Markus Reugels
Exquisitely-timed water droplets combined with high-speed photography and colored lights result in psychedelic raindrops like you’ve never seen before.
Full gallery on Flickr. Also check out these crazy floating water droplets.
Previously: Tiny aquatic spacecraft travel through glasses of water
(via Colossal)
