I can’t believe it’s already mid October. It’s been more than a month since I last wrote! And it’s less than 2 weeks to my exam! Oh em gee. Excuse me while I panic for a moment.
This is the first Friday in a while that I’ve made it home before 9pm. When did my life become so semi-exciting? Am I getting more socially adept? Less judgemental? Am I just getting to know more bored, friendless people to hang out with?
I finally managed to get my Katana-Ya ramen today, after weeks of craving. Yay! It’s never as good as what you dream of, but it was still good. And we had shaved ice + red bean + green tea ice cream. Can’t go wrong with red bean and green tea. Yum.
I’m interviewing Berkeley students next week. I’m so excited. I already know that I like some of the candidates so I’m looking forward to it. Today I got the intern to come up with some brainteasers I could use for the interviews, and we ended up wasting half the day trying to solve random puzzles instead of working. So much fun, although now I might have to work tomorrow to make up for it hurhur. There was one in particular about powder and rats that I was proud of because we came up with the answer collaboratively (let me know if you want to hear it, I’ll be happy to share!) Anyway it’s nice to have someone else around who likes doing this stuff just for fun. What a good job I did hiring this guy =)
Ok. Time to study. It’s miserable but I have to make up for the time I lost when I idiotically locked myself out yesterday (Germ is my hero! Yay Germ!)
12:24 am on October 17th, 2009
i want to know about the powder and rats! it sounds sadistic though
8:42 pm on October 24th, 2009
haha sadistic to the rats or to us for having to think about it?
the question is: you have 1,000 packets of powder, one of which is poisonous. you have 10 rats. how do you figure out which packet is poisonous in a single test? single test = no sequential testing, all the rats are tested at the same time.