Not so fun size

So I am sitting here eating M&Ms out of a "fun size" package.  It is like 1/4 of the size of a regular package.  If it was so fun, don't you think there should be more M&Ms and not less?  I think if it was really that fun it would be bigger, not smaller than the regular size.  There is nothing more fun about less candy, if anything it is the "not fun size" because you eat them and then want more but that is all you had so you can't have any more.  

Tag

So my friend Catherine tagged me about 3 weeks ago.  It was to tell 7 random things about myself, so here it goes:  

1 - One of my favorite things in the entire world is walking through crunchy leaves-- I love how they sound.  I love how leaves smell in the fall.  I will even go out of my way to step on them if I have to.  I know this is a little strange, but it makes me feel like a kid to go stomping through leaves.  

2 - I hate people chewing.  Everyone in my family can attest to this because I have probably gotten mad at them at one time or another for chewing too loud.  I don't know why, but it is one of the most annoying sounds in the entire world to me.  

3 - I play the violin.  I took lessons for quite a while and got pretty good.  I have not played much since I started college though so I am not as good as I used to be.  Hopefully I can take some lessons again once we are through school and we don't live in apartments.  I don't like playing and making my neighbors listen to the same bar over and over until I am satisfied.  

4 - If I had to do it over again... I would probably go into Neuroscience for my Ph.D. rather than Bioengineering.  I love the brain, I just think it is fascinating.  Now I do research on the heart, which is still interesting, but not as much as the brain.  

5 - I like Ozzy Osborne.  I know this is probably surprising to most of you.  I didn't know I liked him until Aaron made me listen to it and now I really like Ozzy... Go figure. 

6 - When I was a baby, I liked sweet potato and squash baby food so much that I turned orange. 

7 - I do not like mopping.  For some reason, this is the one cleaning chore I really detest, most of the rest I don't mind or even kind of like.  Pushing around dirty water on the ground with some hair ball forming on the edge of the mop that when you pick up the mop stays on the floor irritates me.  Plus, in our lovely village apartments, they wax dirt into the floor so you can scrub at some things forever and they will never come up making you feel like no matter how much you mop, it is never clean.  

Yea! No more tests EVER!

So I am finally finished with my qualifier and I think I passed which is good!  That was my last real written test that I will ever have to take in school and I am way excited it is done and over with.  Now I can get back to research and having some fun.  

3 More Days Until the Big Day

So in an effort to avoid doing another derivation of something as exciting as how to reconstruct a CT image with a radon transform and the central slice theorem (which says that the 1-D Fourier transform of a projection is a slice of the 2-D Fourier transform of the object) I decided to post a picture of me... representative of how studying is going.  Yes I am that desperate for a break... Only a short one though because I have the fear of failure so I can't take too long of a break.  If you ever need to know how to derive anything imaging related, just ask me, I have probably done it or at least attempted it in the last few days.  (well, you better ask in the next week because as soon as my qualifier is over I plan on purging my brain of all the unpleasantness) Ugh.