Monday, January 09, 2006
Scientists earlier today were able to conclude that my testicles are roughly the same density, general weight, and consistency of a naturally occurring sample of uranium-235. How you ask? Because the paper we (we being my former research group) submitted to QSHINE, better known as the conference for Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks, has been resent out, and accepted subject to a minor revision, to be republished in the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
Let's check the scoreboard, shall we?
That would be two international conferences, a refereed journal, and now a transaction of the IEEE.
It's probably a good thing that I don't gloat like this in the real world. No one would probably talk to me. However, just between you and me, bloggy, I kick ass. Part of me wants to send a postcard to CMU with a little addendum letting them know they can add a fourth publication to the application.
Ironically, I also finally saw my complete GRE scores today. Wow do I suck at standardized testing. It's not that I did horrific or anything, but I definitely look like an e-tard when it comes to things most engineers should probably be good at. Typically engineers score in the very top of the quantitative section (when compared against other graduate degree seeking students in other fields). Me? Nope, I fucking suck at GRE quantitative reasoning. It isn't that I suck at math either. Hell, I've taken up through Real Analysis (advanced calc essentially), linear algebra, and number theory. I just can't tell you which goddamn column is greater. I also apparently can't read graphs. Oh, while we're at it, I DON'T FUCKING REMEMBER HIGH SCHOOL GEOMETRY!
Interestingly enough I blew the verbal section out of the water. I can only imagine what an admissions committee must think (not that any half-way decent admissions committee uses the GRE, but I digress). Sucked at quantitative reasoning, but sure can put all those purty little letters together to make neat things? Who knows.
I'm also striving to be at work on time. Anyone who knows me realizes that I am absolutely horrible at schedule regularity. I haven't shown up to my anything regularly, on time, since 2001 probably. My life is simply far happier when I'm shirking the responsibility of temporal accuracy. Why rush when I can just get there later? This attitude has surely cost me over the years, but my stress level is virtually non-existant too. I figure as long as I continue performing at this level (see paragraph 1) I can get away with some of this. That's the real goal. I have to be as much of a bad-ass as Dr. Gregory House, MD. That way I can draw an awesome paycheck, tell people to fornicate themselves with a pointy stick, and still be 100% awesome.
Time to crash so I can wake up in the morning. Morning workouts are killer...but so awesome too.
I am so smart... I am so smart... S-M-R-T...
Let's check the scoreboard, shall we?
That would be two international conferences, a refereed journal, and now a transaction of the IEEE.
It's probably a good thing that I don't gloat like this in the real world. No one would probably talk to me. However, just between you and me, bloggy, I kick ass. Part of me wants to send a postcard to CMU with a little addendum letting them know they can add a fourth publication to the application.
Ironically, I also finally saw my complete GRE scores today. Wow do I suck at standardized testing. It's not that I did horrific or anything, but I definitely look like an e-tard when it comes to things most engineers should probably be good at. Typically engineers score in the very top of the quantitative section (when compared against other graduate degree seeking students in other fields). Me? Nope, I fucking suck at GRE quantitative reasoning. It isn't that I suck at math either. Hell, I've taken up through Real Analysis (advanced calc essentially), linear algebra, and number theory. I just can't tell you which goddamn column is greater. I also apparently can't read graphs. Oh, while we're at it, I DON'T FUCKING REMEMBER HIGH SCHOOL GEOMETRY!
Interestingly enough I blew the verbal section out of the water. I can only imagine what an admissions committee must think (not that any half-way decent admissions committee uses the GRE, but I digress). Sucked at quantitative reasoning, but sure can put all those purty little letters together to make neat things? Who knows.
I'm also striving to be at work on time. Anyone who knows me realizes that I am absolutely horrible at schedule regularity. I haven't shown up to my anything regularly, on time, since 2001 probably. My life is simply far happier when I'm shirking the responsibility of temporal accuracy. Why rush when I can just get there later? This attitude has surely cost me over the years, but my stress level is virtually non-existant too. I figure as long as I continue performing at this level (see paragraph 1) I can get away with some of this. That's the real goal. I have to be as much of a bad-ass as Dr. Gregory House, MD. That way I can draw an awesome paycheck, tell people to fornicate themselves with a pointy stick, and still be 100% awesome.
Time to crash so I can wake up in the morning. Morning workouts are killer...but so awesome too.
I am so smart... I am so smart... S-M-R-T...
# posted by Chris/Stewy @ Monday, January 09, 2006 
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I think the GRE is fucked up, personally. Everyone I know who has taken it receives a score that seems inversely proportional to their real strengths. In any case, standardized tests DO suck, and who needs em when you're kicking ass anyway? Mazel tov. :)
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