monday wonderful

the presentation teams are now lagging behind by 2, so i sincerely hope that the situation will only get worse tomorrow, such that, being the last group to present/lecture we will escape that...

i m not undermining the creativity of professor goh who came out the idea that students would lecture the students, and he just sits back relaxed and giving you the right direction when you are steering towards the wrong one. afterall he's the one calling the shot, and setting our final papers...

so i met up with my group this afternoon, all of them are my seniors, and met the legendary shuangjun; our seniors are the most powerful group of industrial engineers-to-be in the history of the department, and according to little white, shuangjun is the most powerful among the most powerful batch, i gotta say, he looks very wise and i feel hornored to be assigned in the same group...so the seniors spent about 15 minutes debating on how many latin squares there can be, given there's n by n levels, that's the only the introduction...they started to talk in martian language, i took a very deep breathe when shuangjun's inferring latin square to markov chain! in embarrassment, i had to disrupt their debate and told them i didnt understand what they were talking, and started all over again...i m a stupid junior, i know

it was a fun experience though, had a wonderful conversation with mardiana after the meeting, she's the year5, somehow her graduation's been delayed by one semester, but she is very very cool...in our conversation, we covered democracy, religion, ideology, communism and how these terms interact with each other, for a moment, i thot i m a politcal science student, but it was just free roaming of the ideas and that's the university life i meant, we dont just talk about markov chains, EOQs, aggregate planning, exponential smoothing, winter's methods because we are ISE, we have independent thoughts, different but reconcilable and we question our lives, for what? i dont know, but it's better than just having knowlegde on markov chains, EOQs, aggregate planning, exponential smoothing, winter's methods...