So in case you’ve never heard, CMU has an annual Carnival celebration. The highlight of Carnival is student-built booths, which serve as the main attraction and also compete for prizes. Whee. Spent some of today helping (kinda) KGB with their booth and taking photos of Midway for yearbook. Booth loves you. You should come/go help.

Also met with Steve today, who’s going to be my advisor for this summer. The project seems amazingly neat. We’re going to go through and rewrite a parser in Java to go through algebra word problems and turn them into simple solvable equations. In the process, we not only hope to simplify the job of the teacher using the LearnLab software, but also to gain insight into how students learn to read and interpret word problems. Sounds like a great opportunity… so glad I got it :D

I didn’t get enough sleep last night, so apologies to anyone I may have been “wheeeeeee meh” to (especially Keith). Tried to make up for it this afternoon, and will go to bed relatively early tonight.

Oh yeah, and I finally went through one of the huge bottles of shampoo from Costco. Only one left! Will it last me another 4 weeks?!? Wheee.
I AM out of conditioner though, so I will need to buy another small bottle for the remaining month of school.

Life is amazingly good right now, and maybe soon it’ll be better… or at least I can dream it will</cryptic>