Graduates, it's snag-a-job season. Ryan Holliday of New York Observer, a dropout, has a word or two.

This morning I was in Google Adwords, trying to hit the ground running on my hatchling-stage blogging. I was playing around with keywords (or phrase) "my first job out of college" when I came across "snag a job". At first I laughed at the coarseness of the term and mainly because I was not familiar with it at all and it honestly sounded a bit ghetto. It turned out to be the most-searched phrase when it comes to job hunting though.

So for some reason I hit the keywords "how I snagged a job out of college" (I don't remember how it came to me but it just did) in google. And then this came out in the first page: "Dear Graduates: Lessons from a college dropout". Ryan Holliday, a college dropout did have some inspiring words to give out to the people of the moment, the graduates. Then it hit me. After all the pomp and circumstance, each one of us have had that moment where we're confronted with the question, "Now what?", overwhelmed (or distraught maybe?) at the prospects (or the lack thereof) of staying straight in the path to fulfilling dreams.

PHOTO: Graduates tossing cap in the air. (Paul Bradbury/Getty Images)

Personally, as well as it is a series of challenges, I believe that life is also determined by decisions after another. We fail at them most of the time, but of course we learn in the process.

And then of course he has this one line that appealed to me the most:

"...don’t wait for your dream job. These things aren’t gifted, they ensue as a result of our choices. We will them into existence."

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Ang Stress ng 151 (ever since, stat mech)

Nagising akong 8:30 today na may 1 missed call at 1 text from someone nagtatanong: "Anong oras ang finals natin sa 151? At anong coverage?"

And then boom! It hit me. Ngayong tinanong na ni classmate, saka ko na-realize from top of my head na shit! 7am nga pala ang exam. All this time while reviewing the past few days, I was looking forward to a 9am exam, why?

Dali-dali: 10 minutes na ligo, 5 minutes na bihis at pagkatagal-tagal na pag-aayos ng buhok (roughly).

Habang papuntang NIP, minamap-out ko na sa utak ko anong mga excuses na ibibigay ko sa prof at ang paghingi ng 30mins para matapos ang isang pang-2hour na exam. At sinisisi na rin ang sarili deep inside kung bat pa naidlip ng mga 6:30am, galing sa all-nighter na pagrereview. Naiimagine ko na rin ang worst possible shit: I've been working so hard for this tapos maze-zero lang ako? But I kept calm.

10 minutes past 9 pagdating ng research wing, halos wala nang tao sa NIP. So pumunta straight sa office ni Sir. And then ang pambungad kong tanong, "Sir magpa-finals ba ako in the first place?" Matagal ko na ding tanong yan.

Hindi kasi naglabas ever ng exam results si sir prior to this week. So by the time nag-start ang hell week, I just went straight into loser mode. Buong araw nasa dorm nagso-solve ng mga problems. Lalabas na lang ng mga 2 or 3pm para mag-breakfast at dinner na din. Babalik sa dorm ng 5 tapos review ulit, mga magdamagan na to. Other stuff, I ignored. I cancelled UPM application. Ni hindi ako nag-review for Bio finals. Leading up to last night nga na super confident na akong mape-perfect ko na ang exam. Well, except for the fact that I missed the exam already.

So, si Sir, pointed sa isang tambak ng mga papel. (I was expecting naman na bibigyan niya ako ng kahit 30minutes lang) "Tingnan mo exams mo!" And boom! Ang lago ng scores na hindi ko in-expect. One look and I knew then that I didn't really need to take the finals nga. So dapat nga masiyahan na nga ako and all diba? But no!

First of all, maganda ang outcome, flying colors and all. Pero marami lang akong nai-sacrifice para sa finals exam na to. I was looking forward to this. 2 weeks in the making, isinantabi ko ang napakaraming bagay. Not complaining at all, na-anticipate ko din naman ang mga ganitong sacrifices ever since pa, the puyat, the gutom, etc. Para lang kasing they went all for nothing. Haha! Well, except na-enjoy ko din naman yung pag-aaral. Tapos ang sad lang nung sobrang inignore ko talaga ang application ko sa UPM. I was looking forward pa naman ma-induct as early as October. Pero I had to defer and wait til next year pa for another chance. Haaay...

I guess the takeaway is at least makaka-move forward na ako sa 152, ang last Physics major ko (hopefully) sa isang naaapakahaba at naaaapaka-eventful na undergrad life ko.

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The Perfect Excuse

So I learned, I will be working on a new topic for undergraduate thesis. I think this is the 4th I am changing one. I guess I would have to postpone the Bohol trip for the mean time. I just don't deserve to have a vacation at the moment. After the unsuccessful trials on the first three topics? No. But I am more positive that regardless of what topic is assigned to me, I got it in the bag. No other degree-less human being on that institute is more knowledgeable of x-rays than me. I practically breathe x-rays every friggin' day. So cheers to 2013 graduation! And I would've scheduled my out of country vacation by then. Boom!

Video for the day!  

"Villages" by Alpine. This is pretty awesome in a freaky way.

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Majorana fermions

I was reading this article (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120515094136.htm) about a condensed matter physics breakthrough called topological insulators which mainly focused on the material Bismuth Selenide, which according to the article has yet the lowest electron-phonon coupling even when approaching room temperature. And then all the way to the end part, a potentially major discovery by a group of Chinese scientists is mentioned. A superconductor material is layered onto the surface of the topological insulator and theoretically you create a particle that is its own antiparticle. Now that's sick! I just needed it published here to remind myself that one day, as a much improved and matured scientist, I will probably have to deal with this topological insulators myself. And I needed to remember the name of the new particle, "Majorana fermions". I wonder who came up with the name? It's not very flattering.

(Image Lifted from http://www.mnn.com/sites/default/files/MajoranaFermion_main_0416.jpg )

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2D Plane Wave, y=Acos(kr-kvt)

Im starting to get the hang of this 3d plotting, I think Im gonna build a career out of it. lol. But it's really fun to finally have the power to put into visualization all these Physics equations we've been dealing since since. Coded in Python Mayavi.

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Mayavi is My Bitch: What I've been doing lately at the expense of my weekends.

What I've been doing lately at the expense of my weekends! By the way, this is the very first gif I've made and it was from a mesh program I did thru Python Mayavi. Codes are from manual. I just thought the animation is cool. It's why I'm posting this here for the lack of anything else interesting to post. I'm trying to mesh a stereographic profile of a pyramid-textured silicon. Hopefully, that's the next stuff I'll be posting here if the thesis regulations allow it. That's it for today. Back to my robot ways. 101010101010. Exterminate! Exterminate!

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IM NOT A BIG FAN OF CHURCH PERO UMIINIT NA TLG ANG DUGO KO SA MGA CARLOS CELDRAN FOLLOWERS NA 'TO!!!

IM NOT A BIG FAN OF CHURCH PERO UMIINIT NA TLG ANG DUGO KO SA MGA CARLOS CELDRAN FOLLOWERS NA 'TO!!!

MAY I QUOTE LANG from some Jasmin Miralles from Celdran’s fanpage:
"Naaalarma ang simbahan sa dami ng mga sangol na tinatapon at mga fetus sa kung saang sulok ng maynila pero sobra ang pakikialam nila sa paggamit ng birth control. HELLO! choice po yun ng tao at hindi required!kung gusto mo,go! pero kung ayaw mo at gusto mong magparami, go rin! ang gusto ng simbahan turuan ang mahihirap ...na yumaman. Pano? kung ang pinagkakaabalahan nila lalo't malamig ang panahon e bumuo ng bata!"

and i say FALLACY!!! HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF INCONSISTENCY AD HOMINEM? INAATAKE NIYO ANG PAG-OPPOSE NG CHURCH SA RH DAHIL NAALARMA SILA SA MARAMING ABORTION? HELLO!!! CONNECT? HINDI DAHIL AYAW NG CHURCH NA MAY NATATAGPUANG FETUS EVERYWHERE EH DAPAT BUYUIN NIYO NA SILANG ‘WAG MANGIALAM SA RH! YOU’RE FAILING TO MAKE A RELEVANT DISCRIMINATION, WHEN ABORTION AND BIRTH CONTROL ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS!!! ONE DOES NOT PRESUPPOSE THE OTHER FOR CRYING OUT LOUD! IF THEY BADLY NEED THIS BILL BE PASSED, I SUGGEST PROPONENTS STICK TO THEIR ARGUMENTS AND NOT PULL SOME STUNTS JUST LIKE WHAT THE CULPRIT HAVE DONE JUST A COUPLE OF HOURS AGO! THAT DOES HARDLY HELP THE BILL AT ALL, DOES IT? IF ANYTHING, IT ONLY PROVES THESE PEOPLE'S IGNORANCE.

GOD KNOWS HOW MANY MORE FALLACIES ARE STUFFED IN THE COMMENT ABOVE. BUT IM COOL NOW. HINDI NA ULIT MAINIT ANG ULO KO.

ETONG MGA PRO-RH KC!!!

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The Uncertainty Principle (draft)

...this sounds like the relationship of uncertainty of position to the uncertainty of momentum of a particle. Some theory by Heisenberg. Well, in fact it is!

     Today, while on my way to Dive Republic for a 1pm PE class in SCUBA diving, I kept thinking why people in UA&P are taking liberal arts. And then it went all the way back to high school rearing. I don't know but these thoughts somehow drove me to take the uncertainty principle into a whole new level. And I believe it was somewhat personal. I just could not put everything into words at this point. I'm still at a task of formalizing (which I mean putting into a clean notebook with all the embellishments and stuff) that I just found out it was a Mg strip that was used in an experiment. So I am putting up this draft just so that I will be engrossed in following up on something unfinished. I promise to get back to this in a day or two.

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