Seattle.

I am heading to Seattle in a week for work! I am very excited. This is my big opportunity to get everything straightened out financially, and overall improve quality of life. This is exactly what I needed.

It's going to be a really nice breath of fresh air, not literally, Montana has pretty fresh air. But it will be a nice new change of scenery, new people, and new technology. It's a long-needed evolution in my timeline.

When I get there, I plan on kicking ass in the photography industry. I am very motivated to use what I know and what I've recently learned to get my own client-base and come up with some original, creative new ways of taking photos. ClarityNW is going to be SOOOO great to work with, not to mention it's like working with brothers. Haha.

Academics are on the side right now. Unfortunately I don't have the capacity of doing both at the same time. Maybe if there were 48 hour sleep cycles, but even then I doubt I'd have time. I'm not concerned, Math and Physics are my passions, and that's never going away.

Finals Week

WELL, it's pretty much finals week. I am so ecstatic! I am kinda looking forward to that finishing sprint just before the finish line.

I have had the most intensive year yet, and I did exactly what I envisioned at the beginning. It could not have gone better or more to plan.

What I've done is straight kick ass for one whole year in school. What I mean by that is this:

1. Wake up at 6:30-7:00
2. Eat Breakfast
3. Go to class
4. Go to the 4th floor of the library to study in peace
5. Eat lunch
6. Back to the library
7. Eat dinner
8. Go to sleep
9. Repeat

For an entire year. I am extremely proud that I am capable of doing that, especially because I have never done that before.

Needless to say, I'm gonna have the greatest summer ever. I am super excited for that. And as much as I don't want to think about going back to school after summer has ended, I am excited for that too. I'm going to have 3 awesome physics classes, and on top of that, I think I'm going to be tutoring in the Math Learning Center. I can sense it. :)

Anyway, that's it for my lunch rant. Except it's not lunch, it's dinner. I took a 4 hour nap after the quiz in my physics class was bombed. Nothing messes up my day like doing horribly on a quiz. And nothing makes my day better like a nice nap.

Except maybe a girl.

Miami

Finally getting that hint of Summer in Montana.

Been a few weeks since I've last written, but in that time I've been to Miami, FL and back for Ultra Music Festival. Shit was tits. I believe that expression fits in this situation ^_^

Ultra Music Festival is basically a festival with 150,000 people, the best DJ's from all around the world, 3 days long, total madness. Some of the best music I've ever heard, and definitely the loudest music I've ever heard in my life. To get an idea, if you were to walk up to the enormous walls of subwoofers, I guarantee you wouldn't be able to see straight. They rock you, and they rock you 30 meters away. It was just amazing. Best festival I've ever been to.

The weather down there was in its 80's pretty much every day. SUUPER humid, hair went crazy. Of course I was shirtless every single day, and that shit really messed with my skin, hahaha. After the week I spent down there my skin was essentially coming off me like a reptile. Need to take better care with sun screen next time, but fuck wearing a shirt.

I went to the beaches almost every day. The waves were shit, but I didn't care. Music everywhere we walked, electronic music that is. It's a totally different world down there. On the beach people jdgaf. Some drunk girl took off her top and then her bottoms while screaming and ran around in the ocean. Just fucking sick ;)

Alcohol was pretty much a daily consumption. We went so many places, partied everywhere, everything was nuts. Both Nolan and I had our pockets picked in a club, he lost his phone, I lost my wallet. I guess that's just Miami's way of collecting collateral. Can't have that much fun in one place without giving back.

There's wayyy too much to cover about Miami in one blog post over lunch. I will suffice this post by saying it was the most fun I've ever had!

So, now I'm back in Montana.. at least the weather is starting to shape up. Maybe we brought a little warm weather back with us. Hell yeah.

I do a lot of math.

So I finally figured out what my problem was in dealing with that physics crap. I have been working on the same damn concept for a week and a half straight, and it all finally clicked yesterday. So I'm feeling pretty damn invincible.

Been doing a lot of math, and I've been doing a lot of math. It's nice, because I totally get everything now. Everything I've learned in past classes, calculus as a whole, is merging conceptually. Very very nice.

Lunch Time

So, it's a little after lunch time. I woke up pretty late today.. around 1pm. That's because I was up late last night watching documentaries and figuring out why I am so shitty at multitasking. Apparently I am just like everybody else; everybody is shitty at multitasking, and if you think you can multitask, I can show you that's not the case.

I've been studying since I woke up today. The physics homework I have been working on for about four days now was just given up on. I didn't turn it in yesterday, when it was due, because I thought that if I had a little more time I could figure out what I was doing wrong and complete it. Well, I spent hours on it that night and I made no progress. To sum it up, I get to turn in a shitty assignment that's going to receive a 20% late fee point deduction.



Kinda in a blah mood. I'm in the middle of finishing up the PROCEEDING physics homework due on Monday.. and after that I need to study for my Differential Equations exam on Tuesday. So I feel like there's so much I need to do, and that even writing this post is an unjustified use of my time.

Spring Break is coming up though. Then after that, Ultra Music Festival in Miami. So... that's gonna be fun.

I've been thinking about it though. What am I going to do during the Spring break or Summer break? I get that it's tradition for people to take that summer break in between semesters, but what the hell am I going to do? I feel like I've still got so much to learn that I shouldn't be taking extended breaks like that. I wish someone else could relate to me so I can say this without sounding like I've gone insane.

Whatever. Writing this has taken too long.

Linear Algebra

I'm sitting in my Linear Algebra class. It's about 8:05 and he's still not anywhere to be found. It's been two classes in a row that he's canceled. So I'm getting a little concerned lol. He seems like he might be the type to have smoked, or maybe still does smoke, so it wouldn't surprise me if the guy is in the hospital receiving chemotherapy.

That's mean to say, I really like the guy. He's a bit old fashioned in just about everything he does, but he's still a good prof. Almost every day he's got a funny anecdote to beer or ending class early because the day ends with a "y". Definitely a different teaching style than I've ever seen.

In the amount of time it's taken me to write this, it's been 2 minutes, and it's about 8:07, and people are starting to leave. Maybe it's time for me to part with this class today.

Until lunch time.

Quantum Computing

I read a badass article today on Reddit. Basically, someone asked /r/askscience for clarification on quantum computing. In the comments the discussion turned to the capabilities of quantum computing and it's potential reach using the "qubit" or quantum bit.

The difference between a qubit and a classical bit is the states they are allowed to be in. A computer works by 1's and 0's, literally this is the on and off state of a bit. A qubit can be in three different states: on, off, and an undetermined state of both. This is a game changer.



Although quantum computers won't be the ultimate gaming machines, they will change the world of security and mathematics. They are so mathematically powerful, they have the ability to "brute-force" large encryption keys using special algorithms many times faster than classical computing.

Everything that runs through secure connections online, like buying things with your credit card, rely on the premise that other people will not be able to crack your encrypted tunnel. Almost every single form of security online would need to change once quantum computers are built and advanced. Quantum computers would be able to crack through 128-bit keys as quickly as your classical computer can use it. It's pretty amazing.

From what I understand, quantum computers are also able to use mathematical algorithms that were not before possible by classical computers. That means they'd be able to use formulas to break certain encryptions, where brute-force attacking was the only option before.



A lot of this is speculative for me. I don't really know what the implication of a qubit in quantum computing means, because in the nature of the large scale, we have no idea what it means to be in the "on" and "off" state at the same time. All I know is that big changes are coming because of the study of quantum physics.

Pic related. It's a preliminary quantum computer.