Graduate School Update

This is one of those rare segments where I fill my loyal readers (ok, let's be honest: reader) in on me.

So far, I've heard from MIT and Chicago...and both were bad news. Which sucks. As someone who only applied to one school for undergrad, it's humbling to get rejected from something. Now, if I must be 0 for 2, these are the two I would want to have heard from. They are two of the top three math graduate schools. I wasn't sure I was qualified to begin with. So this is not too disappointing.

Anyway, to paraphrase Laura: "If your ego ever needs a shot in the nuts, apply to grad school."

Edited (2/25 8:40am) to add: Still waiting on Michigan, Minnesota, Texas, Maryland, Georgia Tech, and Alabama.

Hehe...

Seems the Dth Reads My blog...

Well, I've always said the dth is shit. I stand by that. In fact, I'm tempted to go back and change my prediction about tonight. But, rather than take the cheap way out, I'll just hope that it's true that every dog (or piece of shit newspaper) has its day, and stand by my pick: 82-69 Heels.

Dth Preview, published 2/22

My Preview, published 2/21

My Frustration with Apple:

THEY LIED TO ME. Right to my face. Well, over the phone.

I called Apple on Sunday to figure out why I couldn't see my ipod as a removable drive, because I was trying to get all my music back on my computer. When I told the guy what I was trying to do, he said, "I am very sorry, but there is no way to get music from your ipod back onto your computer. The connection only goes one way."

False. And luckily for me, I knew this was the case. I quickly told him, "Fine, I don't care about my music" (a lie). "I have a paper saved on my ipod that I need to get off" (also a lie, though your ipod can be used as a removable hard drive). He was then glad to help me try to access my ipod. Turns out I was missing the newest software update for the ipod.

What drives me crazy is that the moment I was able to get where my paper was (or would have been had it existed) saved, I was able to ditch this guy on the phone, and get my songs (in case you are wondering, you need to make sure you have your settings to view hidden and system files, and then go through a couple hidden folders to get to the music; it is not sorted at all, but it's there; alternatively, there are tons of free programs that you can download that will find your music as well).

Why can apple just lie like this? I know there are copy right issues, but if that is the case, there has to be a better way than a boldfaced lie. Tell me you cannot assist me with that. Tell me you don't know how, or even that you don't know of any way to do it. But don't tell me you can't. Because that is false.

In Honor of UNC @ State

This post comes in honor of the State game tomorrow.

First, IC did a neat breakdown of the last ten UNC/NCSU basketball games. I didn't read it the first 15 times I went to IC while it was on the homepage, but as I just wandered over there in need of a break from my computer program, I found myself reading, and thoroughly enjoying it. All but one took place while I've been at UNC. What an interesting ride it's been. Next, on to the game tomorrow. On paper, we should win this game, in much the same fashon that we won the first game in Chapel Hill. Even is State is able to force their tempo (which they were not able to do on 2/3/05), we have shown over the last few games that we can play an ugly half court win and still turn it into a blowout.

Fortunatly for State, this game isn't played on paper. First of all, especially for State, this is a rivalry game, so you can never go purely on what should happen. State has shown it can beat good teams, sweeping both Maryland and GT this season. (Then again, they've also managed home losses to UVa and FSU.) Still, if State can keep it ugly, this game won't come easy for the Heels.

All that said, in the end, I still see the Heels proving to be too much for the pack. At the end of a closely faught first half, Carolina goes on a run, going up 45-34 at the half. State makes it's run in the second, but never takes the lead, as UNC pulls away mid-second half to win, 82-69.

AIM ad-hack

Since I've spent a lot of the weekend fixing my busted computer, there are a few things I feel the need to post.

First of all, if you are reading this, you probably have a computer. That means that you have a computer that could break for no reason at any moment. So like I tell people every day at work when their hard drive crashes or they get a virus: if it is important to you, make sure you have it saved in more than one place." This made re-setting up my computer much easier.

Download the aim ad-hack. It edits aim so that it doesn't have those annoying commercials. Get it here.

Edited (2/21 3:22pm): Thanks to Brian for playing grammar police for me on this one.