Our dorms are spacious, I just wouldn't have the time to do anything with LEGO []
Ah, you post late. Understandable [] I'm an east coast lad (so is AP for that matter).
Yes, I have a lot of dusty stuff... ironically my dustiest stuff is some of the sets I've bought secondhand (old M-tron, classic city, blacktron). The majority of stuff I got new as a kid was Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Bionicle, and Creator I think. I have some Ninjago, Technic, and Indiana Jones mixed in. However, with all the secondhand stuff I've purchased I have a LOT of M-tron, Ice Planet 2002, Blacktron, and city as well. A little bit of classic space too. But quite possibly the majority of my bricks are in disassembled stuff - what I was putting in bags []
-benboy
Ah, very nice, at least for the spacious dorms. Hopefully you can at least still have time to think of some LEGO ideas to build. I did a lot of digital building when I was in college.
Yep. I'm more of a night owl. Cool. I think the majority of LMB users from the US are from the east coast.
Ooh, wow, you also have some classic space as well, that's awesome. Also pretty cool that you have a mix of other themes as well. A majority of my LEGO sets are disassembled as well, and now pieces are just all around the table waiting to be used in MOCs.
Can you even get LDD still? I have it on this laptop, but not my newer one. And idk, I use so many nonstandard building techniques that building digitally just doesn't cut it for me.
I used to stay up late, but I've going to bed at a reasonable hour fairly consistently now. I'd like to get up at like dawn but lack the motivation
(convenient use of photo attachments) I need to disassemble most of the stuff on the second shelf in the image. Also enjoy the strange mix of stuff here, I think this is a good one with the sheer magnitude of stuff to take in All the cool old stuff is on another shelf, maybe I'll get a picture of that tomorrow or dig up some pictures of the actual sets that I have over there.
The alternating colors can be useful in maxing technic stuff look more aesthetic with everything the same color.
Right now I'm just working on understanding this terrible red blood cell modelling stuff, hopefully I'll be getting into more interesting things coming up, I kind of want to teach myself some numerical integration to see if I can show this one model exhibits chaos for different parameter functions. Then I need to also look at data and such if I can get a hold of some []
I'm pretty good at vocabulary, so I'm not particularly worried about that. I'll probably just do a few practice tests then call it good []
-benboy
That's a good quality to have.
Ah yes, very good for making some nice highlights and designs with colors, and it stands out very well, assuming the colors compliment each other.
I see. A lot to red blood cells that you never knew before? That'll be helpful to know. I've only programmed numerical integration once for a homework assignment, but I've forgotten it now. That'll sound helpful for what you'd like to do. Hopefully it goes well.
Nice. I think you'll do pretty well then. How long until you take the test?
Speaking of organization and technic here's another LEGO picture you may enjoy
I finally finished what I was typing up with the blood cell models, trying to find ordinary differential equations as opposed to partial or discrete is sometimes a bit challenging. For whatever reason, my advisor seems to prefer the ODE approach. Admittedly it is easier but I'd like to get the opportunity to learn some proper PDE theory. I missed out on taking the PDE course last semester so I really want to pick up that material somehow seeing as it's so relevant to applied math. I've done numerical integration a few times for a numerical analysis course but the professor was terrible and gave us code templates we all kind of just rigged to work. I think if I start from scratch on Matlab I could probably figure the stuff out - but perhaps I should just take the opportunity to learn python instead. I personally really like R but I'm not entirely sure if you're meant to be doing numerical integration on R...
Apparently the general GRE is online until June 30, so I'll register sometime within the next week or so I guess then take it in June sometime. Need to do my practice exams