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Finals Week and Philly BrickFest

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It's finals week at my grad school, but since I didn't take any classes this semester, I have no exams to study for (except my prelims, which are at the end of the summer :P). I am, however, holding office hours for my students before they take their exams, so I'm not without stuff to do.

 

I also went to Philly BrickFest two weekends ago, but I was only there for a couple hours since I had to leave for choir rehearsal. I did snap some pics, which will hopefully end up on my Brickshelf at some point. Maybe.

 

In other news, I'm still obsessed with quantum mechanics and have been playing around with various mathematical things associated with it, like deriving the ladder operators and matrix elements for the quantum harmonic oscillator, deriving formulas for coherent states, and trying to find out what a true Hufflepuff is, anyway deriving coordinate transformations to the center of mass frame of two particles. Fun fun. ^_^

 

(This is the part where you all look at me like I'm mad, and I reply with an expression like this: 8D)

 

So, not too much going on with me right now, but I can't complain.

 

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Akano

This sounds like a good life to live.

Like I said, I can't complain. :)

 

"trying to find out what a true Hufflepuff is, anyway"

 

I actually researched this.

Did you find anything?

 

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Kaleidoscope Tekulo

I found it rather insightful.

 

Also that the four houses also represent the four elements in Avatar and that totally makes SO much sense. Harry Potter is totally Korra while Cho Chang is a less involved Mako.

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Kayru

Also that the four houses also represent the four elements in Avatar and that totally makes SO much sense. Harry Potter is totally Korra while Cho Chang is a less involved Mako.

Well they don't necessarily, but they do make a nice parallel.

The best idea I've seen about the houses is that all people are Hufflepuffs, Slytherins, and Ravenclaws, and Gryffindors are simply for those who choose it. i.e. Hermione was a Ravenclaw, Ron was a Hufflepuff, and Harry was a Slytherin, but they all went to Gryffindor because it was what they wanted.

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Kaleidoscope Tekulo

I looked it up on the wiki. That's where I read the element thing.

 

And yes, that's true as well. Harry, due to his cunning, fit the description of a Slytherin. However, due to the values he held (probably courage and chivalry), he was sorted into Gryffindor.

 

Peter Pettigrew, although a coward, was also sorted into that house. So, really, one house can hold a diversity of personalities. That's the impression I got.

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