For those of you who wonder what life "in the trenches" is like for a science nerd, here is a copy of a part of a recent im conversation between me and one of my friends (also a scientist). Somehow, we got onto the topic of women and dating, and this conversation ensued:
[Part1: Warming Up- A Little Background]
EquusNomVeritas: this one girl, I'd been talking to either via facebook or by aim for several months on a nearly daily basis
EquusNomVeritas: met once in person
SG3k: Facebook is the devil
EquusNomVeritas: lots of common interests, common values
EquusNomVeritas: etc.
EquusNomVeritas: one night, I ask her what she's doing, and she replies "making a care package for my bf; he's in florida"
SG3k: that's pretty good evidence against a long distance relationship, it's a much larger trust chasm
EquusNomVeritas: yeah
EquusNomVeritas: very much so
EquusNomVeritas: because at least when you see the other person, you have a prayer of reading the "not interested"
SG3k: well, you're a good guy ENV, and I'm a stunning example that waiting pays off, you'll find your perfect girl and forget the waiting in no time
EquusNomVeritas: true
EquusNomVeritas: (or at least, very likely)
[Part 2: Opening the Floodgates]
EquusNomVeritas: actually, the problem may be that the tolerances that I allow for "perfect" are too narrow. I may need to relax those a little...
EquusNomVeritas: to apply engineering principles to a non-engineering problem...
SG3k: not too much though, never sell yourself short
EquusNomVeritas: true as well
SG3k: and the advice I give to my friends who REALLY suck at relationships, always ask yourself if you're happy more often then you are angry or sad
[Part3: The First Line Should Be Suficient Warning...]
EquusNomVeritas: I just had a really nerdy thought...
SG3k: make a model? :-P
EquusNomVeritas: kind of
EquusNomVeritas: are you familiar with Langrangian-Eulerian meshes?
SG3k: I'm familiar with Langranges, Euler, and meshes, but not all together...
EquusNomVeritas: so the concept is that there are Langrangian meshes and Eulerian meshes
EquusNomVeritas: in the langrangian mesh, the mesh is an actual part of the object being modelled, it moves with the object
SG3k: okay...
EquusNomVeritas: in the Eulerian mesh, the mesh and object are not attahed, the object moves through the mesh
SG3k: okay...
EquusNomVeritas: so usually, the former is preferrable to the latter
EquusNomVeritas: but it the object gets too complicated, the mesh tears
EquusNomVeritas: Eulerians don't have this problem
EquusNomVeritas: so a solution is to create an arbitrary Langrangian-Eulerian mesh
SG3k: I'm afraid to think of where this is going :-P
EquusNomVeritas: yeah, I know... I said it was a nerdy thought
SG3k: lol
SG3k: you are such a nerd, but in the good way
EquusNomVeritas: yeah, I know...
.......
[Part4: Cooling Down]
EquusNomVeritas: i just wish I had a little more background in computer modelling so that I understood these models better and could therefore do a better job of reworking them
EquusNomVeritas: usually, they're used to model hydro-dynamics, by the way
EquusNomVeritas: basically, any fluid, including plasma
SG3k: wow, I don't want to explore that aspect of it with association to women....
EquusNomVeritas: yeah, I was thinking of figuring out how to apply it to personality
EquusNomVeritas: if it worked, I would become a very rich man...
Dude, that got a little "Weird Science" there.
ReplyDeleteWhat the heck is it, you kids seem to get very anxious about finding the perfect woman.
When the time is right, G-d will hook it up. That's just how it is.
Yeah, I know this. But this sort of thing is a kind of running joke between me and a some friends, based on a short movie that a few of them made about four years ago. Those who are in on it have probably noticed the allusion that I made in the title. Because I know that I still have several years of school left, I'm really in no rush, especially since I really don't even know where I'll be in a year...
ReplyDeletescientists huh? Well make a hypothesis of what would happen first LOL. Write it in an "if, than" statement. Joking LOL. I'm 17 and in college how do you think people make me feel? Most think I'm a brainiac. Don't forget this is post secondary so I'm still a senior this year, just taking college also with my twin sis.
ReplyDeleteAlso I'm going into dental hygiene so I have 10 or more Science classes to take. AAAAAAA I'm gonna need some help.
ReplyDeleteBiblebookworm, I actually can relate to your college experience. During my junior year in highschool, i ran out of math classes to take at the highschool, so I attended the local community college, where I took math and writing composition. I was 16 at the time, and for the first few months did not have a drivers license yet. For the record, 10 science classes really isn't such a bad schedule. I take more than that a a yearly basis, amounting to about 30 credits/year worth of science. And that assumes that I don't take any electives in the scieneces...
ReplyDeleteI agree w/SG3K that facebook is the devil...but at the same time..oh so lovely. Anyway, you are a nerd but who's to say anything's wrong w/being nerdy?
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