Mari on the first qualification
Kari and me trying to read one of the climbs
Crazy swiss people, here represented by Fabienne
Me in the girls final - spotlight, onsighting and a lot of people whaching! I was so incredible nervous!Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Mid-norwegian championship in climbing
On saturdag it was mid norwegian championship in climbing. My first proper rope climging competition! It was really fun, and I got a 4th place I am quite proud of :D (Results) Well, some of Bernards pictures:
Mari on the first qualification
Kari and me trying to read one of the climbs
Me in the girls final - spotlight, onsighting and a lot of people whaching! I was so incredible nervous!
Mari on the first qualificationKari and me trying to read one of the climbs
Me in the girls final - spotlight, onsighting and a lot of people whaching! I was so incredible nervous!
Monday, November 24, 2008
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Geekyity
I forgot my fracture mechanics projects, so now I am stuck the whole weekend working.. And to get in the right mood, its important to embrace you inner geek with some appropiate music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTby_e4-Rhg
And comics: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php
And comics: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php
The text of the song is so awsomly geeky I put it here :)
Finite Simple Group (of Order Two)
The Klein Four Group
The path of love is never smooth
But mine's continuous for you
You're the upper bound in the chains of my heart
You're my Axiom of Choice, you know it's true
But lately our relation's not so well-defined
And I just can't function without you
I'll prove my proposition and I'm sure you'll find
We're a finite simple group of order two
I'm losing my identityI'm getting tensor every day
And without loss of generality
I will assume that you feel the same way
Since every time I see you, you just quotient out
The faithful image that I map into
But when we're one-to-one you'll see what I'm about
'Cause we're a finite simple group of order two
Our equivalence was stable,
A principal love bundle sitting deep inside
But then you drove a wedge between our two-forms
Now everything is so complexified
When we first met, we simply connected
My heart was open but too dense
Our system was already directed
To have a finite limit, in some sense
I'm living in the kernel of a rank-one map
From my domain, its image looks so blue,
'Cause all I see are zeroes, it's a cruel trap
But we're a finite simple group of order two
I'm not the smoothest operator in my class,
But we're a mirror pair, me and you,
So let's apply forgetful functors to the past
And be a finite simple group, a finite simple group,
Let's be a finite simple group of order two
(Oughter: "Why not three?")
I've proved my proposition now, as you can see,
So let's both be associative and free
And by corollary, this shows you and I to be
Purely inseparable. Q. E. D
Monday, November 10, 2008
Boston in pictures
I am now well back in norway and my phone is still dead. I did however have a really great week, learned a lot, meet a lot of fun people, got to go to lecture both at Harvard and at MiT, and even got to climb a couple of times. Here is some pictures:
This is where MiT students voted :)
Stella!
Harvard is pretty even on a rainy autum day
Mr Harvard himself!
When I was at lecture at Harvard thursday we got these for free outside the lecture....
My supervicor Christian and his old phd student Andreas from Statoil who was visiting from Huston
The coop is the bookstore of MiT and Harvard, the one at Harvard square is HUGE!!
Joe and Ned, two british Cambrigde students doing exange at MiT took me iceskating and climbing
The Metro rock Boston climbing gym! Wish we had one like this in Trondheim! One of the people you dont really see is Halvard, a Harvard phd student and kiwi (!) and climber who went climbing with me.
They even had a climbing treadmill....
MiT is a complete mix of all kinds of styles, completly random and very relaxed. Once someone put a fire truck (full size) on the top of the dome.
And some other students hacked the light system of this building and used it to play tetris.
The Strata center MiT - some arcitect gone mad? It cool!
On Logan international airport at gate B13 there is a rocking chair!
And Sindre turned 21 today! I at those pics to while I'm at it :) Me, Matias, Gaute and Øyvind bought him new climbing shoes since he had the most trashed shoes ever! I think he was happier than he looks here :) But Matias got the wierdes gift, since he turned 22 the day after the election I had to get him a republican party card deck with among other McCain in superhero suit... :) Amazing that it even exist!
Sigrid made him cake! And so did Matias, and also Gaute... I'm full! Sindre, Øyvind, Gaute, Hedvig, Rolf and Matias at Sigrid & co's flat Apollo 21.
This is where MiT students voted :)Stella!
Harvard is pretty even on a rainy autum day
Mr Harvard himself! 
When I was at lecture at Harvard thursday we got these for free outside the lecture....
My supervicor Christian and his old phd student Andreas from Statoil who was visiting from Huston
The coop is the bookstore of MiT and Harvard, the one at Harvard square is HUGE!! New England coffe - Primary source of energy for MiT students :)
Joe and Ned, two british Cambrigde students doing exange at MiT took me iceskating and climbing
The Metro rock Boston climbing gym! Wish we had one like this in Trondheim! One of the people you dont really see is Halvard, a Harvard phd student and kiwi (!) and climber who went climbing with me.
They even had a climbing treadmill....
MiT is a complete mix of all kinds of styles, completly random and very relaxed. Once someone put a fire truck (full size) on the top of the dome.
And some other students hacked the light system of this building and used it to play tetris.
The Strata center MiT - some arcitect gone mad? It cool!
On Logan international airport at gate B13 there is a rocking chair!
And Sindre turned 21 today! I at those pics to while I'm at it :) Me, Matias, Gaute and Øyvind bought him new climbing shoes since he had the most trashed shoes ever! I think he was happier than he looks here :) But Matias got the wierdes gift, since he turned 22 the day after the election I had to get him a republican party card deck with among other McCain in superhero suit... :) Amazing that it even exist!
Sigrid made him cake! And so did Matias, and also Gaute... I'm full! Sindre, Øyvind, Gaute, Hedvig, Rolf and Matias at Sigrid & co's flat Apollo 21. Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Boston Part 2
Obama won!
And I was in the united states of america on election day! I did however not try to vote as Christer and Greg encouraged me to, neiter did I party or follow the election from a cool place, I didn't even climb as I planed to (because I got lost finding the subway where I was supposed to meet some other climbers). What I did do however on this historical day was to get completly hit by jetlag and fall asleep way early after studying....
Fun t-shirt at MiT shoop: HARVARD, because everyone doesnt get into MiT
And I was in the united states of america on election day! I did however not try to vote as Christer and Greg encouraged me to, neiter did I party or follow the election from a cool place, I didn't even climb as I planed to (because I got lost finding the subway where I was supposed to meet some other climbers). What I did do however on this historical day was to get completly hit by jetlag and fall asleep way early after studying....
Fun t-shirt at MiT shoop: HARVARD, because everyone doesnt get into MiT
Monday, November 3, 2008
Boston Part 1
Yesteday I arrived in Boston. That turned out as a funny experience!
My luggage got lost as usual and I took a cab to the adress Stella (who I am staying with, she is a civil engineering bachelor student who work with my supervicor at MiT) gave me. When I got there and was trying to find 428 Meomorial Drive, I could only find 410 and 450... The cab leaves and I try to call the number Stella gave me. Its about midnight and some really tired voice answers the phone. No Stella... wrong number.... So there I am, in the middle of the night, lost in a strange city, almost out of batteri on my cell and without luggage... I just couldn't help laughing of myself :)
After checking the number I called I luckely realized that I had dialed a 9 instead of 6, so tried the number I wrote down instead, this time it's luckily Stella answering! And I have just enough batteri to say where I am. Stella was also nice enough to borrow me what I didn't have due to my lost luggage.
Today I have gotten my luggage and the grand tour of MiT from Stella. Its a quite nice university i'll say, but not revolusonary different from NTNU or Auckland Uni for that matter. Well, it have better food than Auckland and more diverse food than NTNU. But just as many bikes as NTNU, which suprices me, I always thougt american just drive and eat crap, and then both in Portland, Corvallis and here it is plenty of nice organic food and everybody bike it looks like. The fun thing is that they have a LOT more MiT souvernirs than NTNU and AU had. I defintly have to buy a t shirt or something :)
And if anyone is wondering what I'm doing in Boston, I'm here to visit my supervicor and work with my spesialization project, It's unfortunatly not hollyday (It's actually buissniss according to my visa, buisniss seems to be if you are here not n hollyday and someone else is paying). Pictures from this trip will come when I get back to Norway, but I might write some more before that. How much I write will most likely just depend on how bored I am sitting here in the really beutiful engineering libary of MiT working :)
My luggage got lost as usual and I took a cab to the adress Stella (who I am staying with, she is a civil engineering bachelor student who work with my supervicor at MiT) gave me. When I got there and was trying to find 428 Meomorial Drive, I could only find 410 and 450... The cab leaves and I try to call the number Stella gave me. Its about midnight and some really tired voice answers the phone. No Stella... wrong number.... So there I am, in the middle of the night, lost in a strange city, almost out of batteri on my cell and without luggage... I just couldn't help laughing of myself :)
After checking the number I called I luckely realized that I had dialed a 9 instead of 6, so tried the number I wrote down instead, this time it's luckily Stella answering! And I have just enough batteri to say where I am. Stella was also nice enough to borrow me what I didn't have due to my lost luggage.
Today I have gotten my luggage and the grand tour of MiT from Stella. Its a quite nice university i'll say, but not revolusonary different from NTNU or Auckland Uni for that matter. Well, it have better food than Auckland and more diverse food than NTNU. But just as many bikes as NTNU, which suprices me, I always thougt american just drive and eat crap, and then both in Portland, Corvallis and here it is plenty of nice organic food and everybody bike it looks like. The fun thing is that they have a LOT more MiT souvernirs than NTNU and AU had. I defintly have to buy a t shirt or something :)
And if anyone is wondering what I'm doing in Boston, I'm here to visit my supervicor and work with my spesialization project, It's unfortunatly not hollyday (It's actually buissniss according to my visa, buisniss seems to be if you are here not n hollyday and someone else is paying). Pictures from this trip will come when I get back to Norway, but I might write some more before that. How much I write will most likely just depend on how bored I am sitting here in the really beutiful engineering libary of MiT working :)
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