Last day for me, but I can't wait to see the videos

Well, today my all too short time at COSMOS has come to an end once again. I am sad to be missing out on the last week which is so exciting. But luckily these days it's so easy to keep track of what everyone is doing through the web.

Anyway, today we talked about rotating pictures. The time went so fast! I had hoped we could get to scaling too, but we didn't quite make it. Even though I won't be around, Liz or Wenjing will probably be able to give a lecture on sound. We've talked a lot about pictures. It'll be nice to see how all of these ideas can be applied to sound as well.

Tomorrow I head back up to Harvey Mudd to work with my students there for only one more week! I can't believe the summer is almost over. Time to start thinking about the fall already!

Week 2 almost over

Well, week 2 of COSMOS is almost over. I can't believe it. It's such a great group this year. I am impressed by how creative everyone is and how fast they are picking up computer programming. We have literally done 3-4 weeks worth of material in just 3-4 days! Yesterday we did a little project where everyone had to write a function to manipulate an image in some way and then they received a random image from another member in the class and had to apply their function to that image. It was pretty neat. There were lots of cool and unexpected images created.

As usual, commuting from Fullerton continues to be difficult. :( The Amtrak has been less reliable than it usually is. Yesterday was opening day at the Del Mar race track so we got to ride with several hundred (possibly over 1000, even) people who had been partying all afternoon. Luckily Alex and I paid for an upgrade to buisiness class (actually we used our free coupon) so we got to ride in relative calm. But waiting on the platform was annoying and the train was 45 minutes late... again!

OK, that's all for now. I'll try to do at least one more post before my time at COSMOS is done.

Alright, I am already late in my blog entries. Every year this seems to happen. Of course I will try to blog often, but I can already feel that I will not make as many entries as I would like.

So I am back for another year of COSMOS and I am very excited! Today we start learning about computer science and programming! Of course I think it's a lot of fun, and hopefully many people will agree with me. We'll see how things go...