Delusion-Elle

O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!

I am done with Math 200! For this term, at least! D: Who knows if I did well enough on the final to pass. T____T Honestly, that was the worst final exam I've ever written. The questions that I was able to do were all of the ones that were only worth, say, 10 marks. And even then, they were multi-part questions and I undoubtedly fecked up some of the parts. It's a very unnerving feeling when you've got an 11-page exam in front of you and you leave about 3 of those pages blank (for a total of 27 marks lost right there) because you have no idea what to do, and then have a completely filled page where you were not able to find an answer even after wasting a good 30 minutes on that half a question that you KNOW you should be able to do, but just cannot. That being said, a lot of people (read: 3 other people who I know are smart) found the exam hard, and at least it seems like the questions I did answer were done correctly. It is definitely nice knowing people writing the same exam to bus home with. The bus ride went by extremely quickly.
Anyway, enough grousing about Math 200. I've got a few days off to prepare for my music history exam which will have some multiple choice questions and be essaytastic -- a nice change of pace from madly scrambling to  fail epically at doing math problems, methinks.

And here's another bit of randomness that I found on Cracked about the dark origins of those much beloved fairytales. I remember reading the Grimm brothers' version of Cinderella way back when I was young, and it absolutely freaked me out. And my mom made it a point to never borrow a Grimm version of a fairytale from the library ever again.

I just had this weird thought. Everything is just time. All we're ever doing is waiting for it to pass.
Ah, and now it's gone.

And to bring up Math 200 one last time: if someone can solve the following question, please do and tell me how to do it!
Question: Find the point P(x, y, z) that is the shortest distance from the origin given the constraint x³y²z=3√6
This question will bother me for a very long time, I think. I tried using LaGrange multipliers and the basic distance formula (√(x² + y² + z²)), but then I realized that the minimum would be the same (for the distance formula) if I squared it and used the slightly friendlier x² + y² + z². And then I used up the entire page trying to manipulate a crapload of stupid equations that gave me... diddly squat. Or maybe it did give me something, if you think that x¹² could possibly be part of a valid second-year Math problem's solution.


*scurries off to read up on long dead composers from the Middle Ages*

EDIT: Apparently pasting that bit from my prof's e-mail about University Boulevard being closed on Saturday got me some hits on Google. Jesus Christ. Is it REALLY necessary to Google that whole sentence, people?!
Also, I learned today that University Boulevard is that road leading from the old bus loop into the village that the 99 B-Line (as well as the 17 and maybe more I believe?) takes.
And for good measure:
"Due to street paving and arborist work, University Boulevard will be closed to all traffic on Sat, Dec 11 from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm.   Buses will be re-routed.   Other access routes to campus are not affected."
SEE THIS SENTENCE? LOOK ABOVE IT IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHICH ROAD UNIVERSITY BOULEVARD IS.
And because I am kind and benevolent, I am going to advise going along 16th and down Wesbrook Mall at the ginormously useless roundabout. Unless the Wesbrook Mall/University Boulevard intersection will also be affected. Then oh well. Sucks to be you. I only know as much as the next schmuck.