tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49504474345370456022011-07-08T03:40:19.626-07:00Greetings. I am Trevin Murakami. Who am I? I'm an Engineering Major class of 2009, Male, Christian, Gamer, Eastie, Anime Watcher, Server Operator, Event Organizer, Ultimate Frisbee Player, Musician, Fun Friendly Dude, Observer, Martial Artist noob, Video Editor, the list goes on and on. And while I'm not doing homework, well, there's lots of options out there. But I mostly do homework...Trevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11077034054274579217noreply@blogger.comBlogger661100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950447434537045602.post-63762065858213054282009-05-20T16:02:00.000-07:002009-08-10T08:55:24.397-07:00

Turns out HMC is gonna retire me. OK!If I start another blog, I'll post a link.EDIT: starting another random one here.So, here's links to my favorite posts. Cya!Community ComparisonsSaying's Around MuddLies, More Lies, and StatisticsWelcome to the 50th PercentileThings I Wish Existed in Real LifeFood Glorious FoodIt's the end of the WorldThe Photo Blog Day (of epic proportions)Mudd Lore:

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Well, it's now the end of the year.Some closing up stuff that has gone down. We had awesome performances for the end of the Shakespeare class. Unfortunately I didn't get to take pictures of the performance, but I did get a decent number of behind-the-scenes stuff. Hopefully the college professional photographer got good shots. Also, we got recorded, so maybe I'll get a copy and be able to

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So, sorry I haven't been updating. It's been very, very busy.First of all, looking ahead. I have accepted a position at Intrinsity, a chip company in Austin, Texas. This means I am currently in serious crunch time as I try to find a place to live in and a car so I can get around. Intrinsity is actually sponsoring a Clinic at Mudd next year, so my job is to set up the stuff for the Clinic.

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OK, technically I haven't died yet (that's when I graduate) but just wanted to let people know I'm not completely gone from the face of the Earth.But, I don't really have time for a full post, so here's some links to some of my better ones in the archives.End of the WorldAn Epic Photo BlogA bit of Mudd NomenclatureReal post will appear sometime in future.

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Greetings denizens who may or may not really care about what I write.Apologies for the late(r) post.In case you haven't been reading the other blogs, Kyle Marsh noted that we have about 4 weeks left in our existence here at Mudd. Which is barely meager enough to elk out the rest of Clinic and all those other fun happy times. Also, Kyle decided to be awesome and make a senior page for the

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I got to visit USC on Friday as a potential Masters student. It was kinda cool, a lot different than when I visited as a potential applying undergrad.As readers of the backlog may know, I have no car. In case you're interested, I'd estimate about 1/3 of the students on campus have a car. So, I had to take the train. Luckily, we have a Metrolink station a few blocks away. And by a few blocks,

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So, now we know what that secret Rearden company was doing all this time, besides stealing our CS majors for exorbitant amounts of money.

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I've received word that I might be getting more traffic soon. Something about acceptance letters or something like that. Weird.Anyways, this is once again late because I am a lazy jerk who doesn't remember to write these things on Friday like I'm supposed to.Spring Break was... interesting. I managed to cram in 24 Hours of gaming. Well, I actually didn't game all that much since I was

Trevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11077034054274579217noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950447434537045602.post-34058037876195785352009-03-15T15:56:00.000-07:002009-03-15T15:58:23.282-07:00

Just got back from 24Hr Crack. It was AWESOME. So many games, including a few epic moments. Or, perhaps they seemed more epic due to sleep dep.I forgot to bring my camera for pictures. Again.And, since I'll be graduating, I have to wonder who will take over next year.I sleep now.

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Hello denizens of the future.This is a previously written and stored and posted on Saturday.Unfortunately, I am not actually here to post it myself. I am sleeping in preparation for 24 Hours of gaming.=]Afterwards, I will do more Clinic.=[But, hopefully Clinic will get back on schedule.=]I also has job interview.=]]But, no car.=[Someone told me ZipCar would help.=]But, ZipCar will cost around

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From Penny Arcade.Titled "Progress"Click on the picture to see the full version.

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Sorry I've been neglecting all one of my readers. OK, maybe the admissions department is watching as well.First some current events. I got to see Watchmen last Friday. I was fairly impressed. Then again, that might be the sleep dep talking and my extremely short list of qualifications to be a movie critic.It's actually been a really weird phenomenon concerning the Watchmen movie. It is very

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Call me slightly romantic, but I feel that leaving a mark tends to be a good thing. Assuming it's the good kind of mark and not the emotionally scarring mark.Back in High School, I did quite a bit. I was active in band, did well in academics, and messed around in very very fun circles. I of course am barely a memory now, mostly in the teachers' minds. I don't expect people to remember the kid

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Weird Al's White and NerdyThis of course is in no way designed to be the end-all, just a humorous romp through some very.... nerdy... things.First, the background.You see, to be geeky, you have to know geeky things. I'm not necessarily talking about quarks and quantum physics. I'm also talking about the sub-culture of internet memes and crazy things that are fun and get referenced quite a bit.

Trevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11077034054274579217noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950447434537045602.post-63134736820778840842009-02-07T10:00:00.000-08:002009-02-07T10:00:01.390-08:00

I kid you not.Just this last weekend, I was bashing my head against a certain bug. It's called an iteration loop error. In Verilog, parts of the chip don't have any delay in them. Since this is a rough simulation, that's usually OK and in the real world (or better simulations) we'll see delays and all is well. Iteration loops occur when there is a signal loop (i.e. a signal is dependent on

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Um, I'm back in school. Just FYI.As it turns out, it hasn't been altogether a bad week. Robotics is gonna be awesome and Shakespeare is gonna be awesome. Clinic has carried over from last semester (still on the critical path of you screw up the project fails).So, the real question is what to do about my 3 Hums. One hasn't met yet since the professor is at a conference for this week. However,

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 This is quick snapshot of the lovely little doohicky I have on this Blog called Google Analytics. It shows that every day this blog sees about 5-10 viewers. Most don't stay for long, and the majority (over 50%) come from a referring site. I surprisingly am also getting quite a bit of traffic now from search engines. This blog is in fact NOT the top result from searching my name, Trevin

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Still on break. HMC returns on Jan 19th. So that means one more week to fix all that Clinic stuff I still have to do. Gr....Anyways, on to the topic of the day: communities. While a loose term, I'm going to reference it in regards to the supportive (or lack thereof) nature of people doing similar things.Let's start with the DotA community. If you're unfamiliar, DotA stand for 'Defense of the

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In Dungeons and Dragons, abbreviated D&D, there are six primary attributes. Strength, a measurement of physical power, Dexterity, a measurement of nimble actions and fingers, Constitution, a measure of endurance to pain and body, Intelligence, a measurement of knowledge, Wisdom, a measurement of perception and application, and Charisma, a measurement of physical beauty and nimbleness of the

Trevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11077034054274579217noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950447434537045602.post-16661670670788612492008-12-27T12:15:00.000-08:002008-12-27T12:32:24.081-08:00

Hello all. It's the post-Christmas fallout.Well, I've been busy. Not with work, mostly with gatherings and special events and trying to grab a few hours of play time here and there. Mostly playing Blokus with my family, which is an AWESOME game by the way. Simple enough everyone can play, deep enough for some strategic skill (my specialty), but not so deep that I can always win (unlike chess)

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Man, I am failing at the prep blog early game.Anyways, today it's time to detail plans for Break. This is akin to New Years Resolutions where you make a list, feel good about it, try to follow it for about 1-2 days, then lapse back to your old habits. Unless you're still young and in that malleable age where your parents can smack you around and make you shape up.So, here goes. (in no

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Well, the worst is over. Or should I say yet to come.First, fun YouTube stuff.Now those look like really badass freeform maps. Too bad I still have to wait for the PC version.Anyways, back to reality.It's finals week. Ironically, I only have two finals left. MicroPs, 6502 Chip Research, and Clinic all ended last week. OK, so Clinic didn't really end, I still have a few items I need to get

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There is no useful post today.I'll see if I can put up something after my two giant deadlines for Monday are done with. Luckily, MicroPs has a light at the end of the tunnel. Clinic sorta does as well, except I'm not sure if it's the end or an incoming train.

Trevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11077034054274579217noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950447434537045602.post-83654265394758013122008-11-29T13:53:00.000-08:002008-11-29T14:11:37.955-08:00

It's the home stretch. Last few weeks of school. For some, this would be heartwarming. Last few things to clean up, time to go out and start Christmas shopping (Amazon.com, you are one of my saviors), and all that.Not true for me.Let's recap.In Clinic, Prof. David Harris commented last week we had about "6 weeks worth of work, and about 3 weeks to do it". This is also the same guy who

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and by you I mean me and by gru I mean Clinic and MicroPs.On a quick note, there's a few addendums to some prior posts.1) Scripps is a woman's college. K-12 girls do not attend a school across the street. And if they did, saying this was a good thing might be misinterpreted as me promoting pedophilia, which I happen to not support.2) On Nov 1, I made a few statements on diversity. To clarify, I

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There's a few sayings that are used around Mudd. They're pithy, get across an idea, and while perhaps exaggerated there's a bit of truth.So, let's look at a few:There are 3 things you can pursue at Mudd. Good sleep, good grades, and good social life. Pick 2. I think we stole this one from Caltech. Not sure. There's also an addendum that states, "if you're in a sport, that's the 4th choice,

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There's this mythical place where you get paid to do homework and your problems sets actually determine the lives of hundreds, thousands, or even millions of people. WHOA!Turns out I need to get into this world soon. I'm a graduating senior (or, at least I hope I've graduating), so that means grad school and jobs. It also means I get to feel really weird about myself.Allow me to put things in

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Today's episode will be covering things you think at first are good ideas, but in reality may not be.Let's start with a simple one. Pure democracy. Everyone has a single vote, majority wins. Yay power to the people and all that. The only problem is this relies on an informed governed/voter population. Unfortunately, the USA is really really bad at this. We rely too much on the echo chamber

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Here's some statistics I nagged the Admissions Department to give me. Thanks Raissa!This post is gonna have lots of numbers and explanations and thoughts. Remember, statistics are trying to condense information into simple numeric values. However, many people have learned the art of exploiting statistics, so you should always be wary of the accuracy and authenticity of this statistics. I

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Yeah yea, I know this is late. Not that most people care about my punctuality on this blog anyways.So, I'm still in the middle of Fall Break. Technically, Fall Break begins after your last class of last week, which for me was Thursday afternoon. It extends until your first class Wednesday.Luckily, we're not in High School where each teacher seems to think that any kind of break is a good time

Trevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11077034054274579217noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950447434537045602.post-71781179850476484632008-10-11T10:00:00.000-07:002008-10-11T10:00:00.418-07:00

It's been a busy week.Lots of Clinic, lots of MicroPs, a presentation and a paper, and research is still being an enigma.To top it all off, a cold has been going around the campus. And it looks like due to low sleep levels and off-timed allergy meds, I may have caught it. It hasn't moved into my chest yet, so I might have a chance yet. If it does, I might need antibiotics. =[So yeah, nothing

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Well, we just had our Site Visit to the Intel Campus up near Portland, Oregon.To get there, we had to catch a 6:15am flight, which meant we left HMC at around 4:45am.We made a wrong turn, and wasted some time, but got to the airport on time for loading.During the flight, we got to spend some quality time with Professor David Money Harris and go over stuff we were still a little hazy on and some

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I'm busy. Clinic + MicroPs + Research + 2 hums = lots of work.The fact that I still go to Crack in the AC and WarCrack regularly isn't exactly helping. Well, I guess I have an excuse for Crack in the AC since I run the thing.Quick update, though, I have my MicroPs lab done in record time. 6.5 Hours. Oh yeah. I even have the thing able to take two buttons being pressed at the same time. I'll

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This is actually pretty recent lore.Camilo was a student of Mudd during my Freshman year.Camilo was extremely active physically. For example, he had trained under pretty much every martial art out there, and had a love for Chinese Kung Fu. All of the styles of Kung Fu. He was also incredibly buff and would climb trees for fun. Here are a few little stories about him.Camilo one night was

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Now to share some cool things I've learned so far!Did you know that an argument can be valid, but not sound and vice versa? Take for example the following argument: "If it is raining, the street is wet. It is raining, therefore the street is wet." This is perfectly valid. It is logically consistent. However, it is not sound since if I look out my window, it is not raining. Soundness

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At least according to Prof. Jacobsen.In other news, my Clinic will be to make a shiny chip to help speed up cryptography algorithms. Return to the team Michael Braly, adding in an exchange student Julien, and other friend but not on this blog yet Lolly Simoni.Oh, and Crack starts up today.Yay for busy school week!

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The video is a little dated, but still so true.Let me be up front. I happen to classify myself as a Conservative. I tend towards conservative social policies and some economic ones as well. But, I hope to stay fairly balanced in this particular post. Apologies in advance.Let's think back a bit. Back to before I left school for the summer. Back when the primaries were still going strong, and

Trevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11077034054274579217noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950447434537045602.post-38184869921973309392008-08-16T10:00:00.000-07:002008-08-16T10:00:00.639-07:00

or below.Perhaps one of the most surprising and yet most obvious things about Mudd is that there's smart students here. The obvious factor is, well, quite obvious. It's bragged about, stories are written about it, and the statistics support it. The surprising part is what students do when they get here.They think it's gonna be like High School.You know. The place where you're the best of the

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While the witty Douglas Adams placed this little gem of wisdom on his Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, we have to ask ourselves why not?We live in a time where there’s plenty to panic about. There are global items, like global warming and theories of peak oil and that California is long overdue for a giant earthquake that will eventually split us off from the rest of North America. There’s

Trevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11077034054274579217noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950447434537045602.post-5401836016893398822008-07-20T18:52:00.000-07:002008-08-30T10:11:03.040-07:00

OK. I'm sorry. I claimed I would be giving updates regularly and epically failed yesterday. Will try to do better in the future.To the topic of the day, stuff that is not in real life that I wish did exist. This is not a definitive list, and again probably has very little to do directly with Mudd.Magic. In the most basic of definitions, this is pretty much anything that bends or breaks what

Trevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11077034054274579217noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950447434537045602.post-74069977759783712972008-07-05T12:29:00.000-07:002008-08-30T10:11:16.040-07:00

Now for something not Mudd related.I happen to be musical in ability. Granted, I couldn’t make a living out of it, but I can play instruments competently and sing not horribly. In High School, I played in the Band. I in fact played the flute. Yes, I am in fact a male flute player.Being very involved in Band in my recent past, I still have quite the affinity for it. Having a younger brother

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I’ll be trying to update about once every other week. At least until school starts. Or I run out of ideas. Whichever comes first. You can also use the RSS feed feature to check up for when I update.One of the biggest concerns for most people is what you’re going to eat when you go away. First, let’s get something straight. Your mom and dad are no longer around. So, you’re not going to get

Trevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11077034054274579217noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950447434537045602.post-59174004024731752822008-06-07T10:59:00.000-07:002008-06-07T11:00:40.377-07:00

Double feature today.Now that I’ve been in a real job for a while, I can make a few statements about a job and how well Harvey Mudd prepares you for it. OK, it’s not a real job, it’s an internship, but I’m getting paid to do it.First, a quick overview of my job. I’m an intern at CornerTurn. They’re a small company that broke off from a larger firm so that they could do engineering without all

Trevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11077034054274579217noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950447434537045602.post-84963662344655984742008-06-07T09:39:00.000-07:002008-06-07T09:59:29.414-07:00

No, this is not some philosophical insanity about where your home is or touchy feely piece about being far away from home.I happen to live in Hacienda Heights, California. For the non-locals, that’s about 30 minutes drive southwest of Harvey Mudd. San Gabriel Valley region. As such, my perspective on the whole living in the dorms and away from my home and family is pretty lightweight. In fact

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End of semester.I should have seen it coming. Granted, I did see it coming. I saw it and survived. Doesn't change the fact it was painful.This last semester was E102, E106, E158, E166, MUS080, MUS084. In order, that's Big Stems, Material, VLSI, High-Speed PCB, Music Theory I, and Jazz Improv, using the shortened nomenclature. I'm not going to say "Introduction to CMOS VLSI Design", more

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[insert Beach Boys song here]As we wrap up the academic year, it's time to look towards our summer plans. If we were in High School, this might entail things from working at the local burger joint to summer school or, if you're like me, Summer Activities like Band Camp.But, we're in College now.What's to do around Mudd? First, there's summer math. It's about six weeks long, and covers all of

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as we know it.So, the year is coming to a close. That means registering for next year's classes, projects, and of course finals. I've currently knocked off 6 out of my 16.5 units semester. Wheee! Big Stems and High-Speed PCB Design to be exact.So, I find it interesting that I'm probably a pessimist. It's not that I'm depressed or anything, it's just that for some reason I always think of

Trevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11077034054274579217noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950447434537045602.post-69647005392688889642008-04-23T18:35:00.000-07:002008-04-23T19:02:50.036-07:00

First, I guess I should start off with an apology. The last couple of posts have been kinda haphazard. I tried my hardest not to make them rants, and yet the main point was kinda to rant, so it all was in pieces. I'll try to get things a bit more coherent.Anyways. If you don't know what Anime is, it's a broad classification of romance, comedy, action, horror, philosophical, visionary,

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Again, a disclaimer. I don't claim to speak for Christians nor any other sect of religious affiliation. This is a personal opinion.So, I happen to classify myself as a Christian. The way I look at this is not that I attend a Christian church, or that I believe in the Bible, or any of that. I mean, the above statements are true, it's just I personally feel that doesn't make you a Christian.

Trevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11077034054274579217noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950447434537045602.post-3686446458491153002008-04-17T12:00:00.000-07:002008-04-17T13:11:12.699-07:00

Sorry this is late. You'll understand why in a moment.I had this insane idea to take pictures of my day, and randomly chose Wednesday since it's my most active and busy day. Little did I know it would be this insane.8:45am - Time to wake up. After basic grooming and stuff, it's time to head out for my 9am class. Emotion: tired. Going to sleep at 2am last night doesn't help.9:30am -

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Sorry this is a bit late. Been very busy.Also, there were a lot of prefrosh running around campus. Geez. Sorry I didn't get back in time to hang out and chill as much as I'd liked.Anyways, I'm going to share with you a little bit of Mudd lore. Now, this is fairly accurate, and recent enough that there are in fact people who know the person in question still at Mudd. In fact, the crazy guy

Trevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11077034054274579217noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950447434537045602.post-7519002137047969792008-04-09T18:18:00.000-07:002008-04-09T18:42:00.665-07:00

Contents known to combust and react in unpredictable manners.VLSI is about 1 week behind schedule. We just started the giant project for High-Speed PCB Design. Thank goodness I'm not in Clinic.Anyways, I guess I've always considered myself an introvert. However, under certain conditions, I do some crazy things.First, let's define introvert. I'm not talking about hermit. I can in fact give a

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GAH! TESTS! VLSI! SUMMER JOB! ONOSES!By the way, if you have time, read the post archives. I tend to assume that you've read the prior stuff, and I try to refrain from repeating topics, thus if you start to get confused or think I should write about something, check the archives first.Also, it would be lame if nobody read that stuff.Yeah, yeah, I'm being kinda lame.Go read stuff!Also, if you

Trevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11077034054274579217noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950447434537045602.post-790135769409967782008-03-28T15:22:00.000-07:002008-03-28T15:52:00.609-07:00

Oh man, I'm such a nerd.Anyways, the blogs have now been linked to the HMC Admissions website. Wheee!As if anyone read this thing before.So, onto the topic of the day: signals.Now, this could go plenty of different ways. I could talk about signaling each other. Which would in turn be about communication. Or, I can ramble about my High-Speed PCB Design class and all the lovely troubles I'm

Trevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11077034054274579217noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950447434537045602.post-24913859045566213142008-03-25T23:31:00.000-07:002008-08-01T13:37:27.384-07:00

I mentioned that I'm a Christian in my little intro. Just want to preface this by saying I don't speak for Christians, I wouldn't call myself a model Christian (then again, by definition a Christian should be someone who realizes they're flawed, but I'm getting off on a tangent there), and etc. all that legal stuff that gets me off the hook should I say something stupid.Anyways, the main thing

Trevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11077034054274579217noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950447434537045602.post-88625578846506652472008-03-23T11:38:00.000-07:002008-03-23T12:17:18.098-07:00

You don't talk about Room Draw.Unless you're in Room Draw. In which case, God help us all.Now, you might be wondering why this is such a big deal. I mean, the idea is pretty simple. People get a random priority number, you pull a room and roommate, some special rules about special petitions and stuff. Seems like a simple enough procedure. They even help us out by providing white boards of

Trevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11077034054274579217noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950447434537045602.post-50106193696088719612008-03-16T11:10:00.001-07:002008-03-16T11:35:31.309-07:00

Greetings. I am not insane. Just prefacing this particular post, because the moment most people see 24 Hour they freak out and think you're mental for doing something for 24 Hours.Anyways, there's been a high density of game related posts, and I'll be blogging on other things, but this just happened so I'm obligated to post about it.We recently (or are currently) concluding our annual 24 Hour

Trevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11077034054274579217noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950447434537045602.post-84315566479922298282008-03-12T16:48:00.000-07:002008-07-14T09:33:18.842-07:00

Preface: if the pictures are too big or whatever, I'll try harder next time.Harvey Mudd is classified as a small college. 700 Students. This means that you can potentially know everyone, and potentially everyone knows you. Of course, you can subvert the system by never leaving your room, but then usually your dorm/suite mates takes notice and try to contact, foiling your plot of

Trevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11077034054274579217noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950447434537045602.post-77767737598891435522008-03-09T22:24:00.000-07:002008-03-16T11:09:33.501-07:00

I'm being lazy and still figuring out where to put my pictures so I can start embedding them into my posts.So, instead, here's a fun review of the games of 2007 by Yahtzee, one of the best game reviewers out there today. Although he's a little insane sometimes and curses, he's one of the few that I agree with 100% and this particular vid has all the cursing bleeped out.Video LinkEnjoy!

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Here's some terms you might see pop up in the blogs or hear if you visit the campus. While not canonical definitions, they should help give you a good idea of the general meaning of the word/phrase.5th year – a student who is taking a 9th semester at Mudd due to scheduling AC – pronounced “ack”, short for Academic Computing (computer lab) or Academics, usually referring to the academic end of

Trevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11077034054274579217noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950447434537045602.post-54376119633865743582008-03-03T08:25:00.000-08:002008-03-03T08:49:46.965-08:00

That's what some days are made of.So, if you're a data mining insomniac (which one of my friends actually is) then you might have noticed a much lower density of posts this last week. The reason being I didn't want to post while sleep deprived (i.e. sleep dep-ed in HMC slang), grumpy, and generally not happy.You see, life at Harvey Mudd is not all fun and games. Sure there's times when it's fun

Trevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11077034054274579217noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950447434537045602.post-19578171570220003912008-02-23T21:29:00.000-08:002008-02-23T21:45:31.453-08:00

One trait that I really pride myself on, and I don't have that many, is the ability to observe.Now, anyone can see. Anyone can hear. Anyone can perceive. The trick is first to do it, and secondly what you do with it.I mean, how often do you observe your surroundings? What's the shape of the lights in your room? What was the last three people you were talking with wearing? How many windows

Trevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11077034054274579217noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950447434537045602.post-65055762694463956432008-02-18T10:37:00.000-08:002008-02-18T14:53:00.498-08:00

So, I said I'd explain a bit about the title, and here it is.spellman23 is my gaming alias.zomg, lolz @ gamerz poluting my interwebs!Seriously though, I'm a gamer. Granted, I'm not a pro gamer as much as sometimes I'd like to be. And it's not like I'm sucked into the vortex of one game. I play all games. Card, board, PC, sometimes a bit of console (don't own one, so I have to use the ones in

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If you thought of a game sound file reading that, well, I think enough said.So, I happen to be an engineer. Cool. Not a railroad engineer, I mean the kind that builds stuff and optimizes things and figures out new applications for the latest and greatest technology.At Mudd, we don't have Electrical Engineering Major, nor Aerospace Engineering Major, but instead have a General Engineering Major.

Trevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11077034054274579217noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950447434537045602.post-4733922910784476772008-02-09T15:06:00.000-08:002008-02-12T14:17:12.529-08:00

DISCLAIMER: The names in this story have been changed to protect the innocent, the guilty, the neutral-based, the bystanders, those caught in the middle, the shooter, the bum down the road, the cleintel, the dead, the living, the undead, the vampire I keep in my closet, my imaginary friend, the next door neighbor, but most importantly, to protect you the reader.It was a quiet day in the homestead

Trevinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950447434537045602.post-18234754860386393222008-02-07T23:26:00.000-08:002008-02-07T23:43:02.183-08:00

Greetings. I am Trevin Murakami.Who am I? I'm an Engineering Major class of 2009, Male, Christian, Gamer, Eastie, Anime Watcher, Server Operator, Event Organizer, Ultimate Frisbee Player, Musician, Fun Friendly Dude, Observer, Martial Artist noob, Video Editor, the list goes on and on. And while I'm not doing homework, well, there's lots of options out there.The key thing to remember is that

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