Exams never end? False! I finished my exams on July 9th and I’m ready to go to Brown University in October. Yes, I’m excited.
But.
But once you’re done with your duty and you should be light and happy like fresh air, that’s the time when deep feelings come out. Life is not only about your life, but is about your life mixed up with others’ lifes. Too often the mix doesn’t work well enough to make you happy. One solution is to change the ingredients, the other involves trying to shake harder, although the more you shake the worse the mix can come out.
Do I need a different ingredient?
I’m an Andy Warhol fan and a photography hobbyist. Add to these facts the consideration that I love Dalì and would really like to see a revival of baroque and rococo mixed with pop culture and you’ll understand why I’d love to get David Lachapelle’s Heaven to Hell. Yes, I’d like Artists and Prostitutes too, but hell, 2500 (twothousandfivehundred) euros…
P.S. I added this book to the Books’ whislist.
Some photos I took (with the digital camera…:( ) before my voluntary isolation to prepare my last exams.
P.s. The “:(” at the top of the post is due to the fact that I enjoy taking photos with my Leica CL more than I do with my digital camera. I have many reasons for this fact (see a previous post: “Evolving while going backwards) but must still admit that the digital camera really makes taking good photos easier, at least to me at this point of my “photographer experience”. 
I announced it before, more than one and half year ago, but now it’s real: my blog becomes bilingual: English and Italian (no, I’m not going to translate every post in both languages: it only means that I will seldom post in Italian).
For you, English readers, you can subscribe to the English category RSS feed.
I took this decision because I’m feeling a bit constrained by English (which is a bad sign, because it means I cannot master this language as well as I should/would). There are ideas, feelings and thoughts which need longer posts with a better syntactical construction and more appropriate vocabulary, and I feel more confident of my mother tongue to write them.
Yes, that can be an explanation but it is also true that I’m too lazy to look up words in the dictionary and think about the best way to express my feelings in English in longer posts.
So, now that I admitted it, I may retrace my footsteps (yes, I looked this expression up in the dictionary), take this fact as a challenge to improve my English and keep on writing in English only anyway. =)
I found my lost twin. It’s Seth Rogen. Thanks goes to Fontzy for having pointed this out to me and for the image below. Oh gosh, I should now watch all Seth’s movies! =)
But yesterday I had my beard and hair cut…
My last finals session is approaching and is starting in two weeks. Oh gosh!
Today, real studying starts too. =)
As I said before, I’m reading seminal papers for my Ms.C thesis. I still have to choose the topic of the thesis but Prof. Pietracaprina, Prof. Upfal and Prof. Peserico gave me two topics to choose from.
I’ve never said before that I will work on my thesis at Brown University, Providence, RI, USA, starting from October 2008 until June 2009, under the supervision of Prof. Upfal and of one between Prof. Pietracaprina and Prof. Peserico. This is a great chance for me, to have such advisors.
IMHO, every student should make an academic experience in a foreign country, and EU has many projects in this sens (e.g. Erasmus). Too often, these experiences result only in “a nice holyday abroad in cool cities”. Students should understand that they should invest more on the additional value of studying abroad: creating accademic contacts, working on advanced projects, getting in touch with different research realities, and so on.
Anyway, back to the topics. Prof. Pietracaprina suggested working on “Sampling for Association Rules using Closed Frequent Itemset”, while Prof. Peserico suggested: “Birth and development mechanisms of small-world networks”. Prof. Upfal just told me to choose between these topics, or, as he said:”you can even choose not to choose and work on both!”. =)
More on this in the next few days.
Yes. My actual situation can surely be an example of what busy is.
I’m taking four courses this trimester. This is two courses above the average for my Master course.
One of them has a laboratory. Two of them have projects to work on in groups.
I’m reading seminal papers on Data Mining (frequent itemsets in transactions) and on Smallworld networks. I have to choose between these two topics for my Master thesis. I should give Prof. Upfal, Prof. Pietracaprina, and Prof. Peserico an answer before the end of the next week. And I’ve not read all the papers yet.
Oh gosh. And please don’t ask me why I’m not in Ottawa for BSDCan.. =)
I know it may sound a bit weird, but I really like loading the film on my Leica CL. It’s a simple but important action which thrills me.
