LTWP

Lukas is an nineteen year-old boy and this is his diary. More on ltwp.org.

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SHUT UP AND PLAY THE HITS

I’ve been a big LCD Soundsystem (and James Murphy) since the moment I heard the first few words of “LCD Soundsystem.” However, my int-tune-ness with the live music scene and interest in the group peaked only after their famous final show. I also missed an opportunity to see James Murphy DJ in Chicago… It makes me want to kick myself. I sketched out a bucket list of sorts this past week and “see/meet/hear James Murphy live” is on there, but it’s doubtful it will ever happen. I need to keep my ear to the ground for any last chance I might have.

Pitchfork has an excellent write-up of LCD Soundsystem’s history through songs here (though it gets wordy and hoity-toity at times).

Regardless, I’ll be seeing this film without a doubt.

For the record: my favorite LCD Soundsystem song is likely ‘45:33’ part 2. Or if that’s too pretentious, maybe ‘Dance Yrself Clean.’ And I think my favorite remix is Tiga’s ‘I Can Change.’

LaTeX is basically industry standard for mathematics notation. I’m just starting to get familiar with it and found an excellent and easy-to-read guide hosted by a professor at Trinity College Dublin here. I think knowledge of it could help me hit the ground running if I end up doing research this summer, but I’m still deciding on that. Above is Simpson’s rule, a 2nd-degree accurate integral approximation method.

LaTeX is basically industry standard for mathematics notation. I’m just starting to get familiar with it and found an excellent and easy-to-read guide hosted by a professor at Trinity College Dublin here. I think knowledge of it could help me hit the ground running if I end up doing research this summer, but I’m still deciding on that.

Above is Simpson’s rule, a 2nd-degree accurate integral approximation method.

I made this to-do list tuesday night, not expecting to get half of it done. Instead, it turned into what might have been the most productive day in my life. I have a calculus class from 9-10 every morning, then I spend 10-12 in the library doing homework (“252 probs”—my math homework). Following that, EA (engineering analysis) class from 12-1. Then, between 1 and 2, I ate lunch, went to the student center, and submitted my fundraising to a school philanthropy event. From 2-3 I have an EECS C++ programming class. I asked my questions and reviewed the assignments during class as the lecture was boring and repetitive. Between 3 and 4 I had another hour: I called a scholarship organization, prepared for a study abroad interview I had on thursday, and then “chilled”—by which I mean I checked facebook and twitter and poked around the ‘net a bit. I had class 4-5:30, then walked 15minutes to my dorm room to change into a suit for a career fair from 6-7. Ate dinner, finished & printed an application for a counselor position, neatly recopied some of my math and EA homework, and then did EDC (another class) homework. The only reason I didn’t cross it off is because I was doing it as I fell asleep around 2am. I think 2012 might be the year I am too busy for the internet.

I made this to-do list tuesday night, not expecting to get half of it done. Instead, it turned into what might have been the most productive day in my life. I have a calculus class from 9-10 every morning, then I spend 10-12 in the library doing homework (“252 probs”—my math homework). Following that, EA (engineering analysis) class from 12-1. Then, between 1 and 2, I ate lunch, went to the student center, and submitted my fundraising to a school philanthropy event. From 2-3 I have an EECS C++ programming class. I asked my questions and reviewed the assignments during class as the lecture was boring and repetitive. Between 3 and 4 I had another hour: I called a scholarship organization, prepared for a study abroad interview I had on thursday, and then “chilled”—by which I mean I checked facebook and twitter and poked around the ‘net a bit. I had class 4-5:30, then walked 15minutes to my dorm room to change into a suit for a career fair from 6-7. Ate dinner, finished & printed an application for a counselor position, neatly recopied some of my math and EA homework, and then did EDC (another class) homework. The only reason I didn’t cross it off is because I was doing it as I fell asleep around 2am.

I think 2012 might be the year I am too busy for the internet.

WIWT. Gant New Haven oxford (the. best. fit.—for me at least), amappy T, Rag & Bone trousers (also just fit me PERFECTLY), and adidas sambas. The pants were on sale, but the shirt was full price, around $125, which is a ton by my standards. But I’m being thoughtful in my clothing purchases of late—they’re investments, rather than just purchases. I treat this shirt well, and hopefully it will return the favor. I love it!

WIWT. Gant New Haven oxford (the. best. fit.—for me at least), amappy T, Rag & Bone trousers (also just fit me PERFECTLY), and adidas sambas. The pants were on sale, but the shirt was full price, around $125, which is a ton by my standards. But I’m being thoughtful in my clothing purchases of late—they’re investments, rather than just purchases. I treat this shirt well, and hopefully it will return the favor. I love it!

Thinking about tumbling again.

I’ve kept this account to keep 2718 running, but I think I’d like to start blogging again. I want to help use it to reinforce my knowledge though—more educational and contemplative (kinda anti-tumblr in that sense: fewer shorter posts, more in-depth thoughts).

Inspired by this, I suppose.

Well…

With that, I’ve decided to more or less stop tumbling. I’ll let LTWP sit for a few days before deleting it. ILMS won’t live much longer, probably, but 2718 will keep going.

email y’all!

Me spanning two Eames chairs. Cuz, you know… no biggie.

Me spanning two Eames chairs. Cuz, you know… no biggie.

Real-Time updates on Lukas’ college consideration! Breaking News!!!

Less certain about Carnegie Mellon. Or rather, more thoughts on Northeastern.

It goes back to the same basic argument: academics/reputation or freedom/fun? I wonder if Northeastern’s great Co-Op program would let me eschew the ‘reputation’ aspect of it when job searching—I will have had experience in the fields I’m really interested in already. Does that outweigh a name? Am I caring too much?

I kind of want to get out of the midwest. And Pittsburgh is… in the midwest, more or less. But I may very well be back to Boston later in my life, for reasons other than college. Pittsburgh’s nothing to shake a stick at, but Boston is the college town… I will have high school friends there and a bigger sea of people to meet and befriend in general. But does this actually happen? I dunno. Trying to figure that out.

Do I want that big of a sea of people (CMU is ~6000 undergrads, quite a nice number but you never know, and of course there’s mingling with the other schools in the area)? Do I want to have a significant other? Why is it that so often people meet theirs in college? Why am I worrying about this? Are these just stream-of-consciousness questions that I really shouldn’t think about (probably).

EDIT: NONE of this is to say CMU isn’t fun and social and NeU has no reputation/academics… I’m looking only at the minutiae of differences between the two.

Just more flittering considerations, nothing serious.

In other news, have I ever told you how much I love this song from Grease? The boy who sang the part of the Angel in our school production is awesome, no less. I’ve been humming this for a few weeks now. No lie.

P.S. thank you, tumblr, for the amazing response to my past two posts! You’re a great help and source of encouragement, but I’ll move on by myself as well.

Well,

I didn’t get into the universities I wanted to. Now I have to make peace with being myself, rather than my ideal self. I hate that it matters so much to me, but I can’t fix that right now.

Love my little brother. I’m still in Florida, but he texted me this from home:

“Rukas, parents are gone thursday night. I have a subwoofer and there’s a 7-11 2 minutes away. We’re going to party.”

Yaaaaay 14-year-old bros

More Personal Tumblr Ideas

This is a curt list of my favorite ‘personal’ tumblrs. Please don’t be offended if you’re not on it:

I’m trying to connect the dots as to why I like these most. I think they all balance a variety of posts and a mix of super-personal interesting tidbits and things with slightly more mass appeal. Almost all of them are creative people who like doing stuff!

And they all have categorical things that make their blogs interesting. inky is deluged in internet culture and his crazy droning music. I’m not one for it, but it’s neat to see someone so interested.

I like Eric’s blog because he posts funny accounts and things I can relate to as a student. And interesting artwork.

Kristen is just pretty awesome. I like that she shares what her friends are up to, and of course I like the stuff she works on too.

Brandon listens to great music and I think he and I share a lot of values. He posts a genuinely interesting medley of everything in his life, and it’s interesting.

Kevs is the king of the funny personal account. He seems to have an acute memory and way of telling his stories so that they’re especially poignant. Plus he likes LEGO!

Justin probably thinks I’m creepy because I “like” every single song he posts. I think he posts some of the best music and also shares, on occasion, his excellent photography and hints at the interesting work he does.

And Guy posts interesting media and real stories about his life and being a father. His blog feels fully honest, I think, and I like that.

So what can I learn from this? Lemme mull it over.

(to those in this list: hope I don’t offend!)

The Affair to Remember

I love the Bygone Bureau!

just chillin’

just chillin’

This is the first truly stress-free spring break I’ve had in a long time…

This is the first truly stress-free spring break I’ve had in a long time…

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