sometimes life is like... the apprentice?

dude.

so today is the last day of classes. my advisor had assigned a program involving q-analogs of an algorithm we'd been learning about all semester, so we assumed that would be our last lecture. alas, no such thing.

instead, he announced "today we will do something more exciting -- software development! everybody will have a little part to do, and you will have lieutenants to report to. if you don't do your work, your lieutenant has to cover for you. i've already picked the leaders. my most senior graduate students are lara and eric."

someone interrupted "but what about aek?!" (aek is currently a 5th year, eric and i are 4th years).

z. got back to his project pitch "oh aek, i'm sorry, but you're too nice, you're not good at bossing people around, and actually, eric you do too much of your work in mathematica instead of maple, so lara is the boss! ok! and aek, eric, and baxter report to her. here's what the rest of your do."

apparently we're writing a program to solve kakuro puzzles.
* aek's team is in charge of writing a program to generate random test puzzles (although when i went around and harassed teams to make sure that their programming data structures were consistent with each other aek was taking a nap while his team did all the work).
* eric's team is in charge of taking a puzzle and translating it into a ridiculously huge system of diophantine equations.
* baxter's team is in charge of writing a program to solve the equations.
* i'm in charge of putting it all together interfacing it and making sure it works nice. it's due monday, and i'm going to be traveling friday and saturday to chicago and not so much online to receive parts of the program or work on fitting it together.

we'll see how this goes...

but apparently, i'm the ideal choice for a "project manager" to network people, interface work, and scare them into meeting deadlines. too bad there's not a competing team to take down. ;)

wish me luck with my week!

the end. :P