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Happy Pi Day! One of the few mathematical days that I can enjoy. I think I'm going to go and find out the birthday's of some important mathematicians and start to celebrate those too. I want to go get some pie and celebrate, but honestly I don't feel like buying a whole pie and just having it sit around my fridge for the week, tempting me to eat it. I would go and just buy a slice, but the only place I know that had decent pie was Za's, and they stopped carrying apple pie. Sad day that was.

So, I'm in IB 101 - Biological Sciences right now, and we've just started doing protein synthesis and stuff like that. So I brought up Folding@home on the Moodle forum and my professor was really excited! Folding@home is a distributed computing project that simulates protein folding in order to study mutations and the like. My boyfriend has been doing this for about a decade now, and I decided to start recently too. It's like donating your computer's processing power while you're not using it in order to research proteins. And there's competitions you can do with other people who fold, it's pretty geeky. I love it. You can find out more about the science behind it here. Dan's really excited that I started :)

I've decided that since it's warm out I'm going to start running around my apartment in the mornings. I really want to get that Nike sensor thing, especially since I now own a pair of shoes that are compatible with it. But, as things always end up, I'm probably going to stop about a week into it and buying the sensor would have been a waste of money.

Easter's coming up! Which means I'm going to be going home for a week, go to school for 4 days, and then go back home. I know U of I is secular, but it would be way easier to plan spring break to be during the holidays. Other colleges do it :( I don't really feel like going to class on Good Friday, not that it's a holiday but I like any excuse to not go to my MATH 403 - Euclidean Geometry class.