This week is la “Semaine du Developpment Durable à l’X”, or Sustainability Week at Polytechnique. The sustainability club planned a bunch of activities throughout the week, including creating a “relaxation lounge” in the Grand Hall with a bunch of plants... Continue Reading →
As a foreign exchange student, I am required to take some sort of cultural/humanities class while I am at Polytechnique. I was originally going to do Art and Politics, but that conflicted with climbing practice, so I switched to Francophonie... Continue Reading →
This is what all of the climbers call Fontainebleau, the forest we go to every Thursday to go bouldering. It took me a few repetitions to figure out what they were saying because it really just sounds like they got... Continue Reading →
I was (definitely) paying attention during my Instabilities and Turbulence class this morning (note that this is my only lecture in English) as the professor droned on about accretion disks and how they are stable according to the Rayleigh discriminant but... Continue Reading →
I decided to make this a series because the giggles just keep coming. In class today, we were learning about the Navier-Bernoulli model of beams and how to analyse them. I always thought Navier was a pretty cool guy considering his name... Continue Reading →
I really can't get behind this whole turn-into-a-pretzel-while-you-dance thing that the French seem to be all about. It just leads to me hitting my partner on the head (twice) or turning the wrong way and body-slamming another girl (once) or... Continue Reading →
Margaux Rhymes with Fargo 