Oh Hey Blog,
I’ve personally neglected you this past month. The only thing I’ve contributed to you besides comments on other people’s well-written posts was my drunken blog post on the evening when the men’s team tasted the rainbow during first weekend. Next to Elliot’s post, it almost felt shameful.
But now I’m back and ready to blog more often. Besides life updates, I have a few topics I’d like to cover. [Also, I’m looking forward to whoever writes the social networking posts.] But for now, a life update, just to catch everyone up and because it’s an easier post to write on a Sunday morning.
Showing posts with label classes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label classes. Show all posts
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Friday, September 4, 2009
Grad School: Week One
First off, where are you Tim, Toto, and Alfredo? Updates! Pronto! Stat! Schnell! (Do the French have a word for quickly? I'm thinking probably not. If they do its probably not a catchy one or two syllable one.)
Now it's time to update you on my first week at graduate school.
I'm taking three classes and being a lab T.A. My three classes are Quantum Mechanics, Electromagnetic Theory, and Mathematical Methods of Optics and Physics. So far it seems like my first semester will be covering material that I've already seen before, but trying to really get it down this time. I'll be T.A.ing for intro mechanics and E&M labs, which should be fun, but right now means that I have to do all of their ten labs in the next week, which is not so fun.
I'm in an office with two other first years (though there are supposed to be three others but apparently they have found somewhere else to do all their work). The other two students in my office are Shane, who graduated from Knox College in Iowa last year, and Jim who graduated from Hamilton (and also swam as an undergrad) but has been teaching high school near Boston for the last few years.
I found out that the motto here at U of R is Meliora which is Latin for "Always Better" or some other similar phrase with the word better in it. This is slightly less verbose than Carleton's motto (Declaratio Sermonum Tuorum Illuminat--"The Revelation of Your Words Illuminates"), but it's still a good one. The colors seem to be pretty much exactly the same as Carleton's, but the mascot is a yellowjacket (bee).
Now it's time to update you on my first week at graduate school.
I'm taking three classes and being a lab T.A. My three classes are Quantum Mechanics, Electromagnetic Theory, and Mathematical Methods of Optics and Physics. So far it seems like my first semester will be covering material that I've already seen before, but trying to really get it down this time. I'll be T.A.ing for intro mechanics and E&M labs, which should be fun, but right now means that I have to do all of their ten labs in the next week, which is not so fun.
I'm in an office with two other first years (though there are supposed to be three others but apparently they have found somewhere else to do all their work). The other two students in my office are Shane, who graduated from Knox College in Iowa last year, and Jim who graduated from Hamilton (and also swam as an undergrad) but has been teaching high school near Boston for the last few years.
I found out that the motto here at U of R is Meliora which is Latin for "Always Better" or some other similar phrase with the word better in it. This is slightly less verbose than Carleton's motto (Declaratio Sermonum Tuorum Illuminat--"The Revelation of Your Words Illuminates"), but it's still a good one. The colors seem to be pretty much exactly the same as Carleton's, but the mascot is a yellowjacket (bee).
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