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and so onwards
Dec. 17th, 2010 03:18 pmAbsolute radio silence = finals week!
Three down and one to go. I have spent the last three days marathoning math-and-science takehome finals, and finished the last of those about an hour ago. Which meant I got to sit around and read webcomic updates, and put away all the laundry I had done this morning and just dumped on my bed, and later I will review Greek verbs and all the little words so I can take that final tomorrow morning.
Also, the afternoon light in this room is being gorgeous, and I have music. So those things are all good.
Promise to myself: to never take three math and science classes in one semester ever again. (Unless I, um, really have to at some point to finish my major or something. In which case it'll probably be okay, but optimally, not choosing to do that again.) By the end of yesterday I was sick and tired of math finals. Doing physics today was a relief, but still too similar for comfort.
I also woke up this morning knowing exactly what I did wrong on this one question on one of the math finals I turned in yesterday. Whoops.
In the midst of that, on Tuesday evening we went contra dancing. Wonderful fun. By the end of the evening we all felt a bit nauseous (and completely exhausted), and the bus back to campus didn't help, but--wonderful fun. It may have persuaded me, in fact, to bring a skirt back with me next semester. I didn't bring any skirts or dresses at all this semester, and never felt the lack except at the contra dance, where part of the point seems to be how swirly one's skirt is.
At some point recently--time's a bit vague--I looked up a whole pile of physics REUs and made a spreadsheet of places and deadlines and websites and topics. And I got advice from my advisor about resumes and essays and so on, which was really helpful. So I will apply for REUs over the break (some of them look really neat!) and also to Viable Paradise and possibly also to Taos Toolbox, which is good to have settled in my mind, at least.
...I should probably not actually act like I'm all done with finals now, because I'm not. But it feels so nice to sit here and let my brain uncompress from all that math and physics, and think about how I do not have much left to do before I go home.
Also! Important: do you have any advice for long train rides?
I am taking the train home for break, see, and I think I have a good notion of what I need to do (pack all the food ever, bring a water bottle, bring a blanket...), but there might be something I am forgetting.
Off now to try to study Greek. Maybe I will just sit in the sun and read the Iliad. That counts, right?
Three down and one to go. I have spent the last three days marathoning math-and-science takehome finals, and finished the last of those about an hour ago. Which meant I got to sit around and read webcomic updates, and put away all the laundry I had done this morning and just dumped on my bed, and later I will review Greek verbs and all the little words so I can take that final tomorrow morning.
Also, the afternoon light in this room is being gorgeous, and I have music. So those things are all good.
Promise to myself: to never take three math and science classes in one semester ever again. (Unless I, um, really have to at some point to finish my major or something. In which case it'll probably be okay, but optimally, not choosing to do that again.) By the end of yesterday I was sick and tired of math finals. Doing physics today was a relief, but still too similar for comfort.
I also woke up this morning knowing exactly what I did wrong on this one question on one of the math finals I turned in yesterday. Whoops.
In the midst of that, on Tuesday evening we went contra dancing. Wonderful fun. By the end of the evening we all felt a bit nauseous (and completely exhausted), and the bus back to campus didn't help, but--wonderful fun. It may have persuaded me, in fact, to bring a skirt back with me next semester. I didn't bring any skirts or dresses at all this semester, and never felt the lack except at the contra dance, where part of the point seems to be how swirly one's skirt is.
At some point recently--time's a bit vague--I looked up a whole pile of physics REUs and made a spreadsheet of places and deadlines and websites and topics. And I got advice from my advisor about resumes and essays and so on, which was really helpful. So I will apply for REUs over the break (some of them look really neat!) and also to Viable Paradise and possibly also to Taos Toolbox, which is good to have settled in my mind, at least.
...I should probably not actually act like I'm all done with finals now, because I'm not. But it feels so nice to sit here and let my brain uncompress from all that math and physics, and think about how I do not have much left to do before I go home.
Also! Important: do you have any advice for long train rides?
I am taking the train home for break, see, and I think I have a good notion of what I need to do (pack all the food ever, bring a water bottle, bring a blanket...), but there might be something I am forgetting.
Off now to try to study Greek. Maybe I will just sit in the sun and read the Iliad. That counts, right?
