The first semester of my graduate school career is over — woohoo!!! I just finished my last exam on Friday. I don’t know what kind of grades I earned yet, but I am pretty happy with how classes went — I now have a pretty solid understanding of the basics of Quantum Mechanics [...]
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So it’s been two weeks since classes started, and I’ve come to believe that I will be able to handle this semester after all. I have to admit that when I realized what my workload was essentially a full 21 credits, I was a bit worried. I don’t doubt at all that this [...]
So I finally sat down and finished registering for the last semester of classes I will take as an undergraduate. There are a couple credits still in the air, but this is what I have locked in:
Course Number
Course Description
Schedule
ENGL – 264
Thematic Studies: Visions in Medieval Lit
MW, 11:30 AM – 12:45 PM
ITLS – 300
Cultures of [...]
One item on my seemingly-infinite ‘to do’ list is finally done– I have submitted all of my grad school applications.
I received a letter of acceptance from the University of California, Berkeley today! Well actually it was an email with the official letter in PDF format, but same difference. I actually knew that I was accepted a few days ago when they sent me a ‘your letter of acceptance will be coming soon’ [...]
Well grad school applications have been taking a good chunk of my time for the past few weeks. I’m applying to the physical chemistry programs at University of California – Berkeley, University of Colorado – Boulder, University of Washington – Seattle, and Stanford University.
I’m shooting pretty high, but I am optimistic that [...]
Well first off it bears a mention that I have already typed this whole long post up before. However nearing the end of it I saw fit to hit the close button on the browser for some idiotic reason. So now I shall type it up again.
The fall semester ended in the normal [...]
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Well the semester is winding down a tiny bit. I am finally getting a handle on pchem, or at least I am used to falling behind. We only have one meet left in cross-country and thats next weekend in Salisbury. The programming team is also finished with its competitions for the semester. [...]
So for the past few weeks I have been utterly decimated by work. It seems like I wake up, work, go to class, work, and go back to sleep. Then on the weekends I spend all day saturday at a x-country meet and sunday is spent working on all my homework in a [...]