Category Archives: School

Anything pertaining to school– be it high school, undergrad, or grad school.

The End is Near (i.e. here)

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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Graduation!!!

I finally graduated!!!

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Classes…

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 [...]

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Final Courses at Hood College

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 [...]

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Done.

One item on my seemingly-infinite ‘to do’ list is finally done– I have submitted all of my grad school applications.

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Admission to Berkeley!

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’ [...]

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Grad School Applications

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 [...]

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Fall semester ending, euro trip, and spring semester starting…

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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Semester Winding Down (A tiny bit)

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. [...]

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Where did all the hours go?

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 [...]

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