Well, my FNAL email automatically reroutes everything to my uni email, so...maybe it sorted of automatically transferred to whatever email your FNAL account was going to? Yeah...I have no idea where I was going with that.
It probably is some forwarding thing that I didn't realize had been set up.
See, I have way more patience for the theory than I do for dealing with experimental stuff. My work this summer that was experimental involved completely rewriting portions of the Minerva Monte Carlo cos it was so useless. I really enjoyed that, but I think I'd've been really bored if I was doing data analysis for 10 weeks.
See, I did mostly data analysis for 10 weeks and loved it. I worked on some simulations as well, but usually in the interest of getting a better comparison for data.
X is the best. 
And yeah, it kinda does, but the PGRE is only offered in one places in the UK. So, I either need to take 3 trains and travel 8 hours to one of the parts of the UK that is furthest from me, or I can just fly to Norway. I haven't yet decided which I'll do, cos both involve missing a day of uni and stuff.
And yeah, it kinda does, but the PGRE is only offered in one places in the UK. So, I either need to take 3 trains and travel 8 hours to one of the parts of the UK that is furthest from me, or I can just fly to Norway. I haven't yet decided which I'll do, cos both involve missing a day of uni and stuff.If the train(s) will take that long, I can see why flying might be a better option. Being exhausted from traveling certainly won't make the test any easier.
In my experience, professors are very understanding about having to miss class for grad school-related things.
Yeah. I plan on asking my professors to help me pick out schools in the UK, but most of them don't know a ton about the US so I'm on my own for that, really. I think I'm going to try to keep it to about 8 applications, because otherwise I'll go insane.
Grad applications are definitely insanity-inducing. Especially the ones that haven't been updated since 1996 and still have 30-character limits on all the text fields...
That's a really good deal. 
You're going to get really bored of airplanes if you're flying back and forth a lot, though. 
You're going to get really bored of airplanes if you're flying back and forth a lot, though. Hey, it's only 8 hours each way.
I'm probably going to get a Kindle to keep myself occupied without breaking my back.
I don't know much about UMD CP; is it near Baltimore?
It's closer to DC. College Park has a metro stop. Maryland's not that big, though, so it's not too far from Baltimore either.
Yeah, I know what you mean. That's rather what happened to me with Northwestern; they ended up pulling out all the stops for my visit,, and they'd really only spoken to my be email and seen my CV. Guess we're pretty cool. 
We must be.
I love it when professors explicitly give you permission to do things like that. Such good times. When do you take quals?UMD splits them into two separate parts, Classical and Quantum, and we can take them in January and August. I've already taken graduate Quantum I and II, so I'll probably take the Quantum part in January. The Classical part will require me to know things like thermo, so I'll wait longer on that one.
That sounds interesting. I've really enjoyed my software project. Teaching myself C++ was definitely a useful thing.
C++ is very useful to know. In all these years, though, I've never really learned Python thoroughly.
The biggest thing that would get me about the huge collaborations is the massive amounts of meetings! Minerva has like, 60-70 collaborators, but they're are like, two or 3 meetings everyday about different things. It's mind-boggling.
There are a ton of meetings in the CMS collaboration, but usually people don't go to most of them. I only went to meetings 2 or 3 times a week when I was at Fermi.
So any good news out there?
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the lillies in my garden are blooming
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bah I said no I win you lose stuff and it will get 108 today here in Dallas 
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Day lilies or Asiatic? *NM*
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day blooming sword lillies
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After failing it the first time, I got a B- in the General Physics I class I took this summer.
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Oh ho! AND! Just got done w/audiologist. My new hearing aid also functions as a Bluetooth. 
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Ummmm what?! Is this as awesome as it sounds?
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I was just told that my job is extended, and I get to do what I love the most!! *NM*
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It's Friday!
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