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Re: I know. Spriteling Send a noteboard - 04/08/2011 02:48:08 AM

It probably is some forwarding thing that I didn't realize had been set up.


I was surprised when I first started getting emails addressed to my FNAL account that ended up in my uni email account. I suppose it was good though, cos I still have no idea where I'd log in if I had to check them somewhere else.


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.


Yeah, that's fair enough. I actually had a great theory project that I did as well this summer; I had to self-teach myself a lot of the beginnings of QCD and electroweak theory, but it was totally worth it, and now I'm much more prepared to take a course in RQFT this autumn.

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.


Yeah. I'm really not looking forward to how much of a production it's going to be to take it. And since it's so far away, I really need to score well on my first try. No pressure, right?

In my experience, professors are very understanding about having to miss class for grad school-related things.


Yeah. It shouldn't be too big of a deal, it's just more irritating than anything else, to be honest.

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... :dead:


Really? That sounds horrible. I've decided that I'm going to make my friends carry around chocolate so that when I have grad school related breakdowns, they can give me some to make it all better. :D

Hey, it's only 8 hours each way. :cries:


At least you're close to DC so you'll be able to get direct flights to Geneva.

I'm probably going to get a Kindle to keep myself occupied without breaking my back.


Getting a Kindle was one of the best decisions I've made. It's saved my back on all my transatlantic trips. I highly recommend it.


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.


That's nice then. :D I'm refusing to look at schools that aren't at least near some big cities; I'd prefer them to be in big cities, but one must allow some leeway...

We must be. :D

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.


Did you not have to take thermo as part of your major? I managed to skive out on it by switching to maths, which I kind of regret cos now I'm needing to teach myself a fair bit of it for the PGRE.

C++ is very useful to know. In all these years, though, I've never really learned Python thoroughly.


Python is awesome. It's the first language I was really fluent in, and it's what I program all of my personal projects in. I'd highly recommend it, though it's not fantastic for computationally intensive things. It also spoils you, since you don't need semi-colons at the end of each line :P


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.


Oh yeah, no one goes to all the meetings. Although I do swear that my advisers spends at least half his life in the different ones he does have to go to.

I mostly skive off all these meetings. :P Probably more than I should, really, but it hasn't seem to harm me much. :D
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