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.
They do have a webmail client, but Gmail has ruined me for all other webmail clients.
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.
I'm hoping to take QFT1 in the fall (since I've finished QMI&II).
I took an elementary particles course in junior year. One day, the professor asked us to derive the electroweak unification as an in-class exercise. No one, including him, was able to finish it during the class time. (He does lattice QCD theory, and I've seen him derive supersymmetry models just about from scratch.)
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?
I decided just to take the November test, instead of doing both the October and November like many of my friends did. I got better results from not having to interrupt my study schedule with the stress of an actual test than some of them did from taking it twice. (But, obligatorily, YMMV.)
Yeah. It shouldn't be too big of a deal, it's just more irritating than anything else, to be honest.
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. 
That sounds like an interesting experiment in classical conditioning. You'll just have to sign these release forms...
At least you're close to DC so you'll be able to get direct flights to Geneva.
You know, I actually hadn't considered that. It will be nice to avoid Amsterdam Airport; that place is a zoo.
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.
I don't have a problem with reading from a screen, unlike many people, and I think having the instant access will make me more likely to try new books and series. It will probably be a good investment.
That's nice then. 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...
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...I like being near the city, but not in it. Keeps the rent down. It will certainly be an improvement from the NY capital district, which is a cultural wasteland.
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.
No, I took it, I just didn't like it and didn't learn it very well. I think the one point of agreement among all physicists is that there is no good undergraduate thermo book.
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 
High energy projects are starting to utilize it more and more, since it's easier for the computationally-unwashed masses. Trying to get someone who's never taken a real programming class to manage memory and pointers in regular ROOT (rather than PyROOT) is basically impossible. It also gets used for a lot of user algorithms, since it's easier to do modular stuff with it. That's where I've seen it the most, but I've never sat down and dug into it the way I have with Java, C++, etc.
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. Probably more than I should, really, but it hasn't seem to harm me much.
I mostly skive off all these meetings.
Probably more than I should, really, but it hasn't seem to harm me much. PIs end up going to a lot more meetings, since they have to corral all their underlings. We, as lowly students, can sit back and be the corralees.
So any good news out there?
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I have a crush on the Weber Grill restaurant.
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Yes.
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Cool!
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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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photo? please? *NM*
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I've been switching back and forth between RAFO, reddit, and facebook all day
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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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