Children of Men, and qualifier woes

Jan 09, 2007 19:18

I'm just starting my qualifier today! I'm honestly a lot less stressed now that it's started. I've been sick for the past week and the professors were nice enough to postpone it for several days. So for the next eleven days, I will disappear into a hole and learn a whole lot about thermodynamics and steam engines. My friend looked at the problem I'm supposed to solve, looked profoundly puzzled and said, "i don't understand how you can bear to do this stuff" I found that deeply amusing because at that moment I was so relieved that the problem was about two things that I find really interesting: Trains, and heat transfer. Maybe this PhD thing is a good idea afterall...

So after the qualifier, I'm gonna actually keep up with this journal thing, I think.

And I have a sincere movie recommendation. Go see Children of Men. I think it's the best movie I've seen since whenever, and It's gonna stay with me for a long time. With that said, be warned, it's very tense. Kinda like the first three minutes of Saving Private Ryan, but instead of WWII, it's more like the raw footage coming out of Iraq. I didn't know a thing about the movie before I saw it, and I loved that surprise, so I'll stop here. But if anyone has seen it already, post back, I'd love to discuss.

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