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So I've had a lot of free time this semester. Grad school is quite weird. I feel like I've had it a little easier than others so far, but I'm sure that will change. The classwork doesn't take a longer amount of time, it just requires more complex, intense thinking than the stuff I learned in undergrad. The lectures are extremely emotionally taxing.
For example, if you take a math course, you spend a lecture on this method, a lecture on that method, so on and so forth. In my fluid mechanics class, if you don't remember stuff from about 2 weeks worth of math lectures, its very hard to keep track of what is going on. Same thing for acoustics. I'm combining fluid mechanics and vibrations, so its hard to keep track of everything continuously.
Research is going well, though. I think I'll really enjoy my thesis project and we've made some progress on it. If the project is a staircase, we're one step in. I work with 4 undergrads right now, all on the same stuff. I'm not their superior, this stuff is new so we all know the same amount about it. I believe next semester we're going to start branching off on different subtopics of the stuff we're working on now. That will be interesting.
I'm not sure what my summer plans are yet. I have to sit down with Dr. Ryherd and figure out what the normal procedure is. If any of you have friends in science-related grad school, what do people usually do in the summer? I would assume work on thesis projects, but I'm really hoping to do an industry internship.
That's my life in a nutshell. Coming back to Michigan on Thursday, excited about that!
For example, if you take a math course, you spend a lecture on this method, a lecture on that method, so on and so forth. In my fluid mechanics class, if you don't remember stuff from about 2 weeks worth of math lectures, its very hard to keep track of what is going on. Same thing for acoustics. I'm combining fluid mechanics and vibrations, so its hard to keep track of everything continuously.
Research is going well, though. I think I'll really enjoy my thesis project and we've made some progress on it. If the project is a staircase, we're one step in. I work with 4 undergrads right now, all on the same stuff. I'm not their superior, this stuff is new so we all know the same amount about it. I believe next semester we're going to start branching off on different subtopics of the stuff we're working on now. That will be interesting.
I'm not sure what my summer plans are yet. I have to sit down with Dr. Ryherd and figure out what the normal procedure is. If any of you have friends in science-related grad school, what do people usually do in the summer? I would assume work on thesis projects, but I'm really hoping to do an industry internship.
That's my life in a nutshell. Coming back to Michigan on Thursday, excited about that!