School....
I've been going a little out of my mind for the past two weeks. Mostly, it's because of me not getting any sleep for a night or two in a row, hyped up on Adderall, which puts me in a terrible mood. Then I drink Nyquil to try to get to sleep, and I sleep, but I feel like crap the next morning - even worse then I do WITHOUT sleep. Attempts to get in shape have been utterly spoiled because my entire body hurts every afternoon/evening due to a messed up sleeping and eating schedule...
Now, lists -
REU Internships: I talked with Dr. Riley about trying to get an internship this summer. He basically told me that no matter how good my grades are (and they could be better), I wouldn't be able to get into a big/good one because of Ursinus being pretty much unknown amongst the science community. Greeaat. But he gave me a site for the National Science Foundation, and I wrote down all of the schools that have high energy/particle physics internships this summer. A lot of them don't even have info up on them yet, though. I just hope I can get into a decent one. Dr. Riley also said that next summer I may be able to get an internship working with him, which would be really cool, as I like him and am comfortable with him, and it's close to home, etc., but it would still be best to get a really GOOD one for grad schools. So, that's up in the air.
AP Scores: I still haven't gotten my AP English Writing and Literature scores transferred. That'll cost like 30 bucks. Gak.
Home: My parents at it again like usual, with my sister often being treated like shit, which I hate. My mom also had her friend take our cat away to the pound. They are both so ridiculously immature. My grandmother is apparently leaving my grandfather in a few years, and her and my sister might get a house together. THAT should be interesting.
Skin: So, the little splotches on my skin spread with really crazy quickness in the first week of school. Googling, I found what it is - it's called Tinea Versicolor. Basically, it's a strange fungus that is found in EVERYONE, but in certain individuals under certain circumstances it reacts in a way so as to cause the little splotches I have on me. Specifically, it affects young adult males of 'darker ethnicity' (fuck you, Puerto Rican..), when it's humid and hot out. Yup. It's otherwise completely harmless. But I really have no time to schedule a doctor's appointment, and even if I get it treated, the splotches may persist for weeks.
Yearbook: Yearbook editor am I! It's starting to get really crazy - in particular because rather than using Adobe Pagemaker to make pages, we switched to an online program provided by the publisher. This is going to be good in the long run, since people can access it from their laptops at any time, but it's hard getting things set up. And our adviser is sort of disorganized and not as on top of things as she should be. So I have to make page templates and finish the 2006 Spring Supplement (which LAST year's editor should have done..), and organize meetings and all of that crap. I have a meeting this Wednesday at 1, and then I have to spend the rest of the night sorting out stuff and sending out emails. Then on the 20th there's another training meeting at EIGHT PM (I hate late meetings..). Crazy.
Math Physics: So far, the class has been really easy. I did both homeworks assigned so far in like 45 minutes total. One was turned in on Monday, and the other gets turned in on Friday. Now, to find somewhere to print my stuff....
Linear Algebra: Easy too, for the most part. I got a 10/10 on the first quiz, but a 7/10 on the second quiz, which made me sad. It's mostly because I made my definitions too vague. So, on the next quiz (one every friday!), I'm actually going to USE the little notecard we're allowed to write down just definitions. Last Thursday we had our first Lab, which me and Harry finished during the class period because we were already familiar with Maple; we're just prettifying it up and turning it in this Thursday. Today in class we did most of a worksheet, which is due on the 20th. And next Friday is the first exam! A lot of work, but it's all easy so far.
Latin Poetry: There's only 3 other people in this class, and only two are actually students (one is doing a grad work thing with the class). The teacher is crazy and awesome, and so far the only work has been translating. The hard part is that we only got up to Ch. 20 in our Latin book last year, and we're reading Ch. 30 - 32. Um... Right. So I've been looking like a fool every now and then, and spending WAY too much time translating things.
E&M Fields: This class is mostly a joke because the professor, the head of the physics department, is getting increasingly senile. He made the first exam way easier than it should have been. I got an 86, but would have had a 90 if it wasn't for the fact that he took off for calculations that we got wrong, that he didn't specifically point out were supposed to be that way. (It was a positive vs. a negative type thing, and he never worked out the equations all of the way on the board, to show that at the last step, they magically somehow become negative!). But other than that, a lot of reading and problem-solving in my 'free time.'
I think that's about all....
Now, lists -
REU Internships: I talked with Dr. Riley about trying to get an internship this summer. He basically told me that no matter how good my grades are (and they could be better), I wouldn't be able to get into a big/good one because of Ursinus being pretty much unknown amongst the science community. Greeaat. But he gave me a site for the National Science Foundation, and I wrote down all of the schools that have high energy/particle physics internships this summer. A lot of them don't even have info up on them yet, though. I just hope I can get into a decent one. Dr. Riley also said that next summer I may be able to get an internship working with him, which would be really cool, as I like him and am comfortable with him, and it's close to home, etc., but it would still be best to get a really GOOD one for grad schools. So, that's up in the air.
AP Scores: I still haven't gotten my AP English Writing and Literature scores transferred. That'll cost like 30 bucks. Gak.
Home: My parents at it again like usual, with my sister often being treated like shit, which I hate. My mom also had her friend take our cat away to the pound. They are both so ridiculously immature. My grandmother is apparently leaving my grandfather in a few years, and her and my sister might get a house together. THAT should be interesting.
Skin: So, the little splotches on my skin spread with really crazy quickness in the first week of school. Googling, I found what it is - it's called Tinea Versicolor. Basically, it's a strange fungus that is found in EVERYONE, but in certain individuals under certain circumstances it reacts in a way so as to cause the little splotches I have on me. Specifically, it affects young adult males of 'darker ethnicity' (fuck you, Puerto Rican..), when it's humid and hot out. Yup. It's otherwise completely harmless. But I really have no time to schedule a doctor's appointment, and even if I get it treated, the splotches may persist for weeks.
Yearbook: Yearbook editor am I! It's starting to get really crazy - in particular because rather than using Adobe Pagemaker to make pages, we switched to an online program provided by the publisher. This is going to be good in the long run, since people can access it from their laptops at any time, but it's hard getting things set up. And our adviser is sort of disorganized and not as on top of things as she should be. So I have to make page templates and finish the 2006 Spring Supplement (which LAST year's editor should have done..), and organize meetings and all of that crap. I have a meeting this Wednesday at 1, and then I have to spend the rest of the night sorting out stuff and sending out emails. Then on the 20th there's another training meeting at EIGHT PM (I hate late meetings..). Crazy.
Math Physics: So far, the class has been really easy. I did both homeworks assigned so far in like 45 minutes total. One was turned in on Monday, and the other gets turned in on Friday. Now, to find somewhere to print my stuff....
Linear Algebra: Easy too, for the most part. I got a 10/10 on the first quiz, but a 7/10 on the second quiz, which made me sad. It's mostly because I made my definitions too vague. So, on the next quiz (one every friday!), I'm actually going to USE the little notecard we're allowed to write down just definitions. Last Thursday we had our first Lab, which me and Harry finished during the class period because we were already familiar with Maple; we're just prettifying it up and turning it in this Thursday. Today in class we did most of a worksheet, which is due on the 20th. And next Friday is the first exam! A lot of work, but it's all easy so far.
Latin Poetry: There's only 3 other people in this class, and only two are actually students (one is doing a grad work thing with the class). The teacher is crazy and awesome, and so far the only work has been translating. The hard part is that we only got up to Ch. 20 in our Latin book last year, and we're reading Ch. 30 - 32. Um... Right. So I've been looking like a fool every now and then, and spending WAY too much time translating things.
E&M Fields: This class is mostly a joke because the professor, the head of the physics department, is getting increasingly senile. He made the first exam way easier than it should have been. I got an 86, but would have had a 90 if it wasn't for the fact that he took off for calculations that we got wrong, that he didn't specifically point out were supposed to be that way. (It was a positive vs. a negative type thing, and he never worked out the equations all of the way on the board, to show that at the last step, they magically somehow become negative!). But other than that, a lot of reading and problem-solving in my 'free time.'
I think that's about all....