aaah the physics it hurts me
E&M is scary, evil stuff. I don't like it a lot. Or even a little. Earlier today I thought I understood something... but I was wrong. We have a test next week. It was originally supposed to be Monday but from the sound of things it's probably going to be moved to Wednesday. That's a slight relief with the zone meeting coming up this weekend, but I can't shake this gut feeling that there will be an anxiety attack sometime in the next few days.
In other news, I'm thinking about hanging around for one more semester. Still haven't gotten around to figuring out all the graduation shit, and if I don't have a job offer, I really have nothing better to do. I'd like to move to Portland or Salem and take some classes at a CC or something, but whatever, take it in stride. Still have friends here, after all. (They say you don't have to be enrolled in the semester you "officially" graduate in, so it's not like I'm frakked if I don't submit my paperwork for this semester) At some point, I'll go talk to Dr. Eastwood about the feasibility of getting something with the word "astronomy" tacked on to my diploma. She's a pretty cool lady. If nothing else, maybe she'll make me feel better about all the freaking out.
So remember how in first grade, they teach you that adding zero to any number doesn't change it? In almost all observable cases, that argument holds true until you hit your final semester of undergraduate physics. I'm a bit hazy on the details, especially because it's E&M, but near as I can figure, we're taking a vector potential and making it into a different vector potential by adding a term that goes to zero. Yes, I'm serious. We're doing something by not really doing something. Oh, physics. You hurt me.
In other news, I'm thinking about hanging around for one more semester. Still haven't gotten around to figuring out all the graduation shit, and if I don't have a job offer, I really have nothing better to do. I'd like to move to Portland or Salem and take some classes at a CC or something, but whatever, take it in stride. Still have friends here, after all. (They say you don't have to be enrolled in the semester you "officially" graduate in, so it's not like I'm frakked if I don't submit my paperwork for this semester) At some point, I'll go talk to Dr. Eastwood about the feasibility of getting something with the word "astronomy" tacked on to my diploma. She's a pretty cool lady. If nothing else, maybe she'll make me feel better about all the freaking out.
So remember how in first grade, they teach you that adding zero to any number doesn't change it? In almost all observable cases, that argument holds true until you hit your final semester of undergraduate physics. I'm a bit hazy on the details, especially because it's E&M, but near as I can figure, we're taking a vector potential and making it into a different vector potential by adding a term that goes to zero. Yes, I'm serious. We're doing something by not really doing something. Oh, physics. You hurt me.