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Hmm.
Somehow I have to put together a poster on my CO3 project before I leave for Spring Break. Thought I'd get a start on it tonight, but there are so many little details that there's no way I could finish it by tomorrow.
Which means I'm banking on someone from lab being around on Sunday; if so, I get my poster printed free. If not, there goes $60-$100 if I have to do it at Kinko's.
I need the poster because the people in charge of the US/France REU are having us present our previous or current research at the French Embassy in a little over a week. Ayayay. But it's kinda fun, too.
The Schedule of Classes for the Fall semester came out today!! The arrival of the schedule is always a momentous occassion for me, since it gives me a chance to forget about the current semester and look ahead. The classes I need don't conflict, which is always super, and most of the ones I want are nonconflicting as well. The definites for next fall are:
PHYS 304 - Mechanics (Hamiltonian and Lagrangian Mechanics)
PHYS 408a - Electricity & Magnetism (upper-division version)
CHEM 544 - Quantum Chemistry (continuation of CHEM430b)
MATH 574 - Applied Matrix Analysis
The maybes are: (I'll have to choose one of these)
MATH 570 - Methods of Applied Mathematics
MATH 440 - Topology
MATH 407 - Probability Theory
MATH 445 - Mathematics of Physics and Engineering II
MATH 458 - Numerical Methods
CSCI 105 - Object-Oriented Programming
Topology would be ideal, but it conflicts with PHYS408a. I honestly didn't expect to have so many math courses on my wish list . . . but as I looked at other courses in other departments, I just realized how incompatible they would be with a schedule that includes a fair amount of time devoted to research. Like jazz; I wouldn't have time to practice, so a jazz course would be pretty useless. Same goes for any music course. None of the linguistics courses fit my schedule, so that pretty much leaves the math. Which is fine by me.
The 500-level classes are graduate courses . . . I don't know how different that really makes them (my impression is that it makes little difference), but maybe it'll give me a taste for what's in store.
The more I realize how many math courses out there I still want to take, the more I wonder how I'm going to handle putting math coursework aside when grad school rolls around. Maybe I should look into some applied math programs while I'm on the hunt for theoretical chemistry programs. Can never be sure about these things.
Somehow I have to put together a poster on my CO3 project before I leave for Spring Break. Thought I'd get a start on it tonight, but there are so many little details that there's no way I could finish it by tomorrow.
Which means I'm banking on someone from lab being around on Sunday; if so, I get my poster printed free. If not, there goes $60-$100 if I have to do it at Kinko's.
I need the poster because the people in charge of the US/France REU are having us present our previous or current research at the French Embassy in a little over a week. Ayayay. But it's kinda fun, too.
The Schedule of Classes for the Fall semester came out today!! The arrival of the schedule is always a momentous occassion for me, since it gives me a chance to forget about the current semester and look ahead. The classes I need don't conflict, which is always super, and most of the ones I want are nonconflicting as well. The definites for next fall are:
PHYS 304 - Mechanics (Hamiltonian and Lagrangian Mechanics)
PHYS 408a - Electricity & Magnetism (upper-division version)
CHEM 544 - Quantum Chemistry (continuation of CHEM430b)
MATH 574 - Applied Matrix Analysis
The maybes are: (I'll have to choose one of these)
MATH 570 - Methods of Applied Mathematics
MATH 440 - Topology
MATH 407 - Probability Theory
MATH 445 - Mathematics of Physics and Engineering II
MATH 458 - Numerical Methods
CSCI 105 - Object-Oriented Programming
Topology would be ideal, but it conflicts with PHYS408a. I honestly didn't expect to have so many math courses on my wish list . . . but as I looked at other courses in other departments, I just realized how incompatible they would be with a schedule that includes a fair amount of time devoted to research. Like jazz; I wouldn't have time to practice, so a jazz course would be pretty useless. Same goes for any music course. None of the linguistics courses fit my schedule, so that pretty much leaves the math. Which is fine by me.
The 500-level classes are graduate courses . . . I don't know how different that really makes them (my impression is that it makes little difference), but maybe it'll give me a taste for what's in store.
The more I realize how many math courses out there I still want to take, the more I wonder how I'm going to handle putting math coursework aside when grad school rolls around. Maybe I should look into some applied math programs while I'm on the hunt for theoretical chemistry programs. Can never be sure about these things.