I gave my presentation on Friday, and it went so much better than I thought it would. Wagner had me panicked at 11pm the night before when my test-run with him went horribly. Fortunately it inspired me to make transparencies, which finally forced me to organize my thoughts coherently. It was on a topic I always kinda liked (the Klein-Gordon ( Read more... )

A student walked past me when I was sitting outside the physics building waiting for Titus. She slowed down in front of a large flowering shrub, and spent a minute or two inspecting it. Finally she picked a flower and walked off towards the parking lot, twirling it in her hand ( Read more... )

One kid in my lab has taken to signing his name "Ernasty" in the class data tables, and recorded the following qualitative observations on his last lab: "The ball flies gracefully through the air, landing swiftly on the target with the bounce of an exuberant 10 year old girl." I think he's testing his boundaries.

I'm taking a History of the Scientific Revolution course from a pretentious ignorant asshat.

Some quotes from today's lecture:

While talking about ghosts, UFOs, etc:
I don't use the word pseudoscience. Pseudoscience is hard to find.

While talking about the morality of cloning:
My clone's a person? What does that mean? My cat's a person.On stream ( Read more... )

I don't participate in enough memes ( Read more... )

I forgot to mention: I passed the comps at the Master's level.

Yay for being done. With that part.

I'm a no-good reputation-ruining dirty gossip, but I had to share ( Read more... )

I am sick.

I got T.A. of the year. And I only taught one lab (everyone else had 6 this year)! Hopefully this means they'll let me T.A. this summer. Hooray!

Next week I'm supposed to teach an intro physics lab in which the students learn that the coefficients of static and kinetic friction are a function of mass.

I'm going to cry.