The end is approaching!

The world is not ending! On the contrary is getting better.

What is approaching is the end of the semester! Eeee! The first semester of graduate school. It was something to me, something very, very frustrating. But I have learned a lot. Sadly I have learned the hard way, by committing crucial mistakes in homeworks and bad judgments.  Some mistake include algebra and arithmetic mistakes ;-) . Other were volunteering to help type the string theory lecture notes with three core course, two lab sections, a seminar and a colloquium in my schedule. Oh well!

Tomorrow is my last "real" midterm. It is on Classical Mechanics: couple oscillations, 2-d motion including central forces and scattering, rigid bodies and rotations. Fun, fun! I have not studied that much, meaning that i have re-read the lecture notes and homework model solutions, but besides that not much. I think I could have prepare more, but I just want to get over with. A soft voice in the back of my head says Oh Mel! If you really want to get over with this, you should do better so you need not repeat the courses and waste more time! That might be true. But it is to late for that. I feel prepared (just like I felt the night before the Electrodynamics second midterm), and I hope I can at least understand the problems and work a great part of them in the test (unlike the Electrodynamics second midterm :-(). Then I will be relatively free, with some homeworks due on the week after Thanksgiving. I guess the "final" exam for Quantum Mechanics is on the last week of classes. I am really happy it is going to be a midterm-like test. :-)