Monday was OK. Electrodynamics started without any mercy, jumping right into waveguides calculations. Pretty intense. This is just what I wanted to test my masochistic change from coffee to tea.
A very unscientific feeling tells me that coffee is bad for me. I spent the week before classes started at Merideth's and there was no coffee there. So I drank tea. And I felt different, better. So now I am drinking tea instead. I bought a box of green teas. On Thursday the I had a ginseng tea, which I suppose did not had that much caffeine. I got a massive headache by the afternoon. Yesterday I bought some regular black tea, hopefully this will work.
Tuesday I had the other two classes, Quantum and Statistical Mechanics. In Quantum we had a review of to much stuff, it got pretty boring, pretty fast. In Statistical Mechanics, the professor talked about thermodynamics. Now I had a pretty good thermal physics class in the RUM, but it was a long time ago. Time just flies! So I have to review my thermo... I also had my first TAing meeting on Tuesday afternoon. It was pretty boring, since it is the type where all the course staff comes, so they focus more on the professors. I got to pick my lab sections: last fall I had sections L06 and L08, so this semester I went with the odd ones, L03 and L05. This time I am going to TA for four hours straight! It is going to be nasty, and nasty to grade, but I think I shall survive.
On Wednesday I got to pick my graduate seminar topic! Nobody wanted one of the first slots, on February 14. So I thought to myself, I can just get this over early! So I signed up for the first day, and I got to pick my topic first: The search for supersymmetry. It is going to be awesome.
The rest of the week was alright. Lots of procrastination, to much in fact. Friday was the COLDEST day ever. It felt like -10 degrees Fahrenheit. It was horrible. Today I went to the post office and applied for a passport. Oh yeah, passports are expensive!
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