This week ended with the fact the subletter was honest and told the landlord that his dog was 55 lbs. The limit is 40 lbs, although I know I’ve seen bigger dogs around (bull dogs, for starters). So I’m probably not moving, unless I can find a subletter by 5:30 today. I kind of doubt [...]

Recently, life has been a little difficult for me for a variety of reasons that I don’t care to air in public. I’ve contacted my undergraduate physics department. Due to the nature of the school, I happen to be very close to them. We all were in that department, since it is tiny. It was [...]

It looks like we got it!! I wasn’t really worried, since I have good credit, but you never know. I did find (at least it looks like it) a subletter, so let’s hope that he pulls through and that all goes as planned. Now just to get through this week. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend [...]

Part of what’s recommended for prospective physics graduate students is to contact schools and specific faculty. It’s a combination of networking and feeling out whether one is really a good fit. I’m not sure if this is exclusive to physics or schools in the US or both, but I’ve always received this tidbit of advice. [...]

Today I took another day off. I needed it, considering after the labs from hell starting on Wednesday of the last week, I was also doing a take home midterm in EM, took my general GRE (I did better on it than I originally had), and finishing up homework on which I had an extension. [...]

I have to hand it to the electronics kids; they were in good spirits this week about lab, even though it looked daunting (It wasn’t time consuming, though). I really respect that they’re so willing to learn something they won’t really use in their lives and that they’re not being jerks about it; sometimes, I [...]

I think that my fiancee and I have found an apartment to move into together! While my current place is fine, he doesn’t like having carpet (I can’t blame him; it is a pain) and wishes that we had a bigger kitchen. The new place is a bit cheaper and beautiful. It’ll be crazy moving [...]

Aida Nour, for those of you unfamiliar, is an Egyptian dancer who was part of Mahmoud Reda’s dance troupe. The significance of that is they were the group that researched Egyptian folk dances and theatricized them. Below is a video of Aida Nour. Workshops are an interesting experience, because you see parred down versions of [...]

Even with all on my plate this weekend, going to the Aida Nour show and the workshop today was so worth it. You know you’re too tired and overworked when you can’t speak properly and combine names oddly; I keep calling Matlab/Mathematica Matlabica, and I’m not doing it to be funny. Firstly the Aida Nour [...]

Yesterday was the hardest day (I hope, I really hope) that I will have this quarter. I TA Modern physics labs by myself. The spectrometers (who knows what went wrong with them; they should be as painfully simple as plugging in a USB cord and screwing some stuff in) were still being angry. To quote [...]