1. UW
Update Sunday Jan. 05: Quarter 2, Day 0
a. Arrived
in the dorm around 9:00 pm. Unpacked some stuff, then went to hang out in the
lounge. Had good conversation with Sasha, Nicolas, Alex.
b. Returned
to the room and put away remaining stuff. Stopped in my tracks and dropped my
apple bags when I realized the fridge shelves were dripping with water. The raw
cooling element, as far as I could tell, was frosting up with moisture, then
the frost was falling into a tray where it melted. This tray eventually
overflowed. On inspecting and drying the fridge, I realized how disgusting it
was (many stains from before its purchase). I quixotically scrubbed down the
fridge, defrosting the cooling element by sponging on hot water.
c. Briefly
checked physics website.
d. Went
to bed.
2. UW
Update Monday Jan. 05: Quarter 2, Day 1
a. Woke
up bright and early (at 8:45 J)
Ate a delicious onion bagel shipped from Bham on the walk to physics. We
discussed basic electrostatics, then Brandon and I walked to the Bookstore to
buy the only things we couldn’t get online: UW-specific lab manuals. I threw in
some lead and extra scantrons for good measure.
b. Walked
back to the dorm and attended to those cleaning tasks I hadn’t gotten to
yesterday. I swept the floor, filled my pencils with lead. My big win for today
was removing the broken eraser from my favorite pencil using a piece of unwound
notebook wire (hanger wire was too big)
d. Attended
a Lunchbox Seminar. This time the speaker was a professor applying to work at
the UW, so we were supposed to evaluate him. I haven’t gotten the evaluation
out. He talked about low-dimensional materials, a hot topic in physics.
Graphene has the fascinating but obscure property that electron momentum is
linearly related to bond energy, which gives it odd conductive properties.
e. Went
to my teaching class. Should be a fun class! The professor, Frances McCue,
pointed out to us that she had to exemplify what she taught—a tall order—but
she carried it off well. We drafted class discussion standards, did an exercise
where we described a moment of learning (I made the poor choice of the moment
when I got why e^(i*theta) = cos theta + i sin theta, which was hard to
describe J)
f. Ate
lunch. Got there too late to eat Motosurf, so joined Sarang in the Subway line.
Got a big sandwich and read assignment for teaching class.
g. Nobody
was in the SPS for Go club, so I went to chess club. Gaaah—I just don’t know if
that game grabs me anymore. Too much history, in a way.
h. Returned
to the dorm, studied for a bit, then headed off to play Badminton. The courts
were stuffed, so I played basketball for a while and came back. Met Sarang and
played a few good games. Made first tentative steps towards organizing lunch
group by asking Sarang about his lunch habits and positing the most basic idea
of a lunch group. He was amenable.
i.
Walked back to the dorm, ate a peanut butter
banana in the lounge, showered, and wrote this log. Went to bed.
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