11/9/16: Calm in the Eye of the Weirding

1. 11/9/16
1. Scrounge around physics and chemistry loading docks for cardboard boxes, to use for the SPS Thanksgiving food drive.
2. StatMech is very interesting and confusing.
3. In SPS lounge, work on putting together and decorating boxes with professors’ names; print out a load of box labels.
4. Meeting features an officer of a club called the Astro Undergrad Engineering Group, who’d reached out to us last week. Not as much interest from people in it as I thought!
5. After the meeting, the first SPS pickup frisbee is a semi-success. Not enough people for a full game but those who come have fun (Jacob W, Sam, Kyle)
6. Run back home for a shower, do a little work, then off to Odegaard to do some physics tutoring.
7. Work with a young woman from the Honors section, lots of fun, she wants to know the interpretation of and context around everything. Get to explain Laplace’s equation, cuz it comes up randomly in her calc homework.
8. Work on E&M in Ode (which I’d solved the preceding night, now just writing it up.)
9. Go to advanced Swing lesson. We learn this killer new basic step (the kick, kick, rockstep) and how to use it for both Charleston and the 6-count basic.
10. Duck out a bit early and take a bus to Greenlake to meet, with CaC team, someone from a previous CaC class who’d worked on a similar idea. Only make it for the end of the meeting but Rachael has lots of good advice for us and seems excited to help. Will probably hit her up with some follow-up emails.
11. Head back to U-district, study for CaC test in Oasis with delicious taro bubble tea. Then go to team food, which is packed. Hang out with Alex, Diego, John, and the crew. Relax and have a good time. Get to talk with Savanna a bit as well.
12. Go to Paccar and ensconce myself in a team room, finish E&M. Question my understanding of method of images over a facepalm-like minus sign neglection.
13. Return to 2104, study more for CaC test, hand over hw to Brandon, help Xin figure out where he went wrong on a stats question, etc. Write this journal and hit the hay!