5/3/16

1. 5/3/16
1. Quick recap for today:
2. Tutoring! Met in research commons, another person who was really roughly on top of their stuff, but struggled with concepts.
3. Met physics advisor for traditional spring advising, worked to thrash out a schedule. Looks like everything is actually going to work (!). Still hard to believe. The dude--really nice older fellow, Prof. Van Dyck--told me somewhat jocularly I’d overconstrained the problem, so my solution was unstable. But right now it holds :D
4. Took more magnetic field measurements with Ronaldo, discussed simulation and data fitting. Our simulation matches experiment along one axis, but along another there seems to be systematic offset, so we took more careful measurements.
5. Got a bit of exercise in McMahon courts, then to Haggett, did Systems exercise.
6. Glee! Great rehearsal--really felt like I was singing well. I was in this strange confident, buoyant mood for some reason.
7. Carried over to dinner in Haggett lounge + floor tradition Pictionary. Helped some floormates with physics.
8. Did accting homework and practice exam.
9. Started working on a presentation about a small piece of Prof. Garcia’s experiment, the Multi-Wire Proportional Chamber, to give at the group meeting Thursday. Decided to have fun with it, made a goofy overview slide, then got down to real work and started reading the thesis.