Waiting for a Solution

Presently I am sitting next to my lab partner watching a solution stir itself. It reminds me how far technology has come, making us almost irrelevant in our own experiments. It's very stirring. But I'm going stir-crazy waiting for the stirring to end, so I guess I shall blog now.

Grace Hopper was good fun, as I said before...I got lots of free swag and new knowledge and ideas about places to work this summer. Honestly, I think I'm going to do Summer Research at Mudd if I can help it, but it's good to look at other options for internships-y things, I suppose.

This week has been a mite bit hectic, what with the grading of some midterms, the presence of others and the shadow of the impending Physics and Chem midterms. We're almost done with Special Relativity and about to move on to Quantum Mechanics in Physics, and as for Chemistry...I really don't care for thermodynamics. At all. So I'm grateful to be moving to structure as opposed to energetics. Goodness me, the core has a lot of half-semester subjects in classes!

As far as student life, next week is Coming Out Week at the Claremont Colleges. It should be super-fun...we're painting a mural and doing cool events-y stuff and what have you. I'm going to a meeting tonight about that hopefully, and then attempting to tackle a desperately large amount of Linear Algebra. It is a small miracle that I've made it through the homework this week in spite of missing two days of class, though arguably the fault is my own that it piled up so much. But the week is almost over, and I'm presently very happy with classes and such. And my solution is done being stirred.