write major on diploma?

[nibot]

There is a petition going around to have the College of Engineering print our major on our degrees. Currently they just say "College of Engineering". I wrote to the Engineering Joint Council to say that I liked the diplomas just the way they are. If you care, you can let them know your opinion.

On another note, it turns out that David J. Griffiths has published a second edition of his quantum mechanics textbook! It's not on amazon.com, it's not on his web page, but it's in our student book store, and the colophon says "Copyright 2005". It's blue now.

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[heike.livejournal.com]

I wonder how the qunatum book differs.
I think it's cool that my cat is on the cover.

I wonder if my Santa Cruz diploma says on it. It was mailed to my parents' house. They put in it a drawer for safe keeping, and when I came home for Christmas they had forgotten which drawer it was in, so I didn't actually get it for another year. Then I put it somewhere for safe keeping. It's in some box now. Maybe now that I'll have two I'll be pretentious and frame both of them in one big frame and hang them on my wall. :p

[nibot.livejournal.com]

You have a UCSC diploma? How does that work?

[heike.livejournal.com]

I graduated from UCSC in 2000 with a double major in Art and Art History. I know the diploma mentions Kresge College, as Santa Cruz has a residential college system. (All students are affiliated with a college regardless of whether they live off campus or not. The colleges are not related to academic departments.) Santa Cruz mailed diplomas out about 6 weeks after graduation. The graduations are held by the resdiential colleges. Ours was on the East Field, overlooking Monterey Bay. This year I can go to a university wide graduation in the ESA (basketball/hockey staidum), and the physics graduation is in a lecture hall.

[nibot.livejournal.com]

And then you started studying Physics at NC State?

Pretty impressive — you're slightly less than three years older than me, but you have two college educations!

[heike.livejournal.com]

Actually, I started my physics degree there, switched to a double major with art, after two years dropped the physics and added art history. I took 5 years to graduate from Santa Cruz. Then I took a year off, and enrolled at State to finished up the physics degree. All told, I have 8 years of undergrad studies and two bachelors degrees.
The funny thing is I was one class away from a math minor, and one from a German minor (although that is a joke, a native German speaker getting a German degree). So I could have really loaded my degrees with majors and minors.

[eigenvalue.livejournal.com]

Are next semester's books already in the bookstore?
(salivates)

[nibot.livejournal.com]

Actually, in a burst of incredible lameness, only the summer session books are shelved in Ned's and the Evil Corporate stores. I went after a copy of Ashcroft and Mermin (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/0030839939) but had to leave disappointed.