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Feb. 6th, 2004 12:19 am07:30 alarm clock
07:50 climb out of bed
08:00 out the door
08:17 in class - Solid State Physics in 433 Latimer. This building is the Chemistry complex and it's kind of neat because there's this big ramp that goes swoops down from Piedmont (does that mean "foot hill" in some language?) into the building. I walk in, past the chemistry stockroom where the chem students buy their chemicals, go in the elevator up to the fourth floor. Michelle is in my class. The professor is Italian.
09:15 We're still talking about crystal lattices. It's all stuff I've picked up over the last few years while working for microscopists. We do the Ewald Sphere and it's the standard, non-intuitive explanation. I finally figure out how changing the orientation of the crystal scoops out a bigger sphere in fourier space.
Then we start talking about how atoms in a crystal can be modelled as being held in place with springs.
09:30 Class is over. In the elevator we're gossiping about the course but then the professor gets in the elevator too so we stop talking about the lecture. She sees my nametag, which says "Nicky Hamilton," and asks if that's my name. I say "no, it's my alias."
09:45 back at Wilde, I walk up to Prospect to change the parking permit on my car.
Duck into Bancroft Cafe for a bagel. Jenny Jo is there. We read the Daily Cal. Seems that this year's batch of Fullbright applicants from Berkeley were all DQ'd 'cause a FedEx truck missed a pickup.
11:00 Get to work. Allison's still at coffee, and gives me some tips on how to get UC Berkeley or the Department of Energy to pay my tuition.
13:00 Go to lunch with Kristine. I haven't seen her for a year — we met in the obnoxious Scandinavian R5B course taught by the crazy (in a good way) Michael Coleman, she taking it so she would be eligible to study abroad, and I taking it to fulfill the requirements for a math degree through L and S. Then she left for Chile, but after one semester there, deciding that the academic program was completely bogus, the bailed and moved to Argentina where she worked for the Argentinian government. Then she flew to Germany for a trans-European roadtrip down to Croatia.
14:00 Some more work.
15:30 It's time for math tea!
07:50 climb out of bed
08:00 out the door
08:17 in class - Solid State Physics in 433 Latimer. This building is the Chemistry complex and it's kind of neat because there's this big ramp that goes swoops down from Piedmont (does that mean "foot hill" in some language?) into the building. I walk in, past the chemistry stockroom where the chem students buy their chemicals, go in the elevator up to the fourth floor. Michelle is in my class. The professor is Italian.
09:15 We're still talking about crystal lattices. It's all stuff I've picked up over the last few years while working for microscopists. We do the Ewald Sphere and it's the standard, non-intuitive explanation. I finally figure out how changing the orientation of the crystal scoops out a bigger sphere in fourier space.
Then we start talking about how atoms in a crystal can be modelled as being held in place with springs.
09:30 Class is over. In the elevator we're gossiping about the course but then the professor gets in the elevator too so we stop talking about the lecture. She sees my nametag, which says "Nicky Hamilton," and asks if that's my name. I say "no, it's my alias."
09:45 back at Wilde, I walk up to Prospect to change the parking permit on my car.
Duck into Bancroft Cafe for a bagel. Jenny Jo is there. We read the Daily Cal. Seems that this year's batch of Fullbright applicants from Berkeley were all DQ'd 'cause a FedEx truck missed a pickup.
11:00 Get to work. Allison's still at coffee, and gives me some tips on how to get UC Berkeley or the Department of Energy to pay my tuition.
13:00 Go to lunch with Kristine. I haven't seen her for a year — we met in the obnoxious Scandinavian R5B course taught by the crazy (in a good way) Michael Coleman, she taking it so she would be eligible to study abroad, and I taking it to fulfill the requirements for a math degree through L and S. Then she left for Chile, but after one semester there, deciding that the academic program was completely bogus, the bailed and moved to Argentina where she worked for the Argentinian government. Then she flew to Germany for a trans-European roadtrip down to Croatia.
14:00 Some more work.
15:30 It's time for math tea!
