grad school: board work

[nibot]

The other day, Sarah drew this graph on the board. I know it's a little hard to read in the photo, but here are the pertinent details: it's titled "My Life's Happiness," and you'll notice that the Y-axis is labelled "happiness", as measured in the units of "giddies." Along the X-axis we have "grade school," "jr. high," "high school," "college," and, finally, accompanied by a marked plunge in the ordinate, "grad school."


I am in awe of the handwriting of the professor (Eberly?) who teaches the lecture preceeding my E&M course. Look at those curly script E's—I've been working on those for years! This photo is of only one panel out of three or four, which, taken together, are a masterpiece to behold. Not only is the handwriting so pretty, but you can almost understand the whole lecture from a glance at the board. Then, sadly, they are erased to make room for several boards full of non-sequitir scrawled heiroglyphics...

Comments

[forvrkate.livejournal.com]

My graph is her graph inverted. Happiness gone way up since beginning of graduate school.

conservation of happiness

[nibot.livejournal.com]

ah, so it's your fault!

Drawn like Lisa Simpson

[limegreensneaks.livejournal.com]

You should remind your friend that Lisa Simpson also made such a graph in the episode where Homer gets the crayon removed from his brain showing that happiness is inversely proportional to intelligence. "I made a graph" she tells him. "I make a lot of graphs"

[lert.livejournal.com]

I was a lot happier in grade school than that chart indicates.
Also, yeah, that IS Eberly! He has very nice handwriting, but has yet to discover lowercase letters. We just got our first homework assignments, and it was...interesting to have all-caps comments (in red, of course.) "YOU'RE MISSING THE POINT."

YOUR SOLUTION NEEDS MORE COWBELL.

[vyncentvega.livejournal.com]

lol.

[nibot.livejournal.com]

lert!

[lert.livejournal.com]

nibot!

[vyncentvega.livejournal.com]

Dude, my comment didn't get a response. No fairs!

[vortexshedding.livejournal.com]

your e&m class looks just like my coastal engineering classes

oh the days of waves were good

[vyncentvega.livejournal.com]

That first picture makes me want to get to know the first years.

[vyncentvega.livejournal.com]

And by "get to know" I quite possibly mean "date".

[vyncentvega.livejournal.com]

But not, you know, all at the same time.

[vyncentvega.livejournal.com]

No! Bad Kris! No commenting while drunk!

[nibot.livejournal.com]

Haha--sorry, Kris, I think it's too late to retract the comment.

I'll try to make an update while drunk in the near future--then we'll all be even, right (ha!)?

[shamster.livejournal.com]

On the 1-10 scale of prettiness, that handwriting lands at a solid 7. This, of course, only related to my own lecturers and officemates. I've got a pretty badass Xi, though. And I've been perfecting my zeta.

Aren't the squirly E's... epsilons?

This lecture looks strangely familiar.

Eberly

[mookieghana.livejournal.com]

That definately looks like Eberly's handwriting. I had him Freshman year and that was probably the best Physics course I ever took. He's a king.