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Tomorrow is the first day of classes at LSU ("Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College"!). Hopefully this is my last First Day of School as a student (it's been long enough!), but I am looking forward to it. I was done with courses at Rochester, but LSU wants me to take a few more. I'm taking:

Physics 7242	Quantum Mechanics II	A. Ravi P. Rau	MWF 10:40-11:30
Physics 7336	General Relativity	Jorge Pullin	MWF 17:10-18:00
Physics 9000	Doctoral research	Gaby González	all the time

Hopefully we can change the time of the GR lecture—the 5pm time is incompatible with me going out to the LIGO observatory. Everything's off to a pretty slow start, though; Rau has already cancelled what would otherwise be the first meeting, and Jorge has cancelled the subsequent three meetings of his course. I guess that's fine: I have to prepare for my candidacy exam here at LSU.

Sorry they aren't more exciting courses! The QM just sounds tedious, but I think GR will be fun.

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[vortexshedding.livejournal.com]

i am just taking another "independent study" this semester so no classroom hours.

i will be back in the classroom in fall 2009. ugh

[shephi.livejournal.com]

yay!

and you are using Sean Carroll's notes. I'm a big fan. I'm preparing for my GR oral exam this month. ugh.

[furzicle.livejournal.com]

I read all the way through Jorge's resume/web page and had already decided he sounded like a cool character before I realized that he is Gaby's husband. He sounds very interesting!