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May. 26th, 2006 01:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meanfreepath... in five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes, how do you measure, measure a year?
Perhaps one of the best measures of an academic year, at least, is the wastepaper that you throw out at the end of it. Drafts of my thesis, with comments and corrections penned in by Doc and Chris. Photocopies of graduate school applications, that I no longer need to keep. Solutions to Physics 8 and Physics 14 homeworks that I graded. Travel brochures for Madison, Wisconsin. Drafts of a 115 presentation on Schrodinger cat states. Random announcements from the Deans' Office. An invitation list for my birthday party last fall.
And then, too, the things you don't throw out. Succombing to one of my favorite packing procrastination techniques: reading articles in magazines that I unearth that I never had time to read when I got them. Thus, much time was spent this evening perusing back issues of American Scientist and Physics Today, the magazines of Sigma Xi and the APS.
Tomorrow: more packing. I haven't even started picking up stuff in my room, and parts of my floor are so dusty that I must sweep it before![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
areyououtthere comes for graduation. But there'll be lunch at Lacroix with friends, hanging out with nightengalesknd, and the physics reception too.
Perhaps one of the best measures of an academic year, at least, is the wastepaper that you throw out at the end of it. Drafts of my thesis, with comments and corrections penned in by Doc and Chris. Photocopies of graduate school applications, that I no longer need to keep. Solutions to Physics 8 and Physics 14 homeworks that I graded. Travel brochures for Madison, Wisconsin. Drafts of a 115 presentation on Schrodinger cat states. Random announcements from the Deans' Office. An invitation list for my birthday party last fall.
And then, too, the things you don't throw out. Succombing to one of my favorite packing procrastination techniques: reading articles in magazines that I unearth that I never had time to read when I got them. Thus, much time was spent this evening perusing back issues of American Scientist and Physics Today, the magazines of Sigma Xi and the APS.
Tomorrow: more packing. I haven't even started picking up stuff in my room, and parts of my floor are so dusty that I must sweep it before
areyououtthere comes for graduation. But there'll be lunch at Lacroix with friends, hanging out with nightengalesknd, and the physics reception too.
