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deathbysnusnu fixed my iBook so I can finally get on the network. Yay!

This semester is going to be hell... between the two physics seminars and the math. Staying up till 3 or 4 in the morning, two nights in a row, is bad. It's almost as bad as the time last semester when we had all the hard problems in the partial diff eq packet due for Physics 50 and there were all these Griffiths quantum problems with horrible integrals and algebra for Physics 14. Only, this is just the first week of school.

Should I think about dropping Math 49? I like Bergstrand and think the class is pretty interesting. I do have 4 credits, between the 2 seminars, Shakespeare, advanced lab, and chorus. But I don't want to be only taking 3 academic classes.

I so need to get better with electronics... I lost a lot of time in lab trying to get just the simplest possible circuit (resistor in series with a DC voltage source) to behave, just because the multimeter I was using had blown a fuse. I still don't understand the phenomenon of loading completely. I need to do calculations and build/test my high-pass filter.

rose_garden got through a semester of 2 physics seminars and Real Analysis by pulling all-nighters every Thursday night before math problem sets were due. It looks like I'll be looking forward to doing the same thing to get my Modern Algebra homework done. How, in general, does one survive junior physics with one's sanity intact?

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The email from Elizabeth Macdonald about the ML breakfast noted that they will be going Continental TTh, to cut costs.

What with the loss of Greek and falafel bars, this is almost too much. One reason I wanted to be in ML was because of the ML breakfast.

It's not that I eat eggs and pancakes for breakfast all that often. It's more the principle and why the College is trying to cut costs on dining, and consequently skimping on the food.

If we, as a College community, came to a consensus about something, like "if we want a living wage or tuition not to go up more, we need to reduce the dining budget by such and such an amount," and this had some community discussion, I would not be upset. Rather, I'm upset that all these changes are essentially being forced down our throats.

Just like Appetizer Bar for dinner tonight. Blechh.