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Optics seminar today was pretty good. Frank's seminar style is interesting... not quite like any other prof I've had. I have at least ceased to vehemently dislike optics, as I did last spring when I had to help Physics 4 people with optics in clinic and I hadn't studied optics since high school. Still, I think the stuff we'll get to at the end of the term will be more interesting: a more thorough treatment of the interaction of light with atoms and the quantization of the electromagnetic field, with its elegant creation and annihilation operators.

Somehow I need to get myself motivated to focus on my research/thesis writing/Sigma Xi poster.