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[meanfreepath]

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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[obcordate.livejournal.com]

Staying up till 3 or 4 in the morning is pretty bad. I mean, I did that like every day of the last two semesters. I'd say it really screwed me up.

At least made getting up at 8 to get to work somewhat more difficult.

Of course, I wasn't up at such a time because I was doing differential equations. I was mostly cooking, drinking, eating, watching people do drugs and act stupid, philosophizing, etc. all of which are generally less stressful activities.

[rose_garden.livejournal.com]

I also wasn't as concientious about my Physics homework as I would like to be, and I probably wasn't a very good partner to my CS45 partner that semester. It was an academically tough semester. It was probably also my lowest-average-grade semester, though I haven't checked on that.

If I were to go back and do it differently? Hmm... Maybe I would have taken something other than CS45 (I can say that now that I've dropped the CS major) and I might have taken E72A a different semester.

How one gets through junior physics with one's sanity intact:

[sildra.livejournal.com]

One makes a schedule, especially of when one will and won't socialize. Like, noon-1:30pm, go to SWIL meeting, 1:30 pm until finished, read Griffiths, afterwards dinner and hanging out, and then two hours of non-physics homework before bed. 11:00 am-5:45 pm Sunday: start homework 112 problem set, 5:45-7:00 pm, go to Sharples, socialize with SWIL, 7:00pm-midnight finish 112 problem set, midnight-8:30 am, sleep, etc.. At least, that was my schedule. I got all my work done on time, and only felt at all overwhelmed around exams. Although I think I'm different from most people in that if I have 7:00pm-midnight scheduled for working on a problem set, I might take one five minute break for a drink of water in the middle, but otherwise I work steadily.

But one of the things that really kept me saner than most (especially later, in my hellish 115 seminar) was that I got at least seven hours of sleep every school night and 8-10 hours every weekend night.