Choices...

[meanfreepath]

General Relativity at Bryn Mawr (Matlin) - 0830 TTH plus recitation

Solid State at Haverford (Smith) - 1030 MWF plus recitation

Computational Physics at Swat (Amy Bug) - Tuesday afternoon or evening

I know we had our conversation, sildra, but I still think GR's pretty cool. If it weren't at 8:30... Computational Physics seems less and less appealing, although it's certainly useful and worth knowing about.

Comments

[deaminerva.livejournal.com]

As fascinating as GR is, you'll be hating yourself for signing up for the class at 8:30am midway through the semester when you're pulling late nights (as per usual) and you have to get up extra early for the damned shuttle to Bryn Mawr.

Solid State looks cool. I mean, I don't really understand what the title means, but it sounds cool. :)

Good luck with your decisions...I am currently trying to decide whether it's really worth it for me to take CS 21.

[sildra.livejournal.com]

Do you know how to code, and are you planning to go to grad school? If you're planning to go to grad school in astronomy or physics, you will probably be expected to already have programming experience of some sort. Not very much, mind you--if you actually managed to learn anything in Physics 50 lab that should be enough--but enough to pick up whatever language your advisor uses and do stuff with it.

So if CS 21 is going to be your first real programming experience, it's worth it. If you already have programming experience from elsewhere, it's not worth it. And if you're not planning to go to grad school... well, it looks good on a resume, I guess, but really there's not that much that you learn there that you couldn't learn on your own if forced to, as long as you have a little bit of coding experience already (and if you do, the first several weeks of the class will be incredibly boring, anyway).

[obcordate.livejournal.com]

Classes earlier in the day usually suck not only because you have to wake up early, but because everyone else does too. You can feel the weariness in the air.

[nightengalesknd.livejournal.com]

Completely unrelated but seemed like a good way to reach you since I will not be on IM until after my test Friday:

I plan to be at the Folk Sing on Saturday. Thank heavens at least Swat is still one place Septa will allow me.

[sildra.livejournal.com]

Since what you said there is a bit misleading, I'll repeat what I actually said to you.

What I said was that GR is a lot of horrible math leading to a few interesting results. Given that you've never taken it, you've only heard about the results, which I fully admit are interesting.