Graduate School @ MindSay

This cataloging & classification class is about to get me.  It's not quite 8 am on a Saturday morning and I'm about to start on the next to last assignment, which includes a 1.5 to 2 page (single spaced) commentary, and which will take something like 8 or 10 hours to finish.  After this, there's one more assignment (and we have been warned that they get progressively more difficult), 4 more classes (3 hours each), and of course the 8-10 page (single spaced) literature review/research paper to go, all in the next 5 weeks.

*sigh* and there will rise up such a shout and cheer from southeast Tennessee as has seldom been heard in these parts, when I'm through with this class.  There's a reason that most people finish college when they're younger.  I know this would not have seemed nearly as difficult if I had gone straight from college graduation to grad school and been done by the time I was 24.  I just know it.

Bookworm is more than ready to devote her evenings and weekends to something else, such as reading for PLEASURE.

Alright. Anybody who actually keeps in touch with me (basically, just Carly) would know that I was set to graduate high school on 27th September. Anybody who bothers to read the dates on these entries would also know that this means I have graduated from high school.

 

Honestly, right now it doesn't seem like it's all that it's cracked up to be. Our graduation ceremony was...most unemotional. I cried all the way through it, and so did my friend Raghad. But we're a pair of pansies. Hardly anybody cried! It was strange...

 

Maybe it just doesn't feel like we've graduated because we haven't done our exams yet. See, it still hasn't hit me that we don't need to go to school anymore. It's odd, to say the least. I just feel...a little empty, that's all.

 

Well...shout-outs to the class of '007!! Love you all!! I know none of them are reading this, but that hardly matters...

 

Newest graphic that I've created:

 

 

It looks best with a white background. And I know she doesn't look dead - I turned her skin blue, but it's the first time that I've ever done it so bare with me. Anyway, l8r all.

Is a Bachelors Degree just a fancy highschool diploma?
I guess it depends on the type of Bachelors you've earned.
I guess nowadays in order to get ahead you would need to earn a Masters Degree....
However, not being much of a fan of school and still dreadfully paying back a student loan, I'm beginning to see that this is true.
I guess it also depends if there is a need for your chosen career in your city of residence.
I'm beginning to feel the limitations of my degree...
Also having friends and family members bring this to my attention by either beginning or graduating from Graduate school doesn't help either....
I can no longer live in denial and thus have began looking into Graduate Schools....yuck!
Does anyone else echo this sentiment...that a Bachelors Degree is just a fancy highschool diploma....if so let me know...either way let me know what you all think?
Peace Out.

Solid State Physics: Homework #3, problem #3.

3) Vibrations of a square lattice.
Famous Kittel problem.

You're laughing already, but I'm comfortable so far. I find Kittel's book and open it to the chapter on lattice vibrations. There are seven problems. None of these involve square lattices. Homework assignments in graduate school may always be made more challenging by forcing you to supply the right question as well as the right answer.

Presently scouring the chapter itself (I already read it once, earlier.) for the "famous" problem. If I don't find it, I shall turn to the power of Google and Wikipedia to figure out the mystery. If none of these work, I will ask in class tomorrow. So there.

Andy