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Had my last exam, Statistical Thermodynamics this morning. It went well, as expected. So that's it. Degree in Experimental Physics, done. Exam stress, seeping away slowly. Starting to feel better. I'm a bit hungry, though. So now, instead of worrying about getting something to eat AND worrying about exams, I'm just worried about getting something to eat. Well, actually, I'm worrying about walking home in the rain to get something to eat, get my wallet which I forgot this morning, go in to the college bar to talk to my friends who will more than likely already be wasted, and wishing I was drinking too, in order to be able to communicate on the same level.
It still hasn't sunk in that I'm actually finished, after months of intensive studying. I can actually LIVE now. Like NORMAL PEOPLE. I can READ BOOKS. WALK AROUND AIMLESSLY without the exams hanging over me like an oppressive cloud. This will take some getting used to.
I think some very loud music is called for. ------------------ "If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen" Samuel Adams
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And pizza. Lots of pizza. And wings. Gotta have wings.
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'Statistical Thermodynamics'? 'Experimental Physics'? Me thinks me shall stick with the more simple subject of Business Administration. Far less taxing on the poor old brain.
Free? Erm, yeah sure you are. At least until you get a job - 8 hours a day with a bugger of a boss yellin' at ya. Not so free and fun.
Mmm . . . pizza! (Drools)
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Actually, that's what the "But...for how long?" was about. I've already got a job with Compaq starting next Monday. I finish there on August 10th, and then I start at Analog Devices on August 13th. So you can see I've already been securely shackled to the sweatshop of capitalism.
And yes, the Physics course was tough. Four years of examhellstress, but it's good to have it under my belt. And I can actually watch television now without thinking I should be studying. Which is nice. To say the least.
------------------ "If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen" Samuel Adams
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Studying? Care to tell me what that is when it's at home? Hehe! The only studying I do is that of my eyelids - for holes! Not found any yet.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA Fools while you have been slaving away with your thermodynamics classes I've been living the good life. How can one have the good life in college you ask, easy I'm going to be a teacher. That's right I'm majoring in General Science Pre-Ed with a minor in Geology. I sit on my butt all day MUAHAHAHAHA. The only down fall is that when I graduate this next winter term I still have to do a grad year. Oh well I still have it really easy.
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Thought it was Statistical And Classical Thermodynamics, Jimbo?
And yes, at the time you were typing this we were wasted.
Kicked ass in that exam, yessiree! Dislocated vertebrae I kicked so hard w00t! indeed
Starving now - a few of us cooked a really deadly dinner yesterday and all I've had in between has been half a portion of chips.
Anyway, at least you've got something to look forward to, Gurgles - I haven't a clue what I'mgoing at for the rest of my life, only that I'll be staying in Galway this summer.
And FLC and Placebo are playing at Witness!!!
------------------ At that point, McDonald fired his gun three times in the air to emphasize his point. The crowd, estimated at 350,000, loudly cheered the new candidate.
"Let me make this clear: I am the law! I am your ruler! And you will have fries with that, motherf*cker!"
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That's rough, but you should really try to enjoy your final frolic in the groves of academe.
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Once my Managing Change exam is over at 8.40pm on Wednesday 6th June, then I'll be able to celebrate. With Economics and Investment Management exams before that, I'm afraid I'll be working my fragile little mind to its limits.
I'll definitely make up for it at the end though - we've already planned nights out in Bristol (my uni town for all those still not in the know) and in Manchester (where I did a year long placement last year for those not in the know) so be afraid Northerners, the boys will soon be back in town!
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*blink* You're...a physicist? One of those people that sit around wondering whether encyclopedias dropped down black holes are destroyed or not? The people that play around with particle accelerators? Well, I guess experimental physicists don't do either of those, but...hmm, that's interesting.
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My best friend is a physicist -- well, a physics major nonetheless. A graduate physics/aeronautical engineering student. He works in with a SEM in one of the physics labs at school. He claims to be able to view porn on it, but I'm not sure about that.
Anyway, I salute you and everyone else here who has truimphed over his or her exams. I finished mine on May 5th; I've been on summer break at home ever since. My grades just came in, and I'm pleased to say that I've had my 3rd best semester, academically speaking.
I would have gotten drunk after my last final, but all my friends had already left or still had errands/work to tend to. I never ever drink alone, well, I don't anymore after that incident at the grocery store with the cop and the clown.
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Daniel: Yes, we do. Who else do think invents the ideas that those things are built around.
Experimental Physics = mainly theoretical physics (QM, EM, relativity) with some elecronics, opto- and microelectronics, and a diploma in beer feasts.
We'll be getting our results on May 28th *cue Jaws music*
Well done, Under Seig.
------------------ At that point, McDonald fired his gun three times in the air to emphasize his point. The crowd, estimated at 350,000, loudly cheered the new candidate.
"Let me make this clear: I am the law! I am your ruler! And you will have fries with that, motherf*cker!"
Not so free and fun.
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