etaudarg

i'm halfway through college, time doesn't just fly, it goes at godspeed.

if you're currently confused on your love life, read and understand THIS. i trust in jim's greater wisdom. that guy should really start writing books and publishing them.

went to graduate admissions discussions today with aimee. apparently if you're in the physics discipline, once you're admitted to a grad program, you don't actually have to pay for anything. you might have to be a teaching or research slave, but you really don't have to pay a single penny by yourself. everything is paid by the department since they've got so much money from the research fund. the only catch is that you'll have to be a good student. if you slack off they can ask you to pack your bag the next day. not a good news for a lazy bum like me. =/

so i was pondering which grad school programs i should apply to, and since i want to be doing particle physics, i'd have to choose the ones that have good programs in particle. UC san diego is definitely an option, not for the HEP department, but for the weather. la jolla is paradise. university of washington in seattle has, i heard, a good program in particle, so that would be an option as well. the same goes for UC santa barbara. so those three are in my list of schools i will definitely apply to.

now the dream schools: definitely caltech in pasadena. they got the geiger research stuff going on there, and who knows, maybe there is such a thing as gravity waves. princeton is also another one, although it's all the way in new jersey. then the top-notch dream school: STANFORD. not just that it's a prestigious school, but that school has pretty much everything i've always been looking for: it's own cathedral-like church and it's own linear accelerator.

but then again, these are the dream schools. i'm gonna need excellent rec letters and GRE scores if i want my application to be even looked at and not be a midnight snack for the paper shredders.

so i got the target schools and the dream schools. i need backup schools. dammit.