hi. how are you? im fine, thanks. school is hard but im learning a lot which is nice. physics is crazy brutal on my brains. i went to a couple of conferences recently for research im working on. i went to a really big conference last week in salt lake city. talked to a bunch of different graduate schools which was neat. it snowed when i was there ( Read more... )

sometimes, when i have really bad low blood sugars, ill have these strange panic attacks and my minds imagination goes pretty wild. well, when i woke up the other morning i had a really low blood sugar and i had this fear that the infected* people from 28 days/weeks later were real and that if they came to texas i wouldnt survive because i was home ( Read more... )

my research group is finally done writing the technical report for our summer project. im kind of bummed because i havent really had a break from school and with school starting next week i wont get one till winter. oh well, at least i know i havent forgotten any important math stuff over the summer. next weekend, all the astronomy lab assistants ( Read more... )

school starts two weeks from monday so thats a bummer. jacob got to stay at the house thursday night, all day friday, and saturday morning since a show was canceled in between albuquerque and austin. he is only gone for two more weeks now and ill be glad to have him back home! living with brennen is like living in a sitcom. a very messy sitcom. ( Read more... )

i just got back from an awards ceremony at mathfest and i won a prize for my talk. yay! my professor is gonna be soooo giddy. madison wisconsin is a really nice place and they have a great school. ive seen a lot of interesting talks at mathfest while ive been here too. there is this 28 year old guy from mit (who got his phd at 20) who does A LOT of ( Read more... )

i leave wednesday morning for mathfest in madison wisconsin. im presenting research on one of the equations we worked with over the summer for my math nreup. im not very excited, id much rather stay at home and start reading my textbooks for school. i am graduating in 4 semesters which is exciting. i know all the classes i need to take from here on ( Read more... )

i have come to learn that i do not like math research. physics research all the way!! it doesnt help that there seems to be a mix up with the payment schedule but i did get a free copy of mathematica. sadly, mathematica will not pay my bills. i also might have enough credit hours to double major in physics and math, but again, physics all the way. ( Read more... )

i wanted to say thanks to dustin and michael for their awesome ideas for the society of physics students shirts. they decided to go with the isaac newton in hip hop gear saying "what goes up GOTZ 2 GET DOWN!". now, if anyone is a good at drawing or photoshopping and has some free time, maybe you would want to toss a picture/drawing of isaac newton ( Read more... )

so im in my dorm a uta (kalpana chawla hall) after my first day working with the math research group. it was a fun day and i already have an assignment to work on for monday. i really need to review some of my calculus 1-3 stuff since i was a bit slow working some problems today. not cool. nonlinear partial differential equations look very ugly but ( Read more... )

does anyone have any good ideas for a funny/cute physics related thing for a shirt? the society of physics students wants to have shirts and we have to bring ideas to our meeting on friday and i have nothing. hit me up if you got something and ill love you forever.