After some serious deliberation, I have an accepted an offer of admission and fellowship from the UW Madison Medical Physics Department. I'll be moving to Madison in the fall and expect to spend four or five years obtaining my degree ( Read more... )

Less than twelve hours after I posted last night, I received an email invite to Mayo's interview weekend. Woohoo!

Interim's done (or at least close) and my forays into electronic music are likely finished with it. Not that my class wasn't kind of fun. If you're interested in any of the stuff I did, it's here. I leave early Saturday morning on a flight to Miami, which will be followed by a week aboard Radiance of the Seas touring the Carribean with 20 or so ( Read more... )

So, done with finals (yay). I even got my quantum final back already--A (yay!). AND, I got my physics GRE scores--740, 67% (yay!!!). I know that beating two out of three doesn't sound all that impressive, but Dr. Cederberg informed me that mine was the highest score in the department since the illustrious Matt Feig, who won an NSF fellowship in ( Read more... )

Twins resign Brad Radke to two years, $18 million, and offer Koskie arbitration. Also offered arbitration: Henry Blanco and Terry Mulholland. Now, Blanco already signed with the Cubs, so the Twins just offered arbitration to get draft picks (Blanco was a type B free agent, ~3rd round pick ( Read more... )

Thanksgiving break is always a great time of the year. Sure, I like the Thanksgiving part, but for me it's always because I can start celebrating Christmas. Today I helped my dad put the lights on the house, and we cut down our tree. It has long been a goal of mine to eventually own a house that has an area with a high celing so I can put a ( Read more... )

I'm done with school ( Read more... )

It's funny how quickly fall break passes when you spend most of it watching mindless cable. I think break made me realize how lucky St Olaf students are to not have cable--I mean, I'm not much of a TV watcher at all, but the power of several dozen channels may be too much for me to bear. Univision, Iron Chef, poker, Monster Garage, Inside the ( Read more... )

I'm not happy that the Red Sox won the ALCS ( Read more... )

I'm worth $3,033,077.19! How much are you worth?

That appraisal is slightly more favorable than this one or even this other one.