End-of-semester rant

My solid state presentation went well. I felt like I had a smooth delivery, I sounded like I knew what I was talking about (heh heh), and my slides looked good. One thing was that the audience looked terribly, terribly bored. Ah well. I'm pretty sure I didn't exceed my 15 minute alloted time, so I'm not to blame! I did my best to make the material interesting...even though, let's face it, it was some incredibly dry stuff.

I've got my final (I think it's my final...) Electricity and Magnetism homework assignment due at midnight (!) tonight, and some of these problems are a little confusing. Going to have to stop writing on here and get cracking if I'm gonna get that in under the wire... Also my Quantum homework is due tomorrow morning. Blargh!

I've only got 1 real final this semester (Quantum Mechanics), so I'm pretty relieved about that, and it's on the very last day of finals, so I'm going to be the most prepared student in that frickin class. I'm worried about the final anyway, though, because the only other real grade we've had in there (aside from our piddly 10% homework grade) is the midterm...I did well on the midterm, but if I screw up the final, everything goes down the tubes anyway. So there's some pressure there.

I think we have finals in my Electricity and Magnetism and Condensed Matter classes (actually, I really have no idea whatsoever about my CM class), but he's said it'll be a take-home final, so I'm not too worried about that. It'll probably be a fair amount of work, but there's no sense stressing out about a take-home, right?

So, I've got my spring semester schedule all figured out. Yes, I'm taking a 12-hour load of classes again, even though I only need 3 hours to graduate! (WTF is wrong with me? I'm not sure.) I'm taking Electricity and Magnetism II, Quantum Mechanics II, Mathematical Biology, and Bioinformatics and Modeling Lab. Believe it or not, I'm really looking forward to next semester's courses.

This winter break, I'm gonna try to finish up that Waddington MET model I was working on before finals-season set in. Maybe I can get a second publication out of it! It's too late for it to matter for grad school applications, but, as they say, 'publish or perish.'