First Day of Class

Well today I met with Dr. Kimble, my research advisor and met his secretary as well. She is in the process of setting me up with an office (yay!) and a computer. She put me in a temporary office with another student, but she's going to try to get me my own private one. The one I'm in now is pretty fabulous though, it has a window overlooking the library stacks. Also, Dr. Kimble is going to get one of the computers from the lab moved into my office for me, how cool is that!? I have also dropped one of my Math classes in favor of a different one. Dr. Kimble, though retired, is teaching one class this semester, on wavelets, so I'm taking that one instead of the Mathematical Methods in Physics. He said that would be a tough one to take the same semester as Applied Vector Calculus, and I'm all for going slow and easy as long as they're paying to keep me here. Incidentally, the App. Vector Calc. this morning went very well. I was the only math major in there, but the material seemed tremendously easy. I'm sure it'll get tougher as the semester goes on, but I have an advantage in that I've had essentially 6 semesters of calculus whereas the requirement for an engineer is only 3. My Inviscid Flow class was somewhat different. It's an engineering class and I've never had an engineering class before. I really like the professor, Dr. Vakili, he seems really nice and eager to help us learn. He said I'll probably have to do some background work to catch up to the rest of the class as I've never had Thermodynamics or Fluid Dynamics. He said during class that we should talk to him if we were overwhelmed and thinking of dropping the class, but he specifically said I'm not allowed to drop because he has a daughter who's a math major and he wants to prove to her that math can be an avenue to engineering. He's cool guy, and I really think I'm going to enjoy the class. Anyway, that's all for now, gotta go study -

P.S. Just to make some of you jealous - gas is $2.48 today at the gas station at the end of my road...