What's new? SHP...and Siemens anxiety.

After taking the goddamn exam three times, I finally got into this program (the ironic thing is that I have given up on the science path already). Half-jokingly (and the other half for curiosity, yes, curiosity), I decided to take the astronomy course, or so as it says on the course description. Between Cosmology and Astronomy I chose the one that seems to involve less math and physics but more theoretical, descriptive stuff on purpose (in this case astronomy) but apparently they called this course Astrophysics, which I only realized until I actually got there for the Orientation. Astro...PHYSICS? My immediate response was literally WTF?! I know nothing of physics and I have no interest in any math related to physics (although I understand that astronomy is basically physics). So what happened is I coerced Curtis into taking this class with me, and Amy Chen, probably not knowing anything about the physics part either, willingly put down this course becuz Curtis had it down. Now I feel really bad.

The class itself is quite interesting--in a bad way. The teacher/professor feels like he was once a nerd/geek (just like me, except better and A LOT smarter)...He tried to pull off jokes but the class was completely silent. In a way I thought that was really cute because I can totally connect with him. In Sage's words, I "feel" him--because people don't really understand my humor either. Well I just hope the class itself get better so I won't feel so guilty anymore. :(

One thing that really made me happy was I met Paul Han, a really nice friend that I made when I was at Jason Kim's Academy, immediately after I stepped into the Havermeyer building. We haven't seen each other in quite a while and the reunion can't get any better than going to the same program every saturday.

Now it's the Siemens anxiety. The worst section for me is definitely the Methods. The reason it is particularly hard for me to write up this section is that I did not do most of what I intend to write about. I feel like I'm cheating the competition, cheating my mentor, cheating myself (although I'm sure a lot of people do this). I'm so frustrated because I don't even understand half of the vocabulary used in the Methods and I'm basically copying of what my mentor wrote for his other paper. This is PAIN. and I'm so sick of it.