Initial Reviews are Good

I got an email last night from Suzan L., the professor at Duke I talked to back in December. She says the graduate committee is impressed and she wants me to come for a campus visit. I'm trying to figure out when I can make that happen. Today I got a voice message for a professor at UNC who wants to talk to me.

The semester is getting started for real now (though I never really feel it's gotten started until I take my first exam). The physical oceanography course is even less substantive than I thought it was going to be -- a joke, really. Quantum mechanics continues to freak me out. We're learning some exotic tricks for doing certain integrals, and one or two of them would probably make most mathematicians roll over in their graves. Or at least dead mathematicians.