Advisor Selection

So I found out yesterday- I was able to get the advisor I wanted, so I'll be doing research for Kenneth Shull doing something polymers-related. I know that's kind of vague, but we haven't decided on a specific project yet. For the time being, I'm assigned to work on a project on perfecting the reversible assembly of a triblock copolymer in aqueous solution, so in other words I would be working on hydrogels. I'm pretty psyched about it. My goal is to have a good NSF proposal done by the end of next week, so I'll be done with my quantum exam tomorrow, and don't have any real homework due for a few weeks. I do have another test on Nov. 1 though, but it's for differential equations, and let's be honest, I could study the day before and probably do well. Haha. Luckily that class goes at a much slower pace, and most if it has been review so I'll just need to brush up on a few things before taking the exam.

Speaking of exams, the first half of my quantum test was less than pleasurable. I'm pretty sure nobody finished and we all think we failed miserably. Luckily, that means we'll all do well because he grades us all relative to each other. Haha. It was a really frustrating test because I was working pretty quickly the whole time, and still had parts that I didn't even manage to start doing, so I just scribbled some stuff down before turning it in that was basically devoid of all math. I don't think anybody actually used their calculator, which is funny because it's a quantitative exam, so theoretically all of ours answers should have involved some sort of intense calculation. Haha, but mostly that amounted to everybody writing sentences like "this is what I would have done if I didn't run out of time". Good times. I've got the second half tomorrow, and I'm not looking forward to it. On the bright, I'll have group meeting for the first time with my new group at 10:30 am. Nice... I've got to get some sleep, so I'll post again after this weekend.