Hmm, I reread my entry from yesterday and it sounds way more upbeat about my classes than I remember feeling. However, I definately am more in tune with it today, now that I decided to drop the class with the half a book to read. I found out that another class I had been interested does not conflict with one of my other classes and that it had just been an error in the course catalog, so gone is the five credit class that I'm sure would have been interesting, but also driven me to a shallow grave.

So, unless something major changes, I'll be taking Hydrodynamics, Rivers, Channels and Streams (a fancy, more attractive name for Open Channel Flow), Privitization of Water Supply and Sanitation, Physical Hydrogeology, and Sailing. So I'll still get a policy class in, as well as a geology.

I'm still a bit lost in Hydrodynamics, so if anyone understands Einstein's Summation Convention, I'd love to hear about it, but so is everyone else, and the TA is going to help us, so I think by next week I'll probably be on better ground.

And I went to my first swim practice with the Masters team here on campus. They seem nice, but let me tell you, swimming in an outdoors pool when its a windy 60 degrees is not that fun. But at least the pool seems really warm.

California misconception #1: The weather's great because its been 70-80 degrees and sunny every day. WRONG! It may reach 80 every day, but the mornings and evenings are in the 50s, and it doesn't get sunny until the middle of the day, so you need to dress for 80, when its boiling, with layers for the 50s, since its around that when I leave for class. Not quite what I had expected.

Posted by dahl at September 30, 2004 12:11 AM

That's California weather, especially in the SF area. Layer Layer Layer. It's a beautiful campus there, umm, Stanford right? The museum there is surprisingly nice and worth a visit. It has one of the golden spikes. Look for the oversized snake across the st in the park. Quite unusual.