First post - Summer 08'
First post. I had a livejournal, but I have decided to stick with tumblr instead.
I just started attending summer semester classes at Hunter College. I’m taking Physics along with lab, lecture, and recitation. It has only been 3 days and it’s already getting hectic. So far, the class has had 3 different professors come in to teach the class. The first professor was fired after the 2nd day, so the chairman of the Physics department came in to teach instead. His reason being: “I am sorry, there are not enough good professors.” He had a heavy chinese accent, but he wasn’t that bad. Not as bad as our first professor at least. He would follow the textbook identically without even explaining the concepts of Physics.
At first, I thought getting a new professor was going to be a bad thing. Thinking we were going to get some really hard and boring professor, it was the contrary when I walked in today and was greeted by a jolly man. I could almost compare him to an Indian version of Santa Clause - no sarcasm added. He called himself Professor Ahmed Bawa and as he taught the class chapters 1 and 2, he pounced on the subject with so much enthusiasm, I stayed alert throughout the whole lecture. Surprisingly, he didn’t just stand in front of the overhead projector like some catatonic schizophrenic. He actually walked around and wrote on the whiteboard. Bawa smiled so much through the whole lecture and I could tell right away that he loved what he was doing and most importantly - Physics itself. His first impression has allowed me to give him respect, and I hope it stays that way.
Physics has been interesting, and I’ve been studying and doing a lot of problems in the textbook for practice. I hope all this hard work will pay off in the end. The lab is espcially exciting for me since I have a lot of fun doing all the exercises. Well, without the humor of my lab partners, I wouldn’t have too much fun, so I give them most of the credit for that, haha.
Anyways, I’m tired and….yea.
In the middle of the Physics lecture today, I derived an experiment to make the Grand Canyon into a vaccum and throw a baby elephant off a cliff along with a feather and see if they both land on the ground at the same time. Depending on the time I have, costs of supplies, amounts of resources, legality issues, and hoping animal activists won’t jump me, I’ll see if I can turn this into reality.
*Yawn.*
