Music and Pizza

Wednesday, Oct 10
... contd.

3:00 pm: Slept. Discovered that there was no food available at the Gates movie screening. Abandoned the plan. Wanted to study a bit too. Studied a bit. Went for dinner. Had pizza :) and potatoes and bread(!) Booked a music practice room and practised for an hour this time. Came back to the room and went to sleep.

Thursday, October 11

Awoke at 6:30. Gave a pass to the morning run. Got ready. Today's cereal was cornflakes. Plain Kellogg's cornflakes. Classes. Comp phy and then Stat mech. Both were good. Then theoretical Physics (Lagrangians and stuff. Tough course). Then lunch at the Cavendish Cafetaria. Hmm. Discovered after Shivam and I had taken the food that neither of us had any money. Ate on credit. Got our names written down in an enormous logbook (actually, only Shivam's name was written, what can I say). Pasta. Then had to meet Astro-prof (Dr Buscher). Shivam left to get money. I went to meet Buscher. He was holding his Research review meeting. Listened to it, then talked to him about prospective projects. Said "Europs" or some such thing, which was a programme for funding undergraduate projects during summer, was the best bet at the Cavendish, if I wanted to do a project here. I said I could try somewhere in the southern hemisphere. He mentioned the Anglo-Australian telescope. Will look it up.

Supervisors have been alloted. Got two profs and one PhD student. The PhD student is supervising REL. Got a mail from her informing about supervision schedule. 5 supervisions, four in this term and one in Easter (?!) one hour each. Other two supervisors have yet to write.

After meeting walked back to Trinity. Studied a bit. Then practised music in one of the music practise rooms. Went for dinner. Misread the menu again. Drat. Had turkey. Smelly turkey. No more turkey. Came back and some more studying. Slept.


Friday, October 12

Got up just in time. Went for a run. Raced a garbage truck. Chased a solitary pigeon. Startled the daylights out of my bedmaker (oh-a dee-year! you-a may-ed me ju-ump) She was coming out and I was going in the door. Got ready. Breakfast. Was the third person to enter the hall for food. Jam was late to arrive. Had toast with butter. Today I tried Kellogg's "Crunchy Nuts", with brown sugar. But there weren't any nuts, just cornflakes covered in brown sugar.

Classes. QM was terribly pathetic. Slept on and off. Covered my forty winks. Next was Relativity Electrodynamics and Light (henceforth REL). Dr Cooper pairs well with the subject. Brilliant lecture. Then was to meet Martin Longair for a research review (part of coursework) talk at 2:00. He's offering some reviews on astrophysics (he's just offering the topics, you have to do all the paper-searching and reading and writing. Plus other profs (such as the Dr Buscher mentioned before) are offering reviews as well.) Sat in Cavendish Library (called the Rayleigh lib) and studied. Met Longair at 2:00 pm. Talked also about possibility of projects. Strongly advised me not to take up anything during Christmas or Easter break, but that summer was a more viable option. He said Christmas and Easter will be required for studying. Will have a look to see how long the study break is before final exams :p

Went to Ghosh's. He was in the Edmund's library. Found him courtesy his college's Bursar, who said, "Who, Shivam? I know him! He went to the library." She took me there to find him. Came back. Terribly hungry. Made some sunfeast pasta bought back at home. Wrote a bit of this. MEt Shivam, Umang and Vidya outside Trinity. Bought some food (crumpets, beans, chopped mixed veg) and went to St. John's. Woke up Nandhini and made an absolutely scrumptious dinner of rice, dal, mixed veg and beans-aloo. Went back to Edmund's and spent the night there.

Saturday, October 13
Awoke at Eddies, jogged to Trinity, washed a shirt for the first time here, got ready, went for breakfast. Thought I'd tried all cereals there were. Was mistaken. Picked up 'bran flakes' today.
Got a mail from the flute player. We might meet today. Me off to do some bit of studying now :)
Catcha in a bit:

- Tanmoy