1600 Pennsylvania Avenue..

The morning brought the much anticipated nano vs. cheng (and Morag) meeting. Although there was no juice or muffins, the meeting did feel positive in that we have made some progress. "Action items" (as cheng puts it) that stand out are:

(1) Impeach the nano club (hence the white house reference). They suck. They used to be good, but they suck now. The forth years simply lack energy and drive. They like their titles but don't want to do anything. Our solution, kick them out and takeover. Screw them. Who do they think they are? Who elected them? They are obviously not doing anything of relevance. Networking events, a lecture series, anything... just so we can feel good about nano and that our education means something. We're young, intelligent and motivated, with the proper planning, the nanoclub can easily evolve into one of the best clubs in engineering.

(2) Curriculum changes. We are planning to re-evaluate all the core courses in third and forth year. There is an outside chance that the changes can be made in time for forth year.

After the meeting, there was Nogami... boring as usual.... then physics labs. I actually did some work on the first day, which is very surprising. I think I figured out how to take data, the key is to figure out what to do with it. Some sort of meiseler effect crap with hardcore E and M. To help me figure the stuff out, I took out a few of the reference books from the library. One of them is "Introduction to Solid State Physics" by Kittel (the same guy from thermal physics). Where has this book been? What the hell have we been doing in the first part of phys elec, atoms now, and random points in nanostructures. Just give us a course with this book. Holy crap. This is a core course... this is nano. Someone needs to tell perovic and cheng.

okay.. so I think I get nano a bit more or am at least able state that I am in.. Solid state physical and chemical, materials and electical engineering..... that's the working title for now. That'll shut them up when they ask what nano is.

gtg.. bye bye for today