Un cajon a la vez

As of late, I've been really anxious to hear back from the other grad schools I applied to! I check the mail box each day, but unfortunately I keep getting boring grocery store coupons or sometimes just an empty box. Probably in the next couple of weeks though I should hear back from a bunch of them... This last weekend Ryan stopped by Provo for a bit to do some recruiting for PWC--he even got to go snowboarding with the new recruits (all expenses paid)! On Sunday, he hung out with some friends from Valencia while I dropped by Spanish Fork to see Grandpa.

As for school... if you've ever wondered why plants and animals look the way they do or why people have certain diseases, or wondered how to model temperature changes in a metal bar or standing waves on a circular membrane (yeah, probably not), or agonized over whether a solution actually exists to that complex differential equation you've been thinking about (you know, Ty, the one that always comes up during class break when you've got nothing else on your mind...), or how to figure out complex integrals or derivatives (things college math students worry about) with the click of a mouse, or what is the latest physiology topic talked about at BYU, or what fugacity and entropy of chemical reactions really means (which, along with me, you're probably wondering right now), or what the homework problems and answers are for Physics 106, 123, or 220 (classes I'm a TA for), or how to image delicate membrane proteins hanging out in a bubble of liquid using a silicon tip the size of a single bacteria or smaller (this is what I do in the underground lab)... then you could say we probably have a lot in common.

As for other things going on... Ty just had a birthday yesterday. I tried to call a few times, but so far no luck. I did talk to Jami though and she says a flu has been going around Vancouver (though I think it's not too bad). She's also getting ready to deliver a baby boy in the next couple months! He'll be my first nephew!

Well better get back to physics homework: more exciting encounters with abstract patterns of motion inside two dimensional rectangles (basically a combination of complex math and simple shapes)...  hmm, maybe next time I'll just stick with "physics homework".

Saw you pulling up...

So today I got a new suit from missionary mall... seriously though, I spent tons of time trying on different styles and sizes--I kind of felt like I was in a donut shop: I was like (slow speech), "oookay... I'll get 1 plain black suit, 3 blue ties, 5 pairs of socks..., no 6 pairs of socks-- no, make that 4 ties, NO, NO! PUT IT BACK! PUT IT BACK! I want a Edwards brand, grey pin-stripped coat with 2 red ties and some shoe polish! --QUICK! Get the ladder!!" (this is a spin-off from Brian Regan... just in case some of you haven't seen it).

Next week I'll be flying out to Winston-Salem, NC to interview with Wake Forest University! Cool, huh? I'm way excited!