physics and drinks

My physical maths professor has a very clear way of speaking and explaining things, and is on the whole very easy to follow. However, like most of the maths instructors I've ever had, he is very awkward about speaking in front of a group. His particular idiosyncracy: a tendency to repeat himself. "This solution is more complicated. How is it more complicated? Well, it's more complicated in the fact that..."

At the end of my Quantum lecture, our second turn-in assignment was due and we got our first hand-in back. Edinburgh has a good system in that students affix a barcode of their exam number to their work, so the graders don't know whose assignment they are grading and can't be biased, and the score can enter into the electronic records more easily. Unfortunately, it also means that when over a hundred papers are stacked together, it is next to impossible to locate your own. There is no good system for it... next time I need to remember to highlight the top corner. A little trick I developed: it's eye-catching and no one else does it.

Lastly, a note on beverages.

-Scottish people put milk in their tea. The English do too, but not as much. It's not so weird, I suppose, even though the majority of people I know might put sugar or lemon or occasionally a little milk, but never always milk. It's odd in that the action of not putting milk into tea is considered near-barbaric.
But I feel that way about most things... if I'm going to drink something, I'm going to drink it straight. Coffee and tea are bitter but that's part of the acquired taste.
-On that note, milk (and other dairy products) are relatively inexpensive to buy. It could be the large numbers of cattle in Britain. The price for a gallon of milk is about equivalent to our own.
-All the orange juice I've seen have been American imports... Tropicana, Minute Maid, etc. Somehow I thought that there would be some orange groves around in Spain that might be easier to import from but maybe Florida really is the closest available. At any rate, it would explain the poor quality of the bananas and oranges available from the dining hall (though the apples tend to be pretty good).


Rugby World Cup Finals are this weekend. Hope to watch both games.