I am officially finished with my summer classes! Physics is over, and I’m fairly happy about it. My professor was great for physics! His name is John Newport, and he’s a teacher at Carmel High School. What luck I had: he obtained his Ph.D. in theoretical/mathematical physics! I’m confident that I ended up with an A in the course, and I’m ready to move on.

This fall, I’m taking a lot of great subjects. I feel that I am going to start growing a lot academically. I’m officially going to be a year ahead in physics, starting my 300 level intermediate physics courses at the start of my sophomore year. I’m also going to be taking 2 math classes: linear algebra (matrix math for the non-math nerd), and differential equations (kind of like physical modeling with equations… it’s hard to explain). Aside from my math and physics courses, I will be taking an introductory course in philosophy, and a speech course.

Outside of courses, I have started a research project with one of the professors/physicists at IUPUI. His name is Yogesh Joglekar, and he’s been awesome to work under so far!

I’m still waiting to hear back about the Dean of Science scholarship. They’ve had a lot of trouble with organization and administration this summer, because they’re doing everything very differently this year. I don’t know when I’m supposed to expect to hear about that, but so far I’ve got $1500 dollars in scholarships for this fall. If I do get the Dean of Science scholarship, that will bring it up to $2750 in scholarships for the fall, bringing me to about 67% payed for this fall. Cross your fingers for me!