As soon as we got off the plane in Newark, we were blasted by a huge wave of heat and humidity. The temperature was 99° and then when you add in humidity I had a phenomena I dubbed "insta-sweat." Welcome to the east coast. Upon arrival at Princeton, we took a short walk through the beautiful campus. When we entered the room, it was even hotter than the outside. Eventually after a few days we came up with a nice circulation system using five fans. Even though it was hot at first, I am still grateful to Princeton for the dorms, it beats traveling to campus everyday by a long shot. The food has been pretty good too. All you can eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner is enough to make me happy.
Our first class was a class in Quantum Physics taught by Professor Caliprice. This branch of physics was completely new to me so it brought on a challenge. Luckily Professor Caliprice was a good teacher so I was able to pick things up fairly quickly, or so I thought until I did the homework.
The other of our first two classes was a class on Particle Physics. We learned a lot from Dr. Myers about the inter workings of protons and neutrons. We were also taught about the basic building blocks of everything- quarks. Following suit we talked about all of the little particles that are around us, and going through us. Then towards the end of this course we went into reactions with the strong force and weak force using Feynman Diagrams (being a visual learner, this was my favorite part of this class).
Now, having hopefully passed my Quantum and Particle Physics classes, we have moved into a whole new branch of bizarre physics known as Relativity. Wish me luck!!
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