Yesterday, I returned to lab traumatized by Statistical Mechanics class. I came in making a face that apparently amused my labmate enough that she asked me what was wrong.
"Class was BORING" I tell her. She laughs. "No, I mean it, it was REALLY BORING." She laughs some more.
"You know, class isn't always supposed to be exciting."
Yes it is folks, especially when you're a graduate student. See, learning is fun. If it wasn't fun we shouldn't do it, or more precisely, shouldn't try to make that our profession (which, in my idealized little world, is how a graduate student ought to be defined).
We were covering electrons in metals. I've learned about electrons in metals three times now. It's incredibly important. And, in my experience, incredibly painful and incredibly boring. Why is it so boring? Was it boring to the various dudes who developed it? I hope not. Is it boring to our professor who teaches it? Maybe, but I'd like to think not, because if it were boring to him he shouldn't teach it. So then why is it boring to me? I'm interested in semiconductors, or at least I appreciate them. Someone should make fermi statistics and density of states fun to learn about. Please? Any takers?
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