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+Journal: Feb 04, 2009</h1>
+<i>Bryan Newbold, <a href="mailto:bnewbold@mit.edu">bnewbold@mit.edu</a></i><br />
+<i><a href="http://web.mit.edu/bnewbold/thesis/">
+http://web.mit.edu/bnewbold/thesis/</a></i>
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+Started 8.962: General Relativity with Scott Hughes yesturday, I'm very
+enthusiastic. I'm surprised how large the class is, I'm greedily hoping it will
+thin out. My first impressions are that it will be very manageable given the
+background preparation I've done. We'll be doing "fundamentals" up through
+the spring break and applications after that, which fits my schedule well.
+
+<p />
+Yet another item on my reading queue is
+Laszlo Tisza's notes on Applied Geometric Algebra on
+<a href="http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/resources/tisza/index.htm">
+open courseware</a> from the 70's. I'm also poking through Lovelock and Rund's
+<u>Tensors, Differential Forms, and Variational Principles</u> as light
+background on tensor calculus as I work through the later parts of the
+differential geometry memo.
+
+<p />
+Other than that not much to report, first week of classes are leaving me enough
+time to keep reading but I haven't been playing/exploring on my own as much.
+Hopefully I'll get the chance to calculate some geodesics and come up with
+an outline on Friday.
+<br /><br />
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