August 26, 2004

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  I am officially started with my PhD now.  This friday was
  orientation, which was fun.  I met most of the new grad students,
  and it seems like a good group.  Not a fan of the girl/guy ratio,
  however.  On saturday we went up into the Wasatch range, and hiked
  around the famous ski resort known as Alta.

  

  It was a fun day.  I felt like the magical man from happy land, in
  a gumdrop house on lollypop lane.  One crazy thing that happened
  is one girl, who was from MN and MI, passed out twice on the outcrop,
  once for 5 sec and once for 20 sec, separated by ~2 min.  It was
  kinda scary, but she was OK and hiking some more 15 min later.  We
  looked at a pluton and the areole around the pluton, including a neat
  forsterite marble.

  That’s all for now.

  P.S. I love DirectTv.

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