Ben has now registered as a student and is working on some courses in the sciences and labs. ben partially fainted after a the first lecture of a theoretical physics/maths course (4hours). after finishing his homework in quantum mechanics, things, thank G-d were looking up though. He's doing a lab course in scanning probe microscopy, which includes many cool techniques to image things that are rather small. pay is nice and i've got friendly with a bunch who carpool to and from jerusalem every day, which is really handy.
my research group is interesting. they mainly deal with biomolecular electronics and solar cells. its very interdisciplinary. mainly biochemistry with heavy glosses of physics and semiconductors. I am on a trial for at least 3 months, by which time i really hope i will settle into a project and be accepted onto a phd track. i'm leaning mostly towards bio-electronics, which is relatively new, and the lab is mainly concerned with developing new techniques to generate interesting data. cool.
i've not yet been approved for animal testing... (probably ben's only route into zoology, his real passion) since there are serious restrictions in access! campus is beautiful, although they could do with a prayer room! how very annoying. mincha is carried out every day in a corridor somewhere... havent managed to find the sefardi 'corridor' minyan yet, but will try. long term goal: establish proper place of prayer at weizmann. politics!
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