The Top Ten Signs It's Going to Be a Long School Year

• 10. Power outage on first day of school.

• 9. First and second term colloquia are all about Buckyballs or string theory.

• 8. Your experiment uses the FEL.

• 7. Third term colloquia are all about you!

• 6. March rains start in November.

• 5. Brooks Institute students photograph your house instead of Broida.

• 4. First thing a potential advisor asks is "Do you know how big a duo-plasmatron is?"

• 3. You're enrolled in Physics 205.

• 2. New officemate watches Barney religiously.

  And the number one sign it's going to be a long school year...

• Can't decide if you're the Daddy Mac or the Mac Daddy.