Before heading off to graduate school, many students take a year off to do something else. For example, graduates from this past Spring semester are working in consulting firms and making music. This program also organizes monthly events which focus on women's issues in the physical sciences. Planning committee meeting times for Fall '99 are Wednesday's at 5PM in 333 LeConte. Offers individual and group tutoring, problem solving workshops, intensive discussion sections, GRE workshops, and other activities that support the academic and social growth of the physics community .
Undergraduates are welcome.
Has couches, computers, and lots of students to ask questions of. It's the center of undergrad astronomy life. 705 is not as formal as the physics reading room in LeConte. Instead, it's more laid back and everyone knows each other. There is an official function once per semester that introduces the undergrads to the grads.