In the last 6 months, I’ve finally found my way back to the beauty and excitement of physics. Yes, physics. I guess I’m becoming geekier, but I’ll just consider it a return to my roots. This fresh interest is helping me look afresh at my very hands-on and experimental Ph.D. research; I’m rediscovering how naturally focus and motivation come when I am motivated by my own questions. Pondering physics brings back feelings of awe and curiosity which have been stifled by years of jumping through educational hoops. For more about that, check out my (future) post about Standardized Higher Education.
Links
FQXi
Theiss Research
submeta
arXiv
While I could write many things on “green” topics, I was somewhat struck by one moment two weekends ago. I was stumped by simple nature.
While our family was enjoying time in the mountains, the carpenter bees were hard at work boring long tunnels through the wood of the rafters over the porch. I decided to chase a few out, Read more…
Today Kristin and I met in Birmingham, AL so we could see each other on our anniversary. Browdy’s sandwiches, a picnic in Vulcan Park, and out to the Galleria to see what “Alabama’s #1 tourist attraction” is all about.
We’re Engaged! Sure, of course Kristin’s still got a couple of years to finish school, and I won’t begin to count how many I have left… Now we’ve got something exciting on the horizon (an “event horizon“?). Special thanks to Shawn and Marisa for taking the pictures!
PhD Preliminary Exam – Mission accomplished; now for the years of actual work ;-)
