Wow already reflecting on week 5, time is really flying now and the summer AAPT meeting is coming up fast! The panel I’m hosting is coming along well, I reached out to one of my mentors and they connected me with 4 of their students.
This fourth of July, while traveling down the river that is my internship, I looked outside sometime around evening. The sun was setting. It was painting a rainbow of autumn colors across the sky.
Happy end of week 5! We are somehow already halfway through the summer. Currently, I am working to narrow accomplishments so that only the most important are in the short biographies I am writing for the SOR Fellows. How do you gauge what is the most important accomplishments in somebody’s life?
This was a short but chaotic week here at APS Careers. The long and short of it is that this week can “kindly” be called, Shape Up week...The email series had a very tumultuous timeline that took up far more headspace than Midhat or I predicted.
The halfway mark brings me closer to completing my project. While we have covered a lot of ground there is still a vast set of tasks to which I look forward to completing over the coming weeks. This was the first time that I got to experience a long weekend in a work setting.
This week’s post will be a bit less focused on work, and a bit more focused on a small (relatively menial) experiment I’m running this week on human behavior, namely my own.
Since the pandemic accelerated back in March, we’ve all been experiencing a weird passage of time. For some, it’s plodded by, each week like a year. For others, we blinked and found ourselves in July.
While there are many things that I could talk about on this day, today is a day of remembrance. You might ask what we are to remember? Two Hundred Forty-Four years ago, our forefathers founded this country. While everyone will agree that this country is not perfect, we can also agree that it i