Society of Physics Students

Week Ten: Thank you, SPS

Friday, August 10, 2018

Amanda Williams

On our final day, I was caught in a surreal trance.

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Week Nine: AAPT

Friday, August 3, 2018

Amanda Williams

If you were to walk around the Renaissance Hotel this week, you would find it filled with physicists on a mission. It was the AAPT Summer Meeting, which was (fortuitously for us) in DC! I haven’t been to an AAPT Meeting before, and what a shame I haven’t; I had so much fun.

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Afterthoughts and Acknowledgements

Monday, January 14, 2019

Michael Welter

It’s been about 5 months since the 2018 SPS Interns packed up our stuff, said our goodbyes (for some of us, through tears), and headed back to our corners of the country. When I returned back to North Carolina, I felt...different.

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Choose To Be Extraordinary

Friday, August 3, 2018

Michael Welter

"Some people are walking around with a tub of doubts.

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Week Eight: Smorgasbord

Friday, July 27, 2018

Amanda Williams

Want a sneak peak of all the variety you get as an intern here? Let me take you on my week 8 journey.

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Phacing the Phuture as a Physicist

Friday, July 27, 2018

Michael Welter

Only 15 days left until the end of the 2018 SPS Internship Program!

SPS Interns posing outside the NASA Visitor Center

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Week Seven: Lessons From a Bicycle

Friday, July 20, 2018

Amanda Williams

There’s something oddly satisfying about achieving a qualitative personal goal. It’s not one that’s like “I’m going to learn today” or “today I’m not going to say anything negative,” but those really specific, palpable ones.

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Brushes and Beakers

Friday, July 20, 2018

Michael Welter

One of my closest friends Erin Brady and I have been on a constantly twisting and turning journey throughout our freshman, sophomore and junior years at

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Thumbs Up for Science

Friday, July 13, 2018

Michael Welter

"All physicists are awkward. There are like four different categories of awkward, but we all fit into one of them." -Brad Conrad explaining the story behind yelling "Thumbs up for Science!" before every physicist photoshoot (example below). 

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Week Six: At the intersection of Physics and DC

Friday, July 13, 2018

Amanda Williams

As I sit and work on write ups for our outreach page, I ponder about the different kind of obstacles people face to understanding a concept.

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