Week 8: Forward Thinking

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Sunday, July 26, 2020

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Samantha Creech

On Wednesday morning, I attended the Physics Today Online team’s strategy session. During this meeting, the team reviewed their procedures, accessed what wasn't working, and made plans for improvement moving forward. This meeting pointed out how much foresight is behind everything that Physics Today does. From the formatting of references within articles to the frequency of social media posts, each move is meticulously planned out. As consumers, we often don't think about the time, work, and forward thinking that goes into the details of a product, so this was an interesting opportunity to step behind the curtain.

Meanwhile, life seems to be moving fast. My roommates and I have been packing to move out of our apartment all week, I gave a speech on Monday for my virtual graduation, and the internship symposium is on the near horizon. There's a lot that I want to get done between now and August 7th, when we give our final talks, and with so many simulatenous transitions underway, it's sometimes difficult to keep track of it all. If I’m going to fulfill those ambitions, I’ll need to plan ahead with the intentionality of the Physics Today team.

As a disconnected note, I have my first published article! My piece on honeybee swarms has changed several times since I jotted my first interview notes two weeks ago, and seeing the finished product was incredibly rewarding. Given enough forward thinking, I hope to have another couple of articles under my belt before these next two weeks are up. 

Samantha Creech