Back to normal

Now that all the thesis stuff is over and done with, it turns out that having a certificate saying I’ve got a PhD

One down…

“No openings right now. Sorry.” And the other one I really wanted could be a couple weeks until I hear back,

Whew!

Busy week… it’s now about four and a half months (and counting) until I defend, and I’ve finally gotten

Grad student morale

This week the lab completely rearranged two of the instruments. These are basically microscopes with some extra optics, and we got in some optical breadboards to mount the laser and optics on. (One disadvantage is that the 532-nm laser is now pretty much at eye level for everyone in the lab…. oops.) [...]

Mondays

Got the paper out the door yesterday; I wound up submitting it since my advisor was out of town. One of the most

Autumn blues

Or do I mean “browns” intead of “blues”? Blue seems like a nicer color, at least right now, when

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