youngs's blog

So there has been some concern recently about the onset of the blog system here at the NSCL. Currently there are two competing theories on why this system is not such a good idea. The first thought is that the students blogging are going to be inclined to mention things involving their research projects. If they reveal too much, someone reading their blog could eventually scoop them.

So every scientist, no matter what field of science you are in, knows jokes that you and your colleagues get and everyone else on the planet looks at you like you should be committed to an asylum. My personal favorites are the ones that rip on chemists, engineers and mathematicians, but then again I'm a physicist and tend to be an elitist (read elitist as ... well I guess I shouldn't type that but you get the idea) due to that fact. But every group has their own little quirks and the NSCL is no different.

So we will have to see how these first few blogs go. Amazingly enough, despite growing up in "The Age of Technology" I have never blogged before. Oh well, instead of liking to hear my own voice I will have to learn to like my own typeset. Moving one, you are catching me at one of the more exciting (for a grad student) parts of being an experimentalist. This is my last day of working 5 am to 9 am shifts. I'm very excited because that means I can move my bedtime back from 9 pm to...well whenever I feel like it.