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. We have been running our experiment for something like 10 days now and it is finally coming to a close which means hopefully I'll be getting my weekends back.
Enough about our experiment for the time being. Since this is the first blog I should give a little more info about me than is found in my bio. I am originally from Rockford, Illinois and did my undergrad here at State. I double majored in Physics and Mathematics and graduated in May with my Bachelors. I started working at the Cyclotron in May of 2006 and have been working with the HiRA group since then.
Outside of school and work, I am the Secretary of the Michigan State Dodgeball Team and I am trying to get involved with the MSU Ultimate Frisbee Team better known as Burning Couch. Due to a lack of coinciding free time (i.e. no free time) the frisbee has been moved to the back burner but should start up again here real soon. Other than that I am your typical (well mostly typical) nerdy physicist that enjoys computers, video games, and bad science jokes.
I guess that I should also put in a small disclaimer into my blog as well. I will almost never sugar coat anything. However, oftentimes my opinions do not coincide with many of the people around me. I am not necessarily confrontational but I surely do not avoid confrontation when it comes my way. Anything that can be found in my blogs will be my own work and my own opinions. Every now and then I will probably say something after a period where things went wrong at work and I get upset and out of line. From past experiences this is not a rare occurance and happens at almost every place of employment, not often mind you, but it does happen. I just tend to be more vocal about it. So really what I mean to say is my views are my own, not the lab's, not the university's and so on and so on blah blah you get the idea.
Anyways, look forward to seeing several more of my posts in the next few days in both lab and nonlab sections.