three questions for you!

[nibot]

AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION TIME

1. What are your summer plans?

2. If you're in Berkeley, how long will you be sticking around?

3. Tell me about something cool.

4. What is your operating hypothesis? (extra credit)

Comments

[squarkz.livejournal.com]

1. may = working 12 hours a day in the lab, probably, trying to finish this paper before i leave. june = moving home with the parents, which ought to be... great (heh), and finding a place to live in seattle. july and august (and september) = argentina!

2. i'm not. but i got invited (just this afternoon!) to visit berkeley and party with geo people in december.

3. i graduated today!

Congratulations!

[furzicle.livejournal.com]

I just thought of one more thing I'd like to do--this summer would be good-- Or maybe next...
--Go hiking in the Sierras with a real geologist.
--Hey Tob--whadya say?? I think there's a group developing!

heh, thanks!

[squarkz.livejournal.com]

well, i guess now i am a real geologist, since i have the degree and everything!

but it's laughable how little i really know about geology. (though we did study the sierras last week in my tectonics class -- at least now i know something -- i didn't know anything about igneous formations when i hiked there two years ago.)

[squarkz.livejournal.com]

oh! i have something way cooler for #3. i learned how opals are made today! i had no clue how cool opals were until i took a materials science class, i guess. they are made of tiny little glass spheres in a close-packed arrangement! that's why they reflect all kinds of colors -- the diameter of the spheres is roughly the wavelength of visible light.

apparently they're quite easy to synthesize, and there is some reallyfuckingcool research going on that uses them for optics. i love when professors talk about their own research! now i want to be a materials scientist!