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 memories of what never was
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04 August 2003 22:04 meg and i have recreated our cave of a room here in her lab. theres a room off to the side with a bookshelf, microwave, and makeshift table. and this is where weve set up our computers side by side and sit here, making the occasional comments about whatever were working on. and im soooo tired. have the entry in my head, cant bring myself to type it. strange that i should be tired, i havent really done anything all day. the most i really did was our chat with garg this afternoon. garg makes me feel like such a bad physicist in comparison with him. and hes known that my weak point is math. so were talking about physics majors who double major in math, and how common that combination is today. "or at least the good ones do," he said, looking straight at me. we doubled over laughing, cause i knew he was just teasing, but i really wanted to cry. i walked out of there thinking that i should just get a degree in journalism and do science writing; forget about this whole research thing. joe walked out thinking of going into business. ironic that we should think these things so soon after an interview for a brochure to attract and retain undergraduates in the physics major. there we were going on and on about why weve stuck with physics and why physics is the liberal arts of the sciences. and just for the record, physics is indeed the liberal arts of the sciences, and thats why it rocks so much. if you can do physics, you can do anything. unfortunately after talking to garg, i feel like i cant do physics.
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