Someone on here wrote that they thought writing prose was boring, so I figured I would post something that is actually true. Hey, all you people out there who read glimpses. I like to read the glimpses too. For the past few days I've been on shift and doing a lot of code compiling so I've been reading especially a lot. My two favorites so far are probably Dreaming of Tattoos and Escape Artists. So, good on you two.
I am a 26 year old girl, a physics grad student, currently living in Japan. How I came to be in Japan is a bit of an interesting story. Much like the characters in the story I am writing, I was obsessed with fantasy and the internet in my high school years. Because of this I ended up being friends with a lot of internet people who liked anime and spoke Japanese. Being particularly full of myself, I decided to teach myself Japanese in my senior year. This led to me pursuing a minor in Japanese in undergrad, which left me decently proficient if not as fluent as I would like.
日本語が話せるのに、まだあまり上手じゃないんですね。下手な文を作ったら許してくれませんか。まだ頑張って行って欲しいです。
Anyway, I became a physicist because my mother accidentally told the school I was applying to that I wanted to be a physicist and not a chemist, which is what I wanted to do at the time. Then I saw that the physics curriculum let you take chemistry, physics and programming, and I thought that just sounded like too much fun. Can you tell how full of myself I was at the time?
Anyway, after learning how to fail many times by doing physics, I finally decided it was really something I loved. So, I entered into the torture factory that is grad school. Read PhD Comics and you will learn all you need to know. Underpaid, overworked, eternally stressed. Ah, the joys of grad school.
How I came to live in Japan is this: I wanted to study neutrinos. I did an internship as an undergrad at Fermilab and worked in the accelerator division. The part of the beam I worked on especially produced protons for the neutrino experiments, so I got to meet a lot of neutrino physicists. When I went to grad school, I started working on a neutrino experiment called MINERvA. Then, in my second year, my advisor offered me a position on T2K, the long baseline experiment in Japan. He offered it to me because I was the only one of his grad students who spoke Japanese.
So now I am here, in Japan, being very cold. They do not insulate the houses around here at all. I am not sure if this is true in all of Japan or just here. Brr.
I am a 26 year old girl, a physics grad student, currently living in Japan. How I came to be in Japan is a bit of an interesting story. Much like the characters in the story I am writing, I was obsessed with fantasy and the internet in my high school years. Because of this I ended up being friends with a lot of internet people who liked anime and spoke Japanese. Being particularly full of myself, I decided to teach myself Japanese in my senior year. This led to me pursuing a minor in Japanese in undergrad, which left me decently proficient if not as fluent as I would like.
日本語が話せるのに、まだあまり上手じゃないんですね。下手な文を作ったら許してくれませんか。まだ頑張って行って欲しいです。
Anyway, I became a physicist because my mother accidentally told the school I was applying to that I wanted to be a physicist and not a chemist, which is what I wanted to do at the time. Then I saw that the physics curriculum let you take chemistry, physics and programming, and I thought that just sounded like too much fun. Can you tell how full of myself I was at the time?
Anyway, after learning how to fail many times by doing physics, I finally decided it was really something I loved. So, I entered into the torture factory that is grad school. Read PhD Comics and you will learn all you need to know. Underpaid, overworked, eternally stressed. Ah, the joys of grad school.
How I came to live in Japan is this: I wanted to study neutrinos. I did an internship as an undergrad at Fermilab and worked in the accelerator division. The part of the beam I worked on especially produced protons for the neutrino experiments, so I got to meet a lot of neutrino physicists. When I went to grad school, I started working on a neutrino experiment called MINERvA. Then, in my second year, my advisor offered me a position on T2K, the long baseline experiment in Japan. He offered it to me because I was the only one of his grad students who spoke Japanese.
So now I am here, in Japan, being very cold. They do not insulate the houses around here at all. I am not sure if this is true in all of Japan or just here. Brr.
