by Pamela | Aug 5, 2008 | Personal
As those of you who have been reading for a while probably know, I am one of the worker bees behind the International Year of Astronomy. While I’m going to continue to teach next year, I’m taking a reduced course load so I can focus on attacking the world...
by Pamela | Aug 5, 2008 | Personal
I would like to start this blog post by saying graduate school sucks. Any romantic longing for the better days of my youth that you decide to try and read into this post are very false. If you get from your bachelors degree to your PhD without crying, without wanting...
by Pamela | Aug 1, 2008 | Personal
Enjoy a summer day (or night) at a carnival. The Carnival of Space is at 21st Century Waves.
by Pamela | Jul 31, 2008 | Personal
Currently, I’m at SSU learning how teachers teach astronomy and physics concepts related to the types of high energy astrophysics that will be studied in by the recently launch GLAST telescope. I flew out so that I could teach these master teachers about...
by Pamela | Jul 25, 2008 | Personal
A few weeks ago in the middle of a meeting, Chris Lintott piped up, “One more line and you’ll have a haiku.” So, I responded “This isn’t that line,” which managed to have the required 5 syllables. For reasons that can only be...
