01-26-11 – Weather

For anyone in the path of the storm that’s over a good chunk of the Northeast, now would be a good time for snowy weather pictures! It’s coming down fast right now. I went out for a check since the wind had died down to see if Atrus would be okay out there (he was asking to go out earlier but it was so windy) and grabbed my camera to see what I could get and the show is just about melting on contact.

Of all the things to double post…

That’s OK. I just took it that you really felt strongly about it. 😉

Ah, well that explains why I didn’t see it. I have an account on FB, but it’s only to keep tabs on the kids. I “waste” enough time here. 😉

And you have my respect, too, then. It’s all I can do to deal with my problems, much less someone elses! 😆

Elsinore, I actually think you may find Hospice a rewarding choice to persue. I was an Aministrator for Long Term Care and loved it. Our Hospice contacts were a great addition to the nursing home team making it possible for those who wanted to go home.

Man, am I intimately aware of that. One of my degrees is Engineering Physics. It was all good until we got into quantumn mechanics. I took some comp sci classes for math electives and ending up liking it enough that I went on to earn a CS degree, too, but comparitively, CS is a walk in the park. I’ve got a huge amount of respect for the physicists out there.

As an astronomy/physics student who has taken far too many quantum and thermal classes to be consistent with good mental health, I thank you. Still, I’m not so sure I agree with U-Man-this stuff is pretty difficult, but medicine just seems way beyond difficult in a lot of ways. When you’re doing physics, there’s usually no real time limit or important stakes resting on your shoulders (like lives, for example). Just my two cents.

As an astronomy/physics student who has taken far too many quantum and thermal classes to be consistent with good mental health…

Yeah, I think there’s something about upper-level physics that either requires or generates (I’m not sure, it’s a chicken-and–egg thing) a certain, shall we say, different way of thinking. 🙂 Every one of my physics professors fit the stereotype to a tee.

And I think Teller and Openheimer might disagree with you about the lack of important stakes. 😉 (Not to diminish the pressure of being doctor at all.)

Anyway, good luck with your studies, stay sane, and keep with it. I consider physics to be the top of pile of engineering-related studies. As I used to rib my friend who’s a petroleum engineer, “The rest of y’all just plug numbers into forumlas, the physicists derived those formulas in the first place!”

Of course, the mathematicians would say they’re ultimately on the top of that pile, and I’m not going to argue. Anyway, the weirdness in physicists is a combination of the internal strangeness and the external. You have to be a little crazy to do it in the first place, and by doing it, that bit of you is magnified. Everybody needs a release; I’ve got photography (among other things) and I’m always thankful for this place.

Also, I’m half quivering with anticipation, half dreading returning to college. I plan on doubling up between nuclear and aerospace engineering. Hooray for 26th level differentiations of the fission equation whilst maintaining proper thermal properties in set orbital dynamics. But hey, someone’s gotta design the next generation of satellites.

/And if I work where I want to end up working, you’d better throw some optical equations in there for good measure.