As I sit in the learning commons of my college, blaring music on my headphones to spare my ears from the accented babbling of international students, I ponder all of the poor choices I had made during university. I have continued to make these same poor choices during this semester at college, choosing to read poker books or my facebook timeline instead of doing my assigned work or, God-forbid, exercise. So I have decided to come up with my new year's resolution a little sooner.
These resolutions are intended to set me on a course for consistency and hopefully foster productivity.
1. Start to develop an exercise regimen that does not involve me running down the stairs to get the door for the pizza delivery man. Just 15 minutes a day to start, and increasing intensity and duration as motivation allows.
2. Work on the procedure analysis sections of lab reports on the days that labs are performed. This will ensure that information about the lab is still fresh in my mind.
3. Do not use lectures as a place to dick around on my laptop. Even better than that would be to not bring my laptop to school at all.
Now, I resolve to finish up my work for the day.
Wish me luck.
Monday, December 9, 2013
Friday, November 1, 2013
Rebirth
It has been a while since my last post, so it is time for an update.
I finished up my first undergraduate degree in Honours Physics at Brock University. I guess in the spirit of this blog, I will give you an update on how well that went.
I spent the vast majority of time in the last couple of years in university doing things like you'd expect an upstanding young man, such as myself to do. I would sleep sporadic hours, become blackout drunk 2 to 3 nights a week, and sitting in the dark the rest of my nights, staring at various versions of brightly lit rectangles.
In spite of being a lazy piece of crap, in my 4th academic year of university; I had chosen to undertake a thesis in Optical Spectroscopy, supervised by Dr.David Crandles. For a number of reasons, this project took me about 2 years to finish, as opposed to the usual 8 months allowed for an undergraduate research project. Thankfully, Dr. Crandles is a very understanding man, and allowed me to take my time, so I could finish my thesis and be able to graduate. I presented my thesis in July of this year, and I apparently had done very well. My work has been included in some other work by Dr. Crandles, so somewhere out there, there is some research with my name included. (Ain't that some shit?)
The completion of my thesis corresponded to the completion of my degree, and as a result, I celebrated my graduation on October 19th.
At some point in between, I had managed to secure myself a lovely girlfriend by the name of Dorothy, who you can see in the above photo. She loves me, for whatever reason, and we have been together for about 2 years.
Now, I am continuing my education, by taking a post-graduate course in Advanced Lasers offered by Niagara College's Welland Campus. It has been...interesting so far. But that is a discussion for another post.
I finished up my first undergraduate degree in Honours Physics at Brock University. I guess in the spirit of this blog, I will give you an update on how well that went.
I spent the vast majority of time in the last couple of years in university doing things like you'd expect an upstanding young man, such as myself to do. I would sleep sporadic hours, become blackout drunk 2 to 3 nights a week, and sitting in the dark the rest of my nights, staring at various versions of brightly lit rectangles.
In spite of being a lazy piece of crap, in my 4th academic year of university; I had chosen to undertake a thesis in Optical Spectroscopy, supervised by Dr.David Crandles. For a number of reasons, this project took me about 2 years to finish, as opposed to the usual 8 months allowed for an undergraduate research project. Thankfully, Dr. Crandles is a very understanding man, and allowed me to take my time, so I could finish my thesis and be able to graduate. I presented my thesis in July of this year, and I apparently had done very well. My work has been included in some other work by Dr. Crandles, so somewhere out there, there is some research with my name included. (Ain't that some shit?)
The completion of my thesis corresponded to the completion of my degree, and as a result, I celebrated my graduation on October 19th.
Handsome, right?
At some point in between, I had managed to secure myself a lovely girlfriend by the name of Dorothy, who you can see in the above photo. She loves me, for whatever reason, and we have been together for about 2 years.
Now, I am continuing my education, by taking a post-graduate course in Advanced Lasers offered by Niagara College's Welland Campus. It has been...interesting so far. But that is a discussion for another post.
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