I just wanted to congratulate you as well…it is no small achievement that you have created for yourself and it is a wonderful start to your future. We are sooooo happy for you, well done! Don’t worry about the talks in front of loads of people, I did that too in front of doctors and specialists when I had to talk about sub-cranial haematomas, and I had only researched the topic for about a week…and they asked questions…but luckily I knew the answers and looked very clever which I thought was the biggest joke ever, since I actually had absolutely NO clue what I was talking about…ha ha. At least you know your stuff! I feel sure this is just the beginning of a wonderful career and a very happy life for you and your future wife…Love Julia X
I’d consider that a fair trade for “partially” trained skill labor that has only been on the job for a few months. Well done. Sounds to me as though you need start learning how to use Powerpoint for those presentations and draw all of those “nifty” little graphs and pictures everyone will be wanting to see. This is a long way from Best Buy.
Here are a few more “perks”…
You live in one of the best cities in the US.
Attend one of the best colleges in the US.
You’re surrounded by people that speak the same language.
You might be in over you head but there is someone there to keep you from drowning.
You get to put “fellowship award” on your CV.
You get the respect of those you work with.
You are doing something you love.
There are many more “perks”. This is great Michael. I am very excited for you. By the way, I was thinking… you could research the everyday use of quantum statistical dynamics by the indigenous inhabitants of Cyprus. Greeks use the same symbols you do all the time… in their grocery lists… and they are always shopping for PI and go out on Friday’s to the Theta… you could go to the Zeno stadium not far from here… AND there is a lot of entropy here too.
Thanks everyone, I love you all too. So now that I’ve actually won the fellowship, I can talk about “the perks” and what I have to do for “the perks”. The perks include things like: They pay my tuition (which just went up to a ridiculous 46,000 a year, wtf?!?!) and give me an annual stipend of 30,000 (6,000 more than I used to get paid), I can buy whatever computer I want, I get 1000 dollars in traveling expenses per year (for conferences, not for vacation), and I don’t have to teach organic chemistry anymore (this fact alone is fantastic). The things I have to do for it include: 2 extra research projects, one has to be completely outside my field of research (I’m thinking particle physics, but we’ll see) and the other is a 2 month internship with the research being research in my field (which if you don’t know, my research field is quantum statistical dynamics). I consider the intership to be a “perk” as well because you can do this internship anywhere in the world and they pay for it, on top of what they already pay me for a stipend. Other things I have to do: take some extra classes (I was already planning on taking these classes), go to meetings and give talks about what I’m doing, and once a year I’m supposed to go present my research at a National or International Conference of my choosing(this is what the 1000 dollars is for). That last one is somewhat intimidating because you have to give a talk in front of hundreds of scientists from all over the world and/or country and when you’re done, they all ask you a bunch of questions…I’ll live though, it’s only once a year. So that’s pretty much the story with the fellowship…not exactly free money, but I thought it was a pretty good deal…
S = -k Σ Pi ln Pi
A lot of entropy in Cyprus? Is Cyprus in disorder and disarray?
Hi Michael,
I just wanted to congratulate you as well…it is no small achievement that you have created for yourself and it is a wonderful start to your future. We are sooooo happy for you, well done! Don’t worry about the talks in front of loads of people, I did that too in front of doctors and specialists when I had to talk about sub-cranial haematomas, and I had only researched the topic for about a week…and they asked questions…but luckily I knew the answers and looked very clever which I thought was the biggest joke ever, since I actually had absolutely NO clue what I was talking about…ha ha. At least you know your stuff! I feel sure this is just the beginning of a wonderful career and a very happy life for you and your future wife…Love Julia X
I’d consider that a fair trade for “partially” trained skill labor that has only been on the job for a few months. Well done. Sounds to me as though you need start learning how to use Powerpoint for those presentations and draw all of those “nifty” little graphs and pictures everyone will be wanting to see. This is a long way from Best Buy.
Here are a few more “perks”…
There are many more “perks”. This is great Michael. I am very excited for you. By the way, I was thinking… you could research the everyday use of quantum statistical dynamics by the indigenous inhabitants of Cyprus. Greeks use the same symbols you do all the time… in their grocery lists… and they are always shopping for PI and go out on Friday’s to the Theta… you could go to the Zeno stadium not far from here… AND there is a lot of entropy here too.
- just a thought
Thanks everyone, I love you all too. So now that I’ve actually won the fellowship, I can talk about “the perks” and what I have to do for “the perks”. The perks include things like: They pay my tuition (which just went up to a ridiculous 46,000 a year, wtf?!?!) and give me an annual stipend of 30,000 (6,000 more than I used to get paid), I can buy whatever computer I want, I get 1000 dollars in traveling expenses per year (for conferences, not for vacation), and I don’t have to teach organic chemistry anymore (this fact alone is fantastic). The things I have to do for it include: 2 extra research projects, one has to be completely outside my field of research (I’m thinking particle physics, but we’ll see) and the other is a 2 month internship with the research being research in my field (which if you don’t know, my research field is quantum statistical dynamics). I consider the intership to be a “perk” as well because you can do this internship anywhere in the world and they pay for it, on top of what they already pay me for a stipend. Other things I have to do: take some extra classes (I was already planning on taking these classes), go to meetings and give talks about what I’m doing, and once a year I’m supposed to go present my research at a National or International Conference of my choosing(this is what the 1000 dollars is for). That last one is somewhat intimidating because you have to give a talk in front of hundreds of scientists from all over the world and/or country and when you’re done, they all ask you a bunch of questions…I’ll live though, it’s only once a year. So that’s pretty much the story with the fellowship…not exactly free money, but I thought it was a pretty good deal…
Michael ..that is great!! I’m also very proud of you!!!
We all love you and know that you will do your best to obtain all of your goals in life.
Love you!!
I heard – that’s really great! … “Tell us Michael, now that you’ve won the fellowship what are you going to do now?”
Yipee!
For my little brother! Congratulations Michael…I really didn’t doubt it for a minute. You really do deserve it!
I love you!