Today I finally made it to the KiwiLab to inspect the awesome work of one of my SummerStudent fellows… “The Insane Object”.
He (Shaun from New Zealand) made the inpossible possible: talking to his power supplies!
And not just that… he even made a “simulation” of The Final War.
I actually have to admit that this is not the only thing he’s doing in his lab (at least that’s what he says). He claims to do some proper work in addition.
btw
kudos Shaun
One duty of a good experimental physicist is to observe…
But some of my last observations brought up the following question:
“Am I really a physicist?”
To explain this, let me point out my observations…
Following the lectures and looking at some of the students and teachers from all around the world I realized an uncommonly high number of people being left-handed and/or colour-blind???
Since I’m non of it… hmm I don’t know!
The only thing that made me stop quitting the job was the fact that actually most of them are theoreticians… which is something I try to avoid!
So let’s be optimistic and do some work… cu
Finally I got to see some of the cooler things at CERN. Going down the 100m shaft to the LHCb/Delphi detectors, walking through the myon beam tunnel of the COMPASS experiment and seeing this experiment itself, actually gave some touch of reality to the quite theoretical standard model lectures of the last days… (pictures can be found in the gallery). And again it was time for Charly’s on Tuesday (like every week) and another KP (a kitchen parade not held in a kitchen but in a restaurant) called “The Bad Taste Party”… look a the pix and explain it yourself. To add another attraction to the SummerSchool Programm I announced a SKAT (a german card game) competition including teaching lessons for all the newbies that wanna learn the game and join the tournament… I already got my Kiwi-padawan in the game (greetz to Shaun)…yeah!
After my sister left I started the week with a meeting together with my supervisor from Copenhagen University, who had the great idea to put me on the speakers list for a meeting next friday… yeeha. Anyway… so I had to get started with my stuff, which actually worked out after some difficulties. It’s still not enough for a presentation but I’ll figure out…
The weekend was kind of calm… I just spent most of the time sitting around in the sun, went to pubs, enjoyed a firealarm, got stopped by the police (with their hands on their guns…scary french), saw the “Fantastic Four” (which is actually not that fantastic) in cinema and… I dunno. I actually also worked a bit… on a weekend (is that place making me nerdy?)
Now it’s already two weeks since I’m here… in heaven.
And what have I done…? The first week was pretty calm… meaning that I couldn’t really get started because of some administration stuff. But since last Wednesday the real life started.
Usually I have three lectures a day from 9am to 12am and I start doing the real work until around 6pm.
Concerning the social life… summerschool just rules!
We have something alsmost every day/night… pubquiz, toga-party, hiking-tour, football-tournament, …
I had some great fun teaching Skat (a german card-game) to Kiwis and others…
Today my supervisor from Copenhagen arrived and we had a little meeting… where he just decided that I’ll have another little presentation next week… grant!
Anyway… yesterday I was having dinner together with my sister in one of the best places I’ve ever been… we had a big piece of raw beaf on our board and a small flame to grill it ourselves…
In addition to that we could see Geneva and the Mont Blanc out of the restaurant’s windows… quality!
Regarding CERN I actually havn’t seen that many of the really cool places because I’m still waiting for guides and/or access. But the place itself is an adventure… yeah!
btw my room/appartment is very nice… but still, I’m not using it, because I’m hardly there…
actually only to sleep. anyway!
