Yesterday at the talk on going from postdoc to your first tenure track job, the panel warned us not to go do the same thing we did in grad school. This shows your flexibility as a scientist, allegedly making you a abetter candidate. Today, as I watch how the long devotion to kaon physics led to great discoveries about nature, I see a different lesson. The lesson is: if you love a thing, sticking with it brings great suffering, and great reward.
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I am a husband, son, and physicist. I am Research Group Manager in the Research Division at SNOLAB and a Professor of Physics at Queen's University. I like to do a little bit of everything: writing, running, biking, hiking, drumming, gardening, carpentry, computer programming, painting, drawing, eating and sleeping. I earned a Ph.D. in Physics in 2004 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, I love to spend time with my family. All things written in here are my own, unless otherwise attributed.
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