become a physicist

After so many years studying, I passed my exam and I got my degree in Physics! I couldn’t believe it last week when I checked the results, and I think I will take still some time to fully realise that I am not a student any more.

This was really one of the worthiest things I have ever done, and I just hope to be a more useful person now for the rest of the world.

For this entry I choose this sunrise I took from the plane when I was flying between Dublin and Madrid last week. It represents the beginning of a new era for myself.

I have passed my exam on superconductors!! Now I just have to pass my exam on quantum field theory next September and I will get my degree!

This long-term “thing” is related to two more short-term “things”: one about learning superconductivity, and the other about understanding quantum field theory.

Studying physics is like running a marathon, especially if, like me, you have to work full-time while you prepare in your spare time your exams about thermodynamics, your talk about brown dwarves and your reseaches about nuclear physics (and the Nilsson diagrams). I have been doing this while I was eight hours a day at a busy reception of a hotel, or receiving calls from customers of a parfum company, or dealing with the software/hardware problems of students at my university.

I am now at the very last months of this real adventure: I just have to pass two exams to finish, one in June and the other one in September. I am quite a different, stronger, better person now. I learnt how to run marathons (half metaphorically and half literally), how not to be afraid of starting something that might take years to complete, how to motivate myself every single day to go a bit further, and how not to give up when things go wrong.