Starting
7 months ago
with baby Kittel (yes, it has come to that), and I’m gonna call this goal finished when I can understand all of Grosso… in spite of the translation.
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Live by "Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds"
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Publish all my thesis papers
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Spend one hour per day reviewing solid state theory
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Understand BCS Theory
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Familiarize myself with the phenomenology of the high T_c cuprates and iron pnictides
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1 person |
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Have a successful postdoc experience
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1 person |
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Start playing cello again
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3 people |
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Wave from such great heights
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2 people |
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see the northern lights
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exercise four times a week
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lose weight
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Learn: Farsi
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learn Tai Chi
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with baby Kittel (yes, it has come to that), and I’m gonna call this goal finished when I can understand all of Grosso… in spite of the translation.
I got the thesis receipt yesterday. In the eyes of the Institute, I am done. The feeling is one that I haven’t had in years!
I rocked the defense. There is now a champagne bottle on the wall with my name on it. It’s still too surreal to absorb.
All I need to do now is incorporate the second batch of corrections, rewrite the abstract, redo a figure and that’s that: I finished my PhD.