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May 1 by Ross Cheriton
Extreme Photonics Summer School (minus the summer weather)
Today marks my first day of as a PhD student. I’ve just signed my acceptance letter into the PhD program in Physics and I start in May (which is today!). This is a great victory for me as I worked my way through the hoops of the application process as quick as I could. After [...]
April 30 by Maria-Hélèna Pacelli
The final push
Despite my best efforts to submit my paper and get final approval by the end of this semester, it looks like I’m going to be a graduate student a tiny bit longer still. At this point, I’ve come to accept that my graduate experience is not the one that most students go through. Indeed, it [...]
April 29 by Denis Giroux
The Final Word: A Reward
I was on the bus to Montreal, more than halfway to what was my first destination, and I was disturbed by what proved to be an insoluble dilemma. Since he was so close and I had a direct line of vision to him, I was looking at the little child who, as he had been [...]
April 27 by Val Tweedle
This is the end…
Wow, it’s hard to believe that an entire school year has already passed. It seems like just yesterday I was introducing myself and my project and now here I am with an 140-page thesis sitting in front of me (I know, it’s a ridiculously long thesis – you don’t need to tell me!) Now it’s [...]
April 24 by Sophia Muller
Summer’s Ambition
As things start to slow down, and the campus starts to grow sparse with students but rich with greenery, the university becomes a very different place. With it, summer brings a sense a renewal; it’s when I’m most likely to work on my “New Year’s resolutions”. This past academic year has been a hectic one, [...]
April 20 by Sophia Muller
Superpower Politics: Heroes, Gender and Popculture
This past week I’ve been engrossed by much of the “buzz” around the Charter. It’s been wonderful to see my area of research be thrust into the media spotlight, and it seems like everywhere I turn there is another conference, speech or debate about the significance of the Charter over these past thirty years. Although [...]
April 17 by Val Tweedle
Extra-Curricular Activities!
How grade 5 does that sound? Let’s go do some extra-curricular activities! Let’s be honest, it sounds like I should have piggy-tails in my hair and be getting on the yellow school bus to take me home from school. Nevertheless, I think extra-curricular activities are awesome! Maybe that’s because I don’t have the most [...]
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