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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 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 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 [...]
April 9 by Sophia Muller
A Pox on My House
If you’ve been in the Ottawa-area, chances are you, or someone you know, may have been infected by it. And no, I’m not referring to the “Juno-fever” that gripped this city; rather, a very nasty –and persistent- cough. This cough literally took me out of commission for two weeks, and had the worst symptoms I’ve [...]
April 6 by Ross Cheriton
A post-Master’s defence blog
Last Monday was my defence date! I think it went well (I passed, haha). I think I’ve never been so nervous during a presentation, and I don’t usually get that nervous. I was very comfortable during the round of questions though. I was surprised that the defence presentation is only supposed to be 10 minutes [...]
April 5 by Maria-Hélèna Pacelli
On the importance of gratitude
Now that I’ve completed my final dissertation, I await final approval from my second reader. Don’t get me wrong, I almost cried tears of joy when my advisor signed the form to approve my project for my second reader. I was thrilled to get that in by the deadline, very grateful that after countless revisions [...]
April 1 by Denis Giroux
A Small Victory
It is already April 1st, the semester is nearly over, and it still seems as if the amount of work I’ve been doing in the past few weeks have been quantitatively paying off. I feel as if I have just as much to do in the days and weeks ahead than I used to a [...]
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