Hey folks. Today was…interesting, to say the least. We began with a normal morning lecture (or as normal as a lecture can get when one of your classmates comes in 90 minutes late because they overslept).
The lecture content itself was also as interesting as always–and by interesting, I mean extremely hard. Luckily, with the 𝓹𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓻 𝓸𝓯 𝓯𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓷𝓭𝓼𝓱𝓲𝓹✨, everyone was able to solve and explain the concepts–even if it took a few hours (thanks Sour).
After morning lectures and a lunch that I missed, it was time for our first guest speaker!!!: Hadari-Sadiki Hubbard-James. He talked about his work in looking for habitable planets through potential K-dwarf host stars. A.k.a. looking for aliens. His presentation was super interesting! And the cool stickers he gave out definitely didn’t hurt. What was even more interesting was the Q&A and reception, where Dr. Hubbard-James patiently and thoroughly answered all of our questions, no matter how irrelevant or confusing. We learned so much from Dr. Hubbard-James! Both about space and habitable planets, and about himself (his favorite movie is Sharknado). I think we ended up overwhelming him a bit with all of our questions (sorry Doc).
Because we had a guest speaker, we ended up going back to the dorms early. So Claire (our TA) held juggling lessons in the Hive!!(the lobby, yk, bug theme, bees, hive? yeah) a bunch of people showed up, including me. Juggling was hard, and I ended up scraping my knees more than once chasing after runaway balls I accidentally threw too far. But I’m not saying Claire was a bad teacher. In fact, she’s an amazing teacher (and an even better juggler)! I learned way more about how to juggle than I expected.
I was so caught up in juggling that I almost forgot to change for dinner. But after a hurried five minutes that involved skirts, flies, and ripped-up cardboard, we made it to dinner–where we were reminded that Tide Pods are for washing clothes, not for eating (even if they’re strawberry-flavored Sai).
After dinner, it was back to the classroom for more physics derivation! (If you can’t tell I’m crying inside right now) Luckily, we have good teachers! (Thanks again, Sour! Aditya was busy writing his own blog post, which hopefully has been published before this one) As I write this post, we are in the middle of explaining Lagrange’s equations.
So thanks for reading, wish us luck!
-Olivia
