The current situation

To let you know what the status is, and what I'm going to be preoccupying myself with in the months leading up to grad school:

I am currently enrolled in the Part III Maths (Theoretical Physics) program at the University of Cambridge, entering the final term. As part of finishing this up, I am writing an essay on cosmological inflation, due May 1st, and preparing for five exams, end of May/start of June.

At the end of June I will fly home, and then start making general preparations for the move to Madison. This will, of course, include finding an apartment, settling in, and all the essential running around that comes with moving to a new place and starting school.

Consequently, over the next few months there will most likely not be much on here concerning the life of a new graduate student, but I will try to find ways of entertaining nonetheless.

A little bit about me.

I am a 23 year old physics student, about to start my physics PhD at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. The purpose of this blog is to relate a little bit of what it's like, transitioning from the world of studies into the world of research, documenting the sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll lifestyle that we have all come to associate with being a physicist.

At the same time, I want to put forward of few of my ideas of what I think about physics, and science in general, and how these relate to the world. I aim to do this in a number of ways, including talking about policy, art, community, etc.

This is the inital focus of the blog, but of course I'll let it take off in whatever direction it feels like running. So, like Mr. Rogers, I invite you all in to switch your shoes from the outside pair to the inside pair, and we'll see where our imagination takes us.

Start

I am once again beginning a blog, one that I hope will be maintained more permanently than my previous attempts.

I will post more in a couple of days about myself and the blog's purpose. I could do so now, but I think spreading things out a little bit will help me practice getting into the habit of posting.