Sometimes..
Sometimes I get 4 paragraphs in on a retort to someone on the internet. Then I stop and ask my self “What’s the point?” delete it, and go about my day.
Holy shit, my physics teacher did this
Sounds like a bonus extra credit question. I had a professor in my engineering statics class that would do that. Once she gave us a hint. The bonus question, #10 asked where she got her undergrad degree at. the answer was C) Tennessee. The hint she gave was Ten-is-C.
She thought she was hilarious.
IT’s official
Last finals taken, last papers turned in, i’ve walked the stage.
I am the newest Bachelor of Science holder in Physics, and I think the first person to graduate from my school with the applied physics option!
Our Sun is immensely, unfathomably powerful.
The effect shown in the gif is called gravitational lensing.
What is gravitational lensing?
Gravitational lensing is the effect seen when an object behind a massive object is in the line of sight with the earth. For example:
Earth ————>Massive Object—————->Far away object
When we try looking at the far away object, the massive object bends space-time around it, causing the light rays from the far away object to travel in a curved path around into our line of sight.
As a result of this, we can often see the far away object magnified which helps astronomers understand the early universe. The gif shows a far away galaxy being gravitationally lensed by a closer black hole.
I could watch this for hours.
Just finished my last final…
..of my undergraduate career. Even if I fail it, I will still get at least a C in the class. C is pass. C is a degree. That’s a good feeling.
Woot!
Nostalgia
only 5K … neat, guess us older folk are scarce here on tumblr
I still have nightmares about the last two jfc
(Source: 90s90s90s)
Anonymous asked: Stay strong. You have much to be proud of :)
Thank you! Your comment was very much appreciated!
screw you.
I graduate next weekend. This is really exciting for me. It is exciting because it has taken me 13 years. 13 years. Over the course of that 13 years, I spent 5 in the military. I joined the military because after my first year in school I realized I couldn’t afford it.
So I joined. I deployed to pay for school. I got shot out, blown up, lost good friends to pay for school. I spent 4 months performing 1-2 funerals a day 6 days a week on a rifle squad line and playing taps to pay for school. I tore my rotator cuff breaking down a door in Iraq, and had part of the ac in my shoulder removed to pay for school.
When I got out of the military, I went back to school. During that time I had a divorce, two custody battles, bouts with ptsd, death of family members and friends, significant others diagnosed with debilitating and ultimately terminal diseases, and through it all I continued going to school. Didn’t always do my best, but I never quit, or gave up.
The fact that I was going to school was used against me in my custody hearing. The fact that I actually have to work while going to school was used against me. The fact that I am trying to better my self so that I can provide the best possible for my son, was used in the case that ultimately resulted in my time with my son reducing from %50 of the time to 6 days a month.
I literally in every sense possible sacrificed sweat, tears, and blood to go to school.
So when you tell me that your life doesn’t just fall in place like mine does. When you tell me that I am lucky that I’m graduating. When you call me a jerk because I will have a degree while you struggle without. When you find any way to take responsibility for my success.
Fuck. You.
This is some of my work, 3-d Modeling and rendering the experimental setup I helped create and design in my directed study course on superconductivity.
I won’t bore you with the details of the experiment, but don’t my graphics look perty?
