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Start of Hong Kong Research Experience
This summer I’m participating in SURP– a research experience program at the Chinese University of Hong Kong- until late August. I have a better idea of the areas I want to work in in the future compared to a year ago (quantum computing has caught my eye) but I’m still happy to get to look…
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Second Year in Review
It’s the end of the academic year, and I’m procrastinating revising classical mechanics (anything’s better than having to look at inertia tensors). I’m sat wondering how I’m half done with university already because, compared to last year, the time passed by incredibly quickly. Maybe it’s some relativistic effect I haven’t learnt about yet? There’s a…
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Internship in Munich
After applying for research internships for months, the rejection emails were starting to stack up, and I’d resigned myself to spending another summer binging a JRPG or two and watching the grass in my garden grow. But at the last minute, my name had the fortune of being dredged out of the depths of a…
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National Student Space Conference 2022
At the start of March, I ventured out of Durham over to London to attend the National Student Space Conference (NSSC), and I’d say it’s been the most exciting thing I’ve done at uni so far! The DU Spaceflight society organised the travel and accommodation, so I didn’t have to think too hard about it…
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PLANCKS 22
In mid-February I participated in an online team-based physics challenge called PLANCKS. If you ever did the UKMT Maths Challenge in school it was kind of like that, but for Physics- the questions were very “out there”- for example, one had us find the area of a mirror that was being used to move a…
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Living Out of College in First Year
“University is the best time of your life”, they tell you, wiping a wistful tear from their eye as they recall time spent cramming for exams with dear comrades in arms, grabbing a takeaway with the boys, and late-night conversations with friends in the intimacy of their bedroom. But before I knew it, the first…
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Physics and Objectivity
Recently, I started learning about quantum mechanics in my degree – finally, the juicy stuff! Waves are acting like particles, particles are acting like waves and light is something noncommittal in between, reminiscent of me flip-flopping between what I should get for dinner. It got me thinking about how our ideas about light have changed…