Caltech
| I flew out to California to visit some friends and talk to some professors at various physics grad schools. This was my first experience of physics grad student life in California... |
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| My friend Maribeth from high school told me to meet her and her research group at Hormosa Beach. |
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| Isn't Caltech great!? Every weekend all the grad students hang out at the beach! How could life get any better!? :-) |
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| Here's an excellent picture of their end-of-outing pyramid taken toward the sun. They make pyramids at Caltech! What a wonderful place. |
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| Comedy and Magic - two things I wouldn't mind making a career out of. Both right here in one place in sunny LA. |
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| Of course there had to be more to Caltech grad life than going to the beach. This is a picture of a device constructed and used by Maribeth's research group. This picture may be in some important journal as we speak. |
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| Maribeth in her office with her usual, "Oh god, not another dumb picture of me" expression. |
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| Beginning my tour of campus, this is the Applied Physics building where MB and her group might be found on the off chance they're not at the beach. |
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| Beckman was a big guy at Caltech too, and this auditorium is named in his honor -- The Wedding Cake Building |
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| The library from which I'm told liquid nitrogen filled pumpkins are dropped. |
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| Millikan's big giant head. |
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| Where Prof. Alan Weinstein bought me lunch. Everyone told me I should talk to him before I went, but they didn't mention the prospect of food. :-) |
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| Feynman shat here. |
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