Ph.D. Archive

  • Parenthood Juggle: I Have to Be Me

    In the next few weeks, I will turn 40. I know it is very cliché to have a mid-life crisis at 40, but apparently there is something to it. I guess I have been moving toward this moment from the moment I was born, but […]

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  • Parenthood Juggle: I Never Had to Ask For Permission

    My dad got teary with pride every time; my mom sported her corsage in the colors of whatever institution I was graduating from at the moment.

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  • Parenthood Juggle: Full-time mom/part-time rocket scientist?

    Only since September, when I participated in measuring the noise from a solid rocket motor, have I been able to claim the “rocket scientist” title, but it’s been almost 13 years since I got my Ph.D. in physics and watched my path to part-time physicist […]

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