As my days in this wonderful city draw to a close I am filled with many emotions. I love this place. I fully intend to live here once again in the near future. New York is an amazing city and anyone who hasn't been here should come post haste. No where else could I walk out of my door and have only a short walk to so many things to do.
I've made so many wonderful friends. Everyone in this program is incredibly intelligent and so much fun to be around. It's nice to have conversations with people my age that do not have anything to do with celebrities or pop culture. It's not often that one is surrounded by so many splendid and eclectic personalities at one time. I've made friends that I hope to keep in touch with for always.
I've also made quite a few discoveries about myself. Academia is the field for me. I can say this with confidence. I fully intend to get a phd in geoscience. Hopefully more specific to meteoritics, as I have fallen in love with rocks that fall from the sky. As an undergrad in geology I am constantly told to look at the ground I walk on, but never to look to the sky. So many questions hang above our heads, stuck up into the stars, that we never even think about. I hope to pluck a few of them down in my time and chizzle away at some answers.
Several things have become quite apparent to me:
*I must travel. Everywhere. As much as I possibly can.
*I must learn new languages. As many as I possibly can.
*I need to read. A lot. As much as I possibly can.
*Television is disgusting. With the exception of some public programming and of course the discovery channel.
*I really enjoy wine and cheese.
*I hate the metal poles in subway trains.
*Just because I step on a grate in the street does not mean I will fall in.
*I love school.
*I love Central Park.
*I love museums.
*I love ethnic foods.
*Etc.. etc... etc... as much as I possibly can.
Of course I miss home. I miss my family and my friends and grass that was not planted with the soul purpose of breaking up concrete. I'm glad I can go home and hopefully have two weeks of actual summer time when I can just be lazy and relax.
My presentation went well and I really enjoyed giving my talk to the museum staff and other interns. It was a great feeling of accomplishment that everything has fallen together in the last few days. The hard work paid off and now I've got some rather astounding results. My paper is underway and hopefully will be finished by late August... but let's not get ahead of ourselves...
I hope everyone reading this has had a summer as wonderful as I. I hope that if you haven't had a summer so wonderful that you may take this as a wake up call. If you don't love life than you are doing something incorrectly. You need to make a change, because there are so many things in this world to love. I suggest you up and move to New York for a few months, as this is one of the best experiences I've ever had. You need to leave Kentucky, or wherever you may be situated, and get a breath of fresh air.
And with that I end my ramblings.
Love,
Chelsea
e enjte, 2 gusht 2007
e enjte, 26 korrik 2007
An ode
I'm slowly making headway in the battle to finish on time.
Slowly but surely.
I expect many things to fall into place tomorrow.
Oh how I am going to miss this city and the wonderful pizzerias on every corner.
Where else can you find so many things on one island?
I've really enjoyed my time here. The people. The sites. The sounds. The food. The fun.
This city is amazing.
Slowly but surely.
I expect many things to fall into place tomorrow.
Oh how I am going to miss this city and the wonderful pizzerias on every corner.
Where else can you find so many things on one island?
I've really enjoyed my time here. The people. The sites. The sounds. The food. The fun.
This city is amazing.
e diel, 22 korrik 2007
Coney Island
Yesterday a few of my friends and I trucked on over to Coney Island for the siren music festival. It was so much fun! I saw loads of great bands, the most note worthy of which being White Rabbits and Elvis Perkins. It was a great time to be around all of the old fashioned amusement park rides. We mozied on down the boardwalk as well and spent the better part of sunset on the beach making sand sculptures. Although I have to admit I was disappointed with the hotdogs! As you may or may not know I don't eat meat (ok, I eat fish) and have not eaten meat in quite some time. I was so excited to have a real Coney that I broke my vegetarianism for a day and had one from Nathan's which is where they hold the hot dog eating contest every year. And it wasn't very good! Ah well. It was a beautiful day full of beautiful music and no writing of paper.
It was a good break from last week.
Until next time....
Chelsea
It was a good break from last week.
Until next time....
Chelsea
e premte, 20 korrik 2007
Moon.
I was curious whether or not our moon had some sort of technical name aside from "the moon," as other planet's moons bear this distinction and ours does not seem to. The answer to this question is plainly stated as yes, the moon has a name. It is Moon with a capital M.
lame.
I think we should name the moon. Or at the very least give it some sort of prefix.
"Mr. Moon".
And my paper is well underway. I was surprised that once I started it I had an easy time keeping the juices flowing. I've got a few pages now and they are constantly growing. Woohoo!
lame.
I think we should name the moon. Or at the very least give it some sort of prefix.
"Mr. Moon".
And my paper is well underway. I was surprised that once I started it I had an easy time keeping the juices flowing. I've got a few pages now and they are constantly growing. Woohoo!
e enjte, 19 korrik 2007
tortuous \TOR-choo-us\, adjective: marked by repeated turns and bends
I seem to have lost quite a bit of gusto since the last time I updated this page.
Today was rather awful as my list of items lost to the city is steadily growing larger (and more expensive).
This is quite out of character. I am generally an organized person and I hardly ever lose anything..
To recap, the city has consumed the following possessions as of 7/19/07:
*new camera ~$400
*2gb flash drive ~$30
*unlimited 30 day Metrocard ~$76
The most recent of which being the metrocard, which is pretty unfortunate. The museum pays me back for transportation costs, but not for card falling out of pocket costs. There is a balance protection service offered by MTA but it is equal to $2.53/day for the rest of the time the 30 day card was to be active. So I'm out for at least half of my subway rides, if not more, because rides are 2 bucks a pop and I tend to ride the subway 2-4 times a day. I've written a letter begging for sympathy in purchasing a new unlimited pass, but somehow I doubt it will be given the time of day.
The end of my time here is looming in the not so distant future (T minus two weeks) and I'm starting to get pretty nervous. I don't have any results per se... Just a lot of unanalyzed data. Today I acquired two high school students to help me with the really tedious parts of my research which is amazing. I was looking some very sleepless nights in the face until that happened. It was a really fun experience to sit there and teach them what I know about meteorites because I didn't think it was much until that happened. It made me feel smart. Denton turned down another request to examine somebody's "meteorwrong" (some sort of strange rock someone picked up and thinks is a meteorite but never is). He looked at me and said "Well I should have just sent you down there to examine it!" and he wasn't joking. Hah.
I've got to churn out a draft of my paper by tomorrow but I just can't get myself started. I have never really written a paper like this before and I'm pretty intimidated. I shouldn't be, but I can't help it. We're planning to submit it to the journal Meteoritics and maybe one other journal, not sure yet. I'm going to be the author on the paper which is pretty scary as my job in this project is to refute Hap McSween's 1977 paper. He did pretty much the same thing I am doing now and it has not been touched since even though technology has progressed leaps and bounds since then. He is pretty much one of the big dogs in meteoritics land.
Needless to say it is going to be a long night.
Good night,
Chelsea
Today was rather awful as my list of items lost to the city is steadily growing larger (and more expensive).
This is quite out of character. I am generally an organized person and I hardly ever lose anything..
To recap, the city has consumed the following possessions as of 7/19/07:
*new camera ~$400
*2gb flash drive ~$30
*unlimited 30 day Metrocard ~$76
The most recent of which being the metrocard, which is pretty unfortunate. The museum pays me back for transportation costs, but not for card falling out of pocket costs. There is a balance protection service offered by MTA but it is equal to $2.53/day for the rest of the time the 30 day card was to be active. So I'm out for at least half of my subway rides, if not more, because rides are 2 bucks a pop and I tend to ride the subway 2-4 times a day. I've written a letter begging for sympathy in purchasing a new unlimited pass, but somehow I doubt it will be given the time of day.
The end of my time here is looming in the not so distant future (T minus two weeks) and I'm starting to get pretty nervous. I don't have any results per se... Just a lot of unanalyzed data. Today I acquired two high school students to help me with the really tedious parts of my research which is amazing. I was looking some very sleepless nights in the face until that happened. It was a really fun experience to sit there and teach them what I know about meteorites because I didn't think it was much until that happened. It made me feel smart. Denton turned down another request to examine somebody's "meteorwrong" (some sort of strange rock someone picked up and thinks is a meteorite but never is). He looked at me and said "Well I should have just sent you down there to examine it!" and he wasn't joking. Hah.
I've got to churn out a draft of my paper by tomorrow but I just can't get myself started. I have never really written a paper like this before and I'm pretty intimidated. I shouldn't be, but I can't help it. We're planning to submit it to the journal Meteoritics and maybe one other journal, not sure yet. I'm going to be the author on the paper which is pretty scary as my job in this project is to refute Hap McSween's 1977 paper. He did pretty much the same thing I am doing now and it has not been touched since even though technology has progressed leaps and bounds since then. He is pretty much one of the big dogs in meteoritics land.
Needless to say it is going to be a long night.
Good night,
Chelsea
e hënë, 16 korrik 2007
No survivors
I would like to take a minute to congratulate myself for staying at work past 6 o' clock this evening. Today I kicked butt and took names in my research. Take that, Adobe Illustrator. No prisoners! I will finish this initial paper draft. Huzzah.
e diel, 15 korrik 2007
Chelsea = Cameraless
So I lost my brand new digital camera last night on Columbia campus. I've spent lots of today sluething around the local lost and founds to no avail. Goodbye, sweet camera, I loved you so. It was a short time we knew each other, but you served me well. I'd like to think I'll see you again someday...
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