Employment??

There were some who questioned if it would ever happen. There were others who speculated that I would remain an unemployed, starving student for the rest of my pitiful existence, hateful of practicality

Evidently, I am still a student. I probably still come off as hating practicality too. But I am indeed employed. Actually employed: not some fake internship with a stipend or cold fusion mumbo jumbo. I work for Professor Blucher's research group, which is participating in the Chooz experiment to study neutrino oscillations. They are currently building a prototype for the muon vetoing system that will surround a neutrino detector. There is a undergraduate working on his senior thesis whom I am helping to build the prototype and soon take measurements. The ultimate goal of the experiment is to measure the parameters of neutrino oscillations more precisely. This has various implications, notably for understanding CP violation, which is sort of how I became involved in all of this. It seems like a really cool project so far.