American Institute of Physics

Suckers, Nobels, and the Sweep of History

Monday, July 22, 2019

Jeremiah O'Mahony

The editor wanted an excel sheet with every Nobel Prize winner’s name, their seminal paper, and the year that paper was published. “This looks like a job for an intern,” he chuckled.

I laughed along with the editor’s joke, wondering what poor sucker would get that job. Then I noticed everyone’s eyes on me. Hey, I thought. I’m an intern. A beat, and then: I’m the sucker.

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Week 8: I'm sweating

Sunday, July 21, 2019

Catherine Ryan

The blurbs are edited, formatted, and under edits again! Because editing is important! The photos are all collected! They are emailed off to Melonnie! I get really excited and then I remember I still have the third case to research and design!

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Week Eight: Melting

Sunday, July 21, 2019

Samantha Staskiewicz

I'm not ready to leave DC.

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Week 7: Guess I’m a library geek now

Friday, July 19, 2019

Catherine Ryan

Welp, it's Friday of week 8 and I still haven’t posted about week 7. Not that I didn’t try it was just a very big week. We visited Capitol Hill and NASA last week. What more could a science policy nerd like myself love more?

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Week Seven: Politics, Space, and Home

Monday, July 15, 2019

Samantha Staskiewicz

This blog post will now come to order.

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Old Sayings and New Impressions

Monday, July 15, 2019

Jeremiah O'Mahony

One of those old, attributed-to-everyone adages about reporting goes: “Journalism is what somebody else doesn’t want you to print. The rest is advertising.” And then, there’s science writing.

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Week 6: A Looonnnggg Weekend

Monday, July 8, 2019

Catherine Ryan

It was a productive three days of work this past week. I got my list of important black hole related events complete and I have most of the blurbs done. I’ve also collected all the images I think I will need for the exhibit cases here on the third floor.

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Gratitude

Monday, July 8, 2019

Anna Perry

Before this internship, my whole life was spent in rural areas. This means I had never had access to public transportation, or to the large array of social and political events on constant rotation in major cities.

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Week Six: Bucket Hats and Buckets of Rain

Sunday, July 7, 2019

Samantha Staskiewicz

I'm having weird childhood flashbacks. 

I can hear the music now. It's 8pm, I'm 4 years old, grabbing my favorite stuffed animal, pulling the top of his hat and the music starts playing.

You're probably thinking, what is this girl referring to? Is she crazy?

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Week 5: This week I read

Tuesday, July 2, 2019

Catherine Ryan

Early in the week, I handed off my teaching guide to Greg for final edits! So I've started on to my next project, the exhibit cases! I’ve decided on doing the cases here on the third floor about the history of our knowledge of black holes. I’m really excited about it.

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