(Please don't sue me, Daily Show folks :-( I use the phrase with complete reverence.)
So I applied to a bazillion physics internships for this summer, and, just like two years ago, the first reply I received (last time from Texas Tech, this time from U. Florida) just happened to be the only offer I got. Today I got a response back from CERN, but I didn't make the cut there. Apparently there were 160 students applying for 14 positions (see the title of this post). So tomorrow it looks like I'll be signing on at Florida! I was hoping to work for a German experimental astrophysicist there named Guido Mueller (you read that right) but that didn't work out. I'll be doing theoretical solid state physics instead. Oh well, an internship is an internship, as far as I'm concerned. Dr. Chen said there's no money in astrophysics anyway, so if I want to make a nice living he suggested that I rob banks instead.
I'm almost convinced.
So I applied to a bazillion physics internships for this summer, and, just like two years ago, the first reply I received (last time from Texas Tech, this time from U. Florida) just happened to be the only offer I got. Today I got a response back from CERN, but I didn't make the cut there. Apparently there were 160 students applying for 14 positions (see the title of this post). So tomorrow it looks like I'll be signing on at Florida! I was hoping to work for a German experimental astrophysicist there named Guido Mueller (you read that right) but that didn't work out. I'll be doing theoretical solid state physics instead. Oh well, an internship is an internship, as far as I'm concerned. Dr. Chen said there's no money in astrophysics anyway, so if I want to make a nice living he suggested that I rob banks instead.
I'm almost convinced.
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