The Prodigal Physicist
My relationship with journalism began innocently enough. I needed an extracurricular activity to round me out. Too many right angles in physics, it would seem. So I wrote a story about an anti-Big Tobacco seminar that happened on campus.
By the time I got my B.S. in physics from Stony Brook University four and a half years later, I was also the editor of the school’s fortnightly alternative paper, The Stony Brook Press, and I had just filed the articles of incorporation for the Suffolk Standard Publishing Corporation. While my penchant for particles persisted, over the next year I launched then crashed a monthly newspaper in Suffolk County and applied to journalism school for my masters degree.
Last week I finished my second of three semesters at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and next week I start a full-time internship at the Courier Life Bay News in Brooklyn. I love journalism and I am excited to earn my masters, but thoroughly rounded and picking up speed, I feel I may have rolled off course. I need to get back to Squaresville.
The purpose of The Prodigal Physicist page is to chronicle my next move: an M.S. in physics. I’m going to use this blog to track my progress toward and past the GRE physics subject test and then through the application process to graduate school.
It’ll keep me on schedule — something I’m notoriously inept at — and become a handy study guide for me as test time approaches and hopefully others scouring the Internet for insight into fundamental physical phenomena.
Any input, criticism, questions or participation of any kind from readers passing through would be more than welcome. Here goes…