When last we left, you saw evidence that I was a boy obsessed with astronomy. It drove my very being. It was the reason for everything I did. It represented the meaning of my life.
Come senior year, I ignored the reality of my GPA and nonetheless plunged into my graduate school applications. Everything looked great. My recommendations. My activities. My GRE scores. Everything except my GPA. Surely, I thought, someone would see it for what really happened. My senior advisor, Professor Pierre Demarque, encouraged me.
I really appreciated Professor Demarque’s confidence in my application process. As my senior advisor, he allowed me to take on a project that other students in other schools might not have had the opportunity to undertake. I was permitted to Continue Reading “The World – The Universe – That Might Have Been… (Part II)”
The Art Of The Segue
My confused hosts shot a quick glance at each other before chiming as one, “What’s segueing?”
A lot had changed in forty years. Apparently more than I thought.
Everything was different—even the location. No longer was it housed in a dilapidated carcass of an old hall with its aging hardwood floors that echoed when you walked on them. Today, the Continue Reading “The Art Of The Segue”