Time to give people updates. As of Monday I’ll be having a badge that says I have limitless access to Brookhaven National Laboratory, where I plan to do my Ph.D work in the Collider Accelerator Physics division. You can find the website here. Thus far, I’ve been shown around by Dr. Vladimir Litvinenko, who runs the show and might be one of the coolest professors I’ve ever met.

This move means that my love of quantum field theory will become peripheral at best, and the energy scale will increase by about nine orders of magnitude. It also means that the number of accelerator physics grad students graduating with me in the entire country can be counted on two hands.  This means the odds of my getting an academic job after I graduate goes through the roof. Which is good. Because I’m too stupid to succeed otherwise.

Anybody who wants to visit me and check out some damn cool physics, just let me know and I can use my mad connections to show off. Most importantly, I’ll be eventually Dr. Webb again, and I’m much happier for it.