Friday, October 24, 2014
"Physics was Paradise"
Melissa is an experimental particle physicist at Harvard University and has placed her mark as the first ever women to gain tenure there for the physics department. Needless to say, Melissa is an extremely well achieved woman. Coming from a background that lacked motivation and goals, she eventually found her way from an idea of writing and philosophy to her paradise of physics. However, the interview itself was more specific then the broad topic of her life. It seemed to flow question by question in some sort of order that the answers lined up chronologically. Each answer to the question led to the next smoothly. Starting with her young educational background, she was a high school dropout who joined a free school. She learned from the community members and only what they know, as she focused on a life of writing and philosophy much like her parents. Each question evenly stacked on top of each other, like boxes, until the box labeled physics first appeared. After the introduction of physics in her life and the appearance of that in the interview, that became the main focus of the interviewer. The interviewer asked if Melissa had known then and there that she was going to be a physicist. It wasn't, in fact, the only reason she had chose physics was because people said she had to become a writer. The rebel in her showed up and she chose the polar opposite, physics, leading to her new found journey at the University of Toronto. Leading from one to the next, she found her way through Fermi Labs, Stanford, California Berkeley, and then to Harvard. Diving into her physics career, the interviewer honed in on the subject to get a good vision then. Every detail that related to her life with physics was asked about. The interviewer worked through each stage in her career, comparing the modern ideas to then like feminism, harassment, and anything else she may have encountered. Working up to the present day, the interview became more and more into her career today. What she did, where at, what the new experiment was, anything that relates to her accomplishments present day. This interview started broad being just about Melissa's life. When physics was uncovered, things changed. The interview became more coned shaped so to speak. It started broad with her initial impact from physics and continued specifying in chronological fashion, but through questions. Once present day came to the point of the cone, the specific were bombarded with questions about the here and now. Each question lead up to this point, and through only physics, we learned who Melissa Franklin is.
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