My Roommate’s a Doctor!

Major congratulations are in order for my roommate Tim, who passed his PhD dissertation defense with flying colors this morning!! Way to go man! Five of us from PSCG (me, Kerrie, Adrienne, Daryl, Jenn) found our way over to the acoustics department to listen to Tim’s defense, and he did a great job. I knew he had it all but sewn up when at the end of the “public” question time, one of his committee members told all the students in the room that if they wanted to see what a well-written thesis looks like, that they should look up Tim’s 280-page beast (final page count could be higher after some minor corrections though). High praise indeed! To celebrate him passing, tonight a group of us from PSCG went out to dinner at Fuji & Jade Garden, which was fun. It’s always good to show support for friends, especially when they pass certain milestones. So now that Tim’s done with his doctorate, he’ll be moving back to Pullman, Washington, at the end of this month to take a research position in his dad’s acoustics lab at Washington State University (Tim comes from a family of famous acousticians). We’re definitely going to miss you, Tim! So I’ll be living in my apartment sans-roommate for a few months, until, God-willing, Alex is accepted into Penn State and can move out here — in mid-late May, if everything goes well!
Sorry I haven’t put up a post about Arizona yet. I know several of you have been checking back this week to no avail. It was an absolutely amazing week and I have a bunch of pictures from the Grand Canyon in particular, but I’ve been pretty busy in the evenings with getting settled back into the semester and everything else that I have going on, after having been gone for all but a few days since before Christmas break. Arizona stuff will be coming soon, though.