I'm in charge of the senior major seminar, in which we have the senior physics and astronomy majors meet once a week to talk about topics of interest to them. I've also been making them give short "progress reports" on their thesis research projects. Last week, one of my students was tapped for a progress report, and started out by saying:
As I'm sure you know, in the Orzel lab, we're in the business of creating dreams. Sort of like Disneyland.
I wonder if I could get that on business cards?
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