I've been in a bit of a funk this week, for reasons that don't bear talking about, and everything in blogdom has seemed indescribably tedious: the same boring people having the same stupid arguments over and over, with no end in sight. And don't get me started on politics.
In an effort to shake myself out of this, I've been poking around with Technorati, and stumbled across Confused at a Higher Level, a blog by a physics professor at Carleton. It's familiar material to me-- he even started there the same year I started here-- but he's got some good thoughts on physics, teaching, and academia.
Go take a look.
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Hey Chad, thanks for the plug!
Haha, when I first read that I noted "ah! Carleton! my brother goes there!" (not in physics). When I went to the blog I discovered that in fact there are _two_ Carletons, one is a college in northern Minnesota, and the one I am familiar with, Carleton University in Ottawa