Archive for December, 2008

Reflections for My Mirror: When the Party’s Over…

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

 
 Well, the semester has finally come to a close. It actually seemed like a short one this fall. I have to say it was certainly an enjoyable one. Having a fairly small class of people that mostly knew each other kept converation flowing and interesting. I feel like most of us are finally coming into [...]

Reflections for My Mirror: Space Case

Monday, December 1st, 2008

I’ve always been interested in astronomy, space, NASA, imagining what lies beyond our wildest imaginations…  In fact, as a kid, I watched Carl Sagan’s Cosmos series in the early 80’s pretty religiously.  My dad was a high school science teacher and my stepmother taught astronomy, so the pursuit of scientific knowledge was certainly encouraged in [...]