January 30: Job Choices

I spent this morning at the Kyoto Institute of Technology examining the experiments they have set up to mimic the flow of water over dolphin skin. Their "dolphin" is an erector set contraption and that feels the rush of bright pink "sea water." Going to a lab always gets me so excited about the various things that people can get immersed in -- how much fun for the graduate student who showed me around that he built this, studies it, gets to write papers about it. I felt this way until he told me that it took a full year building his erector-set creature before he could start collecting data.

G-d, I love being a writer.