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I start Physics revison tomorrow. I just wanted to make a post, so that if I don't survive you understand.

Success 2

Charlie Mc Donnell (youtube star) is now promoting this blog!

He's always been uneasy about promoting things on his youtube channel so of course he has been subtle about spreading awareness about me but the recommendation is unavoidable in his most recent video! He most definitely named my blog!

I admit to having to re-watch the video just to hear him say it again and check that 1.He got it right and 2. He remembered the units, which he did - I have now been inspired to always always remember my units now (unless I forget...)

Okay, maybe I just slipped into 'deluded teenage girl' mode... But seriously it's a pretty good physics video - check it out ;) (I do realise 2/3 of my followers already subscribe to Charlie!)

Also I realise I am copying one of my favourite friends and blogger by making a post related to her future husband and so as to remain as true to girl code as possible I have named him her future husband and linked to her post here - (which is also useless because 2/3 of my followers already follow or are her?!) she's great!!

Success!!

I made it into the academy!! It's going to be so great! Now that it is months away I can be excited but I know perfectly well that by at least a week before I go I will be taken over my nerves and not want to go, then I'll get there and hopefully love it so much I don't want to leave! That's what usually happens.. Anyway, back to excitement - I was accepted into the academy!! That sentence is too awesome!!

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We've been doing a bit of particle phyiscs in school recently and my mind is blown. I mean seriously, it's so much to comprehend! On the way to school this morning (for another day of physics!) I caught myself thinking about it and it's so hard to believe! And then the more I thought about it I realised that I actually find it quite hard to imagine there are even atoms but I've had quite a few years to get used to the idea and it seems quite normal to me now. I wonder if one day it will be obvious for fundamental particles to exist with strange (in both senses of the word!) characteristics and forces with invisible exchange particles and everything around us, everything in us to once have been squished into the tiniest space? I hope not. I want it to always be mindboggling and special.

Death by particle Physics

Even though it's the Easter holidays I had to go into school today and do physics for 6 hours! We were doing fundamental particles, big bang and then space stuff which would have been awesome except it was so much my brain hurt! So I got home and went straight to sleep which was probably a bad idea because I had the worst nightmare where I was drowning in an ocean of fundamental particles, they were scratching my throat and making me gag! It felt so real!! The worst part is that I couldn't understand what they were!! Physics is really starting to get to me?!

You will not believe this!

As further proof of the excitment of my life something awesome happened today!

So we were in class and my physics teacher asked how many pencils I had. I think he was showing me that I needed at least three and was expecting me to not have enough. I was expecting not to have enough. However I began to count. He began to wish he had asked someone else. I proceeded to count out 12 traditional and mechanical pencils. The class was stunned into silence.

Then, when forced to guess how many pencils were in my pencil case 2 put of 3 victims (who werent in my ohysics class) guessed correctly first time!?

But wait - that isn't even the coolest part! On my radio they were just told me that today is actually pencil day :0 today is pencil day! today, the day when I had a major pencil incident!! Actually maybe this is one of those things that seems cooler in my head...

Update on the exciting details of my life! Oh wait..

So things have been pretty ordinary on the physics front... Well, I mean relatively normal compared to some things that could have happened. For example I could have discovered a source of perpetual motion, a superconductor with a critical temperature of 25 degrees Celsius or a method of conducting nuclear fussion on earth without destroying the planet. Actually even compared to eating ice-cream for breakfast my life has been pretty ordinary...

However we did talk about how 'fundamental particles have colour' (except not really because it is a variable property that is more of a way of description rather than a physical description)which has just convinced me further that I might be slightly too sane to actually stand a chance of understanding and contributing to particle physics... Although my sanity has been questioned in the past...

I also have a practical exam in class tomorrow so I should probably do some kind of revision for that now...