Hi, my name is Lotta and I stay in the suburb Lemont near Chicago for eight weeks to do an internship at the Argonne National Laboratory (ANL). Indeed it isn't an accident that I spent my holidays here - I participate in the DAAD program RISE and was matched with the ANL nanotechnology division, that means that I will work on a certain type of microscope observing nanomagnetic structures. Oh, and I usually study Physics at a German university.
A Physicist's Arriving - 07-28-13
I don't want to call it boring, but we slipped through the passport check and the baggage claim within an hour (even if it is rumoured that you need three hours since Boston). Still there was enough time to have a little chat with the controlling officer who asked where I was going to work and if I belonged to this "physicist kind of people". I answered and had to smile; his response was a knowing "Aaaah!".