Optics In Paris

I haven’t done any crazy science yet - this week was all paperwork and travel. Here’s the week in 5 snapshots! I picked up a kids toy when he dropped it in on the metro and he said “merci.” It was adorable. And my only successful interaction in French so far I ate the prettiest gelato ever - they make little flowers with gelato here. I keep stumbling into historic monuments on accident. It’s fun to live in such and old place! Another student in my group taught me how to Ollie on her skateboard (I’m as surprised as you are) I’m on floor 7 in our building a cité universitaire … and our elevator is broken. I’ll be ready for a marathon of stairs by the time I’m finished here

We had a week in Ann Arbor to get to know others students and get ready for our work in Paris. Highlights of week one in Michigan: Learning to Skateboard with Sarah  Trying to fit all eight of us into elevators between optics crash courses  Hologram R2D2 Lab   I totally underestimated the time it would take to finish a summary video of what I think I will be doing once I get to Paris, but here is the final result! I'll have to figure out a way to do it faster eventually... but here is what I've got so far!