Beach Pond Diving with Ed [    ]

I had a dive with Ed today at Beach Pond (located at the border of Connecticut and Rhode Island). It is the spawning season of fresh water bass. The bass would find a place to nest. Once they find the place, they will protect it and would not leave. So you can get close to the fish.

The visibility is okay. It's not perfect since the weather is getting warmer. We spotted two bass nesting. There are suposed to be more when it's getting a little bit warmer. But any way, it's a nice dive.

Weiwei posted @ 19:42:08 || Cambridge, MA || Comments (0)

Yale Bulletin Report [Photography]

I am now orgnizing some of the materials related to the photo exhibition. Here is the report from Yale Bulletin. Thanks for Susan Gonzalez writting the story. (full story)

There will be more stuff I am trying to orgnize. I will put it online whenever I get a chance.

Weiwei posted @ 21:46:24 || Cambridge, MA || Comments (0)

I'm Back [General]

I came back from the ceromony and feel extremely exhausted. Everything goes perfectly. Like Eric said - the photo exhibition is a splash! The commencement is wonderful! It's just so encouraging!

I am still trying to orgnize the pictures. Hopefully I will put up several pages for the pictures of the events. I am very behind but I will let you know as soon as I finish it!

Thank you all for the warm and kind help!

Weiwei posted @ 19:59:04 || Cambridge, MA || Comments (0)

Exhibiton On View [Photography]

The exhibition is finally on view in Mason Lobby today. All the pictures look fantastic. Many people dropped by and I am very glad to see them. Hopefully everything will go well! Yale Bulletin covered the story on the front page and put three pictures in the news paper. The story written by Susan is very nice. Many friends will join tomorrow for the presentation - I have to do that well!

Chi and I have been practicing. Interestingly I found talking about the pictures is more difficult than talking about my research slides. You have to add something more beyond the simple discription. But I believe we should be okay.

Weiwei posted @ 08:18:50 || Cambridge, MA || Comments (0)

A Walk to School [General]

It's raining very hard this morning. I need to park my car in the parking lot of my old apartment and walk the way to the school. When I got to the Hillhouse Avenue, I was fasinated by the green color of the trees. The rainy weather make the street so quite. I had been walking on the same street for almost 6 years of my life at Yale. I thought I would not have too many chances to do that after the commencement.

Weiwei posted @ 08:15:18 || New Haven, CT || Comments (0)

Some Updates [General]

Sorry for not updating my journal for a while. In terms of experiments, I got some new results when I almost decided to gave up. I realize that patience is as important as hard work in the research.

I left school and drove to Yale this afternoon. The weather is amazing after days of raining. Everywhere is full of green along the road from Boston to New Haven. Everyone at Yale is busy with moving the lab. Eric is so busy that I even can not get a chance to say Hi. People here ask why I come to Yale so often - well I am doing something important to me, whether or not it's important to you.

I played tennis with Min this afternoon - I haven't played for a while. I will spend a couple of days here in New Haven until next Monday after the commencement. I think the commencement to me is important too - after that I am no longer a student.

Weiwei posted @ 19:01:23 || Cheshire, CT || Comments (0)

First Dive Of The Year [    ]

What a beautiful day today! I joined the check-out dive with Diver's Cove in Fort Wetherill (Jamestown, RI). Chi also came and we dove together. It's wonderful to see the old friends again. Ed, Chris, Mike, Don and Mark are there. We had cookout after the dive.

It's very cold so you can imagine that the water visibility is actually very good. I can say that this is the best dive I have ever had in Fort Wetherill.

Chi told me what he got in a fortune cookie - Your dream should be larger than your fear. Isn't this good?

Weiwei posted @ 20:09:24 || Cambridge, MA || Comments (0)

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Research VS. Photography [Thoughtful]

Last week when I was interviewed by Yale Bulletin, Susan asked me the question of how I started my 'scientist career' (even I never have the idea that I am a scientist). This brought me the memory of many years ago when I was in middle school, Shenshen, Rui and I were so obssessed with chemistry that we even set up a chemistry lab at home. We are lucky to be able to choose what we love to do afterwards, especially in China where education is tremendously competitive. We all end up having our Ph.D in US after these many years.

A friend of mine recently reminds me of the possible 'negative' effect of the coming photo exhibition to my future academia career. Are taking nature pictures and doing science really incompatible? I keep asking myself how much fun is there in research? And this is why the above very old story came back to my mind.

Recenly I read blog of a friend. He recently had a master degree and became a chemist in a small company in New Jersey. The work is easy and he is planning to buy a house. At the end of his blog, he said 'the life is damn good'. I can help but ask myself - what is the last time I said 'life is damn good'?

Many many moments of I took pictures in the field came to my mind. And I realize those moments not only gave me joy and valuable memory but also gave me strength to tackle the difficulties in research. I still remember a dive in West Palm Beach. After I surfaced, it was pouring and the boat was far far way, just in the size of a match box. I filled my safety sausage and then started to review the turtle shots I just had 60 feet below. What surrouding me were shouting storm and 5 feet surf. And I said - life is damn good!

I told Susan that in the research I am a photographer too - taking pictures of atoms on the material surface. It's amazing!

Weiwei posted @ 10:08:54 || Cambridge, MA || Comments (0)

Do We Need to Live With Soul? [Thoughtful]

I remember a conversation in Sex and the City, when Carrie was dating a man who worked on documentary film of seagulls and then switched to money hunting in Manhattan. "So what about the seagulls?" Carrie asked. The guy answered "...f**k the seagulls...". It's not supprising to learn living with soul in Oprah show but I am so supprised to find out this morning that even Murray show starts to talk about how to live with a soul by telling you the story of people who came across the tragedy.

Recently I have many friends who are looking for jobs. Every of them has a unique story. I am also spending a lot of time, trying to figure out what I am going to do in the future. When people are trying so hard to look for the next step in their life, what exactly do they want to achieve?

Weiwei posted @ 09:27:50 || Cambridge, MA || Comments (0)