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Josef Felver

I sit here now with a bag, a notebook full of lectures on physics and diagrams from my efforts in the JRM and two forks that were recently given to me by a friend who has just left KSU. I don't know that I can sum it up any better than that. To give you the vitals I'm a senior at Southwestern College in Winfield KS. I love to play sports particularly racquetball and tennis but I'm not opposed to a good game of basketball ether.

It's hard to say what really started me down the road to a physics degree. I've always enjoyed space and science, but when I was choosing a course of study my freshman year Dr. Bob Gallup talked to me about the possibilities in physics. I've always loved a good challenge and when he confessed to me that it was a wide spread opinion that physics was the hardest of all the sciences I couldn't resist looking a little deeper. Though I don't want to downplay the difficulty or importance of other scientific fields I think that the combination between innovative thinking and mathematical computation needed in physics was a great challenge for me to dig my hands in. Learning the way the world works on the physical level has opened my eyes to everyday miracles that are so extraordinary I don't know how I missed so many of them before. Having these realizations has made me want to continue my learning process into graduate school where I want to do research in alternate energy sources. But I think the real tipping point was the hope that one day I too could wear one of those spiffy white lab coats, and to be honest that is my only regret with the program here at KSU.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, man if I had only known that in high school my English teacher would have been quite frustrated with me.

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Here are some of the fun times I've had learning about Physics.