Professor Life 575

Recently tenured professor at a small LAC. Hates puns.

[Professor Life 575 @Haiku_Prof]

The best advice I
never got was to always
clamp the laser first

[Professor Life 575 @Haiku_Prof]

Physicists argue
trivial matters to be 
right about something

[Professor Life 575 @Haiku_Prof]

Competing, proving,
posturing, and displaying.
Masculine science.

[Professor Life 575 @Haiku_Prof]

They can smile and smile
as they just follow the rules
Faculty handbook

[Professor Life 575 @Haiku_Prof]

Transcendent joy with
my two babies' belly laughs
tickling Papa

[Professor Life 575 @Haiku_Prof]

Dang it.
*are* #optical tweets

[Professor Life 575 @Haiku_Prof]

#ultrafast pulses 
each unique with its own chirp
#optical tweets

[Professor Life 575 @Haiku_Prof]

Flashes in sapphire
A spontaneous lens is
Both cause and effect

[Professor Life 575 @Haiku_Prof]

Students so eager
Without my old resentments
Science pure again

[Professor Life 575 @Haiku_Prof]

Microaggressions
wear me down but they also
sharpen my edges

[Professor Life 575 @Haiku_Prof]

Who can't imagine
quantum foam has never seen
a preschool classroom

[Professor Life 575 @Haiku_Prof]

Equity is not 
the same thing as fairness but
smart people forget

[Professor Life 575 @Haiku_Prof]

"How much is this worth?"
Let me invite you to please
read the syllabus

[Professor Life 575 @Haiku_Prof]

Entangled photons
dance together until we
collapse the music

[Professor Life 575 @Haiku_Prof]

Another workshop
on active learning is best
told through PowerPoint

[Professor Life 575 @Haiku_Prof]

Academia:
A pie-eating contest where
the prize is more pie